Dorothy McGowan is a Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, New York

New York

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-born former model

Model (person)

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 and actress. She was discovered as a talent agent

Talent agent

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 picked her out of a crowd of Beatles fans at Kennedy Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport

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.

Her sole screen credit is for the 1966 French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 film Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, in which she had the starring role of a supermodel.

As a model McGowan appeared on countless covers of Vogue

Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...

, Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar

Harper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...

, Elle

Elle (magazine)

Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...

, Glamour

Glamour (magazine)

Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....

, and other publications in the 1960s. She was photographed by Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...

, Irving Penn

Irving Penn

Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography.-Early career:Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art from which he was graduated in 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he...

, Melvin Sokolsky

Melvin Sokolsky

Melvin Sokolsky is an American photographer and film director.Born in New York City, Sokolsky had no formal training in photography, but started to use his father's box camera at about the age of ten. Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own...

, Francesco Scavullo

Francesco Scavullo

Francesco Scavullo was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.-Biography:...

, and others.

A daughter of Irish immigrants Sarah and Michael McGowan and born in the Bay Ridge

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

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 section of Brooklyn, she had one sister, Mary, and two brothers, Peter (1930–2007), a policeman who became a Roman Catholic priest,http://www.klyneesopusmuseum.org/memorium.html and James, a policeman whose role as lead negotiator in a hostage crisis was dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penny Allen, James Broderick, and Carol Kane. The title refers to the "dog days of summer".The film was...

.http://www.klyneesopusmuseum.org/memorium.html

McGowan was one of photographer William Klein

William Klein

William Klein is a photographer and filmmaker noted to for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography...

's favorite models. After the release of his film Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again, according to Klein.

She was married to and divorced from photographer Didier Dorot,http://www.didierdorot.com with whom she has two children, Damien and Juliet.

Dorothy Dorot now lives in Mamaroneck, New York

Mamaroneck (village), New York

Mamaroneck is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 18,929 at the 2010 census. It is located partially within the town of Mamaroneck and partially within the town of Rye. The portion in Rye is unofficially called "Rye Neck"...

.http://www.klyneesopusmuseum.org/memorium.html

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