Talitha Getty (née Talitha Dina Pol) (October 18, 1940-July 14, 1971) was an actress, of Dutch parents, regarded, to some extent in retrospect, as a style icon of the late 1960s. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Background and early years 2 Early beauty and powerful effect on men 2.1 Pol and Rudolf Nureyev 3 Film career 4 John Paul Getty and the Swinging Sixties 5 Marrakesh 5.1 "Beautiful and damned" 6 Death 7 Note on images 8 References 9 External links

Background and early years

Talitha Pol was born in Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), on October 18, 1940. Java (Jawa is an Island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city Jakarta. The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Her father Willem Jilts Pol (1905-88) was a painter who subsequently married Poppet John (1912-97), daughter of the painter Augustus John (1878-1961), a pivotal figure in the world of "Bohemian" culture and fashion. Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 &ndash 31 October 1961 was a Welsh painter draughtsman, and Etcher. See also Bohemianism In modern usage the term " Bohemian " (sometimes shortened to "boho" is applied to people who live unconventional usually artistic She was thus the step-granddaughter of both Augustus John and his muse and second wife, Dorothy "Dorelia" McNeil (1881-1969), who was a fashion icon in the early years of the 20th century. In Greek mythology, the Muses ( Ancient Greek, hai moũsai: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root * men- "think" are

Pol spend her early years, during the Second World War, with her mother, born Arnoldine Adriana Mees, in a Japanese prison camp. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Her father was interned in a separate camp and her parents went their own ways after the war, Pol moving to Britain with her mother, who died in 1948.

Early beauty and powerful effect on men

Pol studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is generally regarded as one of the most prestigious Drama schools in the world Writer and journalist Jonathan Meades, who was at RADA several years later, recalled that, after first coming to London in 1964, he saw Pol with her stepmother at Seal House, Holland Park (home of Poppet John's sister, Vivien). Jonathan (Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947, Salisbury, England) is a British writer on food Architecture, and Holland Park is a district and a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London in England. Meades thought her "the most beautiful young woman I had ever seen . . . I gaped, unable to dissemble my amazement" ^[1].

In 1988 a former Labour Member of the British Parliament Woodrow, Lord Wyatt recalled, with reference to the "success with women" of Anthony, Lord Lambton, former Conservative Government Minister, that

there was that Talitha Pol who was very pretty and had a little starlet job in Yugoslavia; and he went and stayed at the hotel and sent her huge bunches of flowers about every two hours and showered her with presents ^[2]. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Woodrow Lyle Wyatt Baron Wyatt of Weeford ( 4 July 1918 &ndash 7 December 1997) was a British Labour Party Politician Antony Claud Frederick Lambton (10 July 1922 &ndash 30 December 2006 briefly 6th Earl of Durham, styled before 1970 as Viscount Lambton, and widely known as "Lord The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian

Pol and Rudolf Nureyev

Another to come under Pol's spell was the dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who first met her at a party in 1965. Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev ( Tatar: Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev, Russian: Рудольф Хаметович Нуриев According to Nureyev's biographer, Julie Kavanagh, the two were in thrall to each other, to the extent that Nureyev "had never felt so erotically stirred by a woman" and told several friends that he wished to marry Pol ^[3]. In the event, Nureyev was unable to attend a dinner party given by Claus von Bülow, at which he and Pol were to have been seated next to each other, and so Bülow invited instead John Paul Getty, son of his employer, the oil tycoon Paul Getty. Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg on August 11, 1926, in Copenhagen Denmark) is a British socialite of German and Danish Sir John Paul Getty, KBE ( September 7, 1932 &ndash April 17, 2003) was a wealthy American-born British Sir John Paul Getty, KBE ( September 7, 1932 &ndash April 17, 2003) was a wealthy American-born British Pol and Getty Jr forged a relationship that led to their marriage in 1966.

Film career

As an actress, Pol appeared in several films, including Village of Daughters (1962) (as a daughter, Gioia Spartaco); an Edgar Wallace mystery, We Shall See (1964) (as Jirina); The System (1964) (as Helga); Return from the Ashes (1965) (as Claudine, alongside Maximilian Schell, Ingrid Thulin and Samantha Eggar); and Barbarella (1968), a sexually charged science-fiction fantasy starring Jane Fonda, in which she had the minor uncredited role of a girl smoking a pipe. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace ( April 1, 1875 &ndash February 10, 1932) was a prolific British Crime writer, Journalist Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930) is an Academy Award -winning Austrian Actor. Ingrid Thulin (ˈɪŋrɪd tɵˈliːn in Swedish ( 27 January 1926 &ndash 7 January 2004) was a Swedish actress Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (born 5 March 1939 in Hampstead, London) is an Academy Award -nominated Barbarella is a 1968 erotic sci-fi film directed by Roger Vadim and based on the French Barbarella comics Jane Fonda (born December 21 1937 is an American Academy Award winning Actress, Writer, political activist, former Fashion

