
Jean Shrimpton
Acting
Biography
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born November 7, 1942) is an British fashion model and actress. She was an icon of the Swinging Sixties and is considered to be one of the world's first supermodels.
Known For

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
What's My Line?

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
The Dick Cavett Show

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
World in Action

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.
My Generation

Tells the story of the photographers who cemented the image of swinging London and who, through their pictures, irreversibly altered the face of fashion and pop.
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up

Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter, receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie, is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.
Privilege

Mia and Roman is a 1968 23-minute documentary film which was shot during the making of Rosemary's Baby.
Mia and Roman

One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or other that runs, mercifully, for 58 minutes and comes from an English group of movie folk called the Tattooists. The second visitor to the animal abattoir is a pretty girl. The third is a porky, middle-aged man addicted to the expression, "Ya know?" The two men carry on a running argument about whether they should make a picture about pigs. "Are we making a movie, ya know?" says Fatso. "Where is it, ya know?" Then a bit later: "I'm making a movie about pigs, ya know?"
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

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The Evolution of the Supermodel

Whimsical portrait of photographer and designer Cecil Beaton during a photo session with David Bailey.
Beaton by Bailey

The life of the world’s top model Jean Shrimpton and her svengali photographer David Bailey.
The Face on the Cover

Cooking is a kind of loving, features Jean Shrimpton