John Robert Powers Models

John Robert Power modeling agency was the best known agency of that time - the Powers girls were considered the most beautiful women in the US. Let's go and explore all the lovely gals who served as Powers models!

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Adelle August, a fresh faced 1950s Powers model who married a tobacco magnate after a brief movie career. 

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Betty Furness, a 1930s Powers girl who later dated Cary Grant and became a celebrity on early TV, and later a politician dabbling in consumer affairs. Interesting woman!  

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Anne Jeffreys

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Dorothy Patrick, a Powers model who became familiar to millions as the Chesterfield Girl, and had a minor if solid Hollywood career.

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Actress and one time 1940s Powers model Rebel Randall, an interesting woman with some unusual, to put it mildly, opinions. Read more on Western Clippings and judge for yourself: http://www.westernclippings.com/interview/rebelrandall_interview.shtml

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Eileen Grubb, a Powers model and mother of 9 children

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Elaine Edwards, early 1950s Powers model, had a brief career as a horror movie heroine, and later devoted her life to spiritualism. 

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Ramsay Ames, Powers girl in the late 1930s. She became queen of the Bs in Hollywood, headed her own rumba band, and lived for years in Spain. Interesting woman! Read more about her here: https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/ramsay-ames/

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Stunning Selene Walters, one of the few John Powers model from the 1940s still alive today. Learn more about her at this link: https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/selene-walters

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An article about Inez Horton Gay, a Powers model in the 1940s. We’ll learn more about her soon! 

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Marie McDonald left school to become a Powers girl in 1938 - she only 16 years old. After an abysmal Hollywood career, marred by much negative publicity and a string of unhappy marriages, she died by suicide in 1965. What a waste of this beautiful woman! 

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Joanne Dru, incredibly beautiful Powers model from the eary 1940s, who became a repscted Broadway and Hollywood actress, acting opposite major stars like John Wayne, Tony Curtis and Dan Dailey. Among her four husbands were singer Dick Haymes and actor John Ireland. 

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Janis Carter, one of the original 10 Powers models from the late 1930s, became one of the most ruthless, cunning femme fatales in film noir. She married plumbing magnate Jullius Stulman and lived an active life, dividing her time between New York, North Carolina and Florida.   

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Another Powers girl who became a semi succesful actress, Adele Jergens! 

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Marguerite Chapman, a Powers girl in the 1940s, had some success in Hollywood. Learn more about her on the fabulous Glamorous girls of the silver screen page (http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/43/Marguerite+Chapman/register.php)

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Statuesque Acquanetta was a Powers model in the 1940s. She had quite a life, so we will learn more about her in future posts!  

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Elizabeth “Libby” Harben was born on  May 17, 1913 in New York. Her father was the noted writer William Harben. She grew up in New York and after graduating from high school worked as a secretary to an executive of a large corporation, then got into modeling. She signed with John Robert Powers in about 1935. By 1938, she was a well known urbane model. She appeared in one movie but was not interested in a movie career. She married William S, Cox and gave up modeling to raise a family. The Coxes moved to Connecticut and had three children: William Jr., Barbara and Bonsai. Libby died at the ripe old age of 95 in 2008.