Brooke Shields Career
The career of Brooke Shields begins when she was only 11 months, when she appears with her mother on numerous reviews for a publicity of the Ivory, Snow Baby, products for the personal hygiene and in photographed publicity then television from Richard Avedon for Colgate and Charles Sheldon like Breck girl for the Breck shampoo. At 11 years old she was the young model of the famous Ford agency of New York. At 14 years old she was considered already a star between the young models appearing on the cover of beyond 300 reviews between which famous the Vogue and Cosmopolitan.
The film that made her a celebrity was without a doubt Blue Lagoon of 1980, that it included a scene of knot with then the adolescent Christopher Atkins on the desert island (Shields more late testified in front of the Court for the inquiry of the USA that was used a in these scenes); discreet happening had also the escape of the film Love without end of 1981.
At 16 years old Brooke Shields was between the best known faces in the world thanks to the twofold career of model from the provoking and young fascination controversial actress. The Time magazine, 9 February 1981, published the every day gain of Brooke: 10,000 dollars.
In 1983 Brooke Shields appeared on the cover of september of Paris VOGUE, in October and November on American VOGUE and to December on the Italian edition. She appeared on TV on a commercial for the Calvin Klein jeans.
From 1981 to 1984 Brooke Shields was rewarded with the People's Choice Award for best actress.
She set aside the cinematographic career in order to graduate the Princeton University in French literature. Her thesis was entitled the initiation: from innocence to the experience: the travel of the adolescence in the film of Luois Malle, Pretty baby and Lacombe Lucien. It was to Princeton that spoke about her sexuality and made part of the CAP and Gown Club.
Shields appeared in various tv shows, most successful of which was revealed to be the sitcom of the NBC Susan in which the prize People's Choice in the category was protagonist from 1996 to 2000 gaining in 1997 favorite feminine Artist in the new television series.
Shields participated to multiple productions, above all musical revivals, like Grease, Cabaret, Wonderful Town and Chicago to Broadway and the London's West End. Show participated many times over also to that '70s: it interpreted mrs. Burkhart, the mother of Jackie (Thousands Kunis).
Shields recorded for the Sony/BMG the narration of Runaway Bunny, a concert for the orchestra of Glen Roven, executed from the Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira.
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