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Berry Berenson: Elsa Schiaparelli
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Berinthia, as Berry was born to the late diplomat Robert Berenson and Gogo Schiaparelli, studied "needlepoint and geography" at boarding schools in England, Switzerland and France. "She speaks five languages," Tony beams. She wound up going to typing school. Her photography ambitions were initially blocked by professional sexism until Lord Lichfield, made her his protegee ( "I became his slave," she says). Berry was ... set back by her own insecurity. When asked to substitute for Marisa on the runway at a Manhattan show, Berry replied, "Oh, no, I can't.You don't understand.
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Berenson's maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli,[5] and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.[6][7][8] Her younger sister, Berinthia, became the model, actress, and photographer Berry Berenson. She ... is a great-grand-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, a great-grand-niece of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959), and his sister Senda Berenson (1868 – 1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.[9]
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With Elsa Schiaparelli as their grandmother, both sisters Berry and Marisa Berenson had style in their veins—the former becoming a fashion photographer and the latter a model and actress. This photograph of Marisa, wearing a Madame de C. headband made of sailor's rope and polished stones, which appeared in the January 15, 1970, Vogue, was shot by Berry in Saint-Tropez.
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Berenson ist die Enkelin der Modeschöpferin Elsa Schiaparelli und begann ihre Karriere in den 1960er Jahren als eines der bestverdienenden Models. Ihre schauspielerischen Erfolge hatte sie sämtlich Anfang der 1970er Jahre. Ihr Debüt gab sie in Luchino Viscontis Tod in Venedig 1971. Sie spielte in diesem Film Frau von Aschenbach, Ehefrau von Dirk Bogarde. Außerdem spielte sie in Bob Fosses Cabaret neben Liza Minnelli und unter der Regie von Stanley Kubrick die weibliche Hauptrolle in Barry Lyndon. Für ihre Rolle in Cabaret wurde sie für den Golden Globe als beste Nebendarstellerin nominiert.
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