- Cathee Dahmen
Cathee Dahmen (
September 16 1945 –Nov 25 1997 ) was a popular and successful supermodel in the 1960s and 1970s.She was half German, half native American
Chippewa , and was born and raised in Minnesota.Dahmen was discovered in her late teens by an illustrator for The
New York Times ,Antonio Lopez , who introduced her to the fashion world in New York City. Cathee Dahmen worked forFord Models , in New York during her peak years in the late 1960s, where she was one of Eileen Ford's top earners. After marrying British actorLeonard Whiting , she moved to London where she continued modeling for the Models One agency. In the late 1970s she divorced Whiting, and married again, to singerAlan Merrill , moving to New York. She had four children.Dahmen retired from modeling in 1980 and died of
emphysema in 1997.References
External links
* [http://groups.msn.com/MiniMadMod60s/catheedahmen.msnw?Page=1 Cathee Dahmen photo gallery]
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