Gunilla Knutsson is a Swedish model, actress and author. She was named Miss Sweden

Miss Sweden

Miss Sweden , is the title of the Swedish beauty pageant, which ran from 1949-2003, by the female magazine VeckoRevyn and production company Strix in partnership with MTG. The competition qualified delegates to the global contests Miss Universe and first runner ups to Miss World...

 during 1961 and was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe

Miss Universe

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 pageant during that same year.

She is most famous for a series of Noxzema

Noxzema

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  Medicated shaving cream

Shaving cream

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 commercials from 1967 - 1973 in which she urged men to "take it off, take it all off" (referring to facial hair). During 1973, she appeared with Joe Namath

Joe Namath

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 in such a commercial when he was the star quarterback

Quarterback

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 for the New York Jets

New York Jets

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 American football

American football

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 team. Gunilla Knutsson later became spokesperson and vice-president of sales for Rose Milk Skin Care Lotion.

A photograph of Gunilla Knutsson appeared on the cover of the December 11, 1970 issue of Life Magazine. This issue of Life magazine, with the caption 'Model Gunilla Knutson owns a health food store', featured a three page article entitled 'The Move To Eat Natural' with a photo of Gunilla Knutsson at her store Nature's Children, of which she was part owner.

In the 1990s, she worked as a wine taster for Sabrina Wine Importers and a gymnastic instructor at the Buckley Elementary School in Manhattan

Manhattan

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Selected works

• Beauty And Health The Scandinavian Way ( New York: Hawthorn Books. 1969)
• Gunilla Knutson's Book of Massage (St. Martin's Press. 1972)

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