John Paul Getty and the Swinging Sixties

Pol became the second wife of John Paul Getty (1932-2003) on 10 December 1966. She was married in a white mini-skirt, trimmed with mink ^[4]. The miniskirt (often hyphenated as mini-skirt) is a Skirt with There are two living species of " mink," the American Mink and the European Mink. The Gettys became part of "Swinging" London's fashionable scene, becoming friends with, among others, singers Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, and his girl-friend Marianne Faithfull. Swinging London is a catchall term applied to a variety of dynamic cultural trends in the United Kingdom (centred in London) in the second half of the 1960s Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, Kt (born 26 July 1943 is a Golden Globe -winning and two-time Grammy -winning English rock Marianne Faithfull (born December 29 1946) is an English Singer, Songwriter, actress and Diarist whose Faithfull has recounted her apprehension, through "ingrained agoraphobia", about an invitation to spend five weeks with the Gettys in Morocco ("but for Mick this is an essential part of his life") and how, after splitting from Jagger, she took up with Talitha Getty's lover, Jean de Breteuil, a French aristocrat who allegedly supplied drugs to rock stars such as Jim Morrison of the Doors ^[5]. Agoraphobia is an Anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a Panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape Morocco (المغرب "al-Maghrib" officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية is a country located in North Africa James Douglas Morrison (December 8 1943—July 3 1971 was an American Poet, Singer, Songwriter, Writer, and Film director This article is about the band For their self-titled debut album see The Doors (album; for the Oliver Stone film see The Doors (film; for Doors in computing

Print designer Celia Birtwell, who married designer Ossie Clark, recalled Talitha Getty as one of a number of "beautiful people" who crossed her threshold in the late 1960s:

Jimi Hendrix [the rock guitarist] lived with Ossie and me for a while. Celia Birtwell is a Textile designer. Born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1941 she studied Textile Design in Manchester, where in 1959 Raymond "Ossie" Clark ( 9 June 1942 – 6 August 1996) was an English James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter I quite liked Jimi but at 2am it was a bit much. We’d get transient people coming by, especially girls who wanted to hook up with Jimi. I met a lot of exciting, beautiful people, such as Talitha Getty. I was quite a homebody, whereas Ossie was a party person, so when he got bored with people he would palm them off on me, and send them round to tea. ^[6]

John Paul Getty, who has been described as "a swinging playboy who drove fast cars, drank heavily, experimented with drugs and squired raunchy starlets" ^[7], eschewed the family business, Getty Oil, during this period, much to the chagrin of his father. However, in later years, he became a major philanthropist and (as a US citizen) received an honorary British knighthood in 1986. His luxury yacht, built in 1927 and renovated in 1994, was the MY Talitha G.

In 1968 the Gettys had a son, Tara Gabriel Gramophone Galaxy, who became a noted ecological conservationist in Africa.

Marrakesh

Talitha Getty is probably best remembered for an iconic photograph [1] taken on a roof-top in Marrakesh, Morocco in January 1969 by Patrick Lichfield (1939-2005) ^[8]. Marrakesh or Marrakech ( Amazigh: Murakush, Arabic مراكش Murrakush) known as the "Red City" Thomas Patrick John Anson 5th Earl of Lichfield ( 25 April 1939 &ndash 11 November 2005) was an English Photographer and With her hooded husband in the background, this image (now part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London) portrayed her in a slightly anxious, crouching pose, wearing a multi-coloured kaftan, white harem pants and white and cream boots. A kaftan (sometimes spelled caftan from Persian خفتان) is a man's cotton or silk cloak buttoned down the front with full sleeves reaching to HAREM is the first evaluation contest of Named entity recognition (NER for Portuguese and its call for participation was announced in September 2004 It seemed stylishly to typify the hippie fashion of the time and became a model over the years for what, more recently, has been referred to variously as "hippie chic", "boho-chic" and even "Talitha Getty chic" ^[9]. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world See also List of chics. Chic is an element of fashion and the counterpart of posh. Boho-chic is a style of female Fashion drawing on various bohemian and Hippie influences that at its height in 2004-5 was associated particularly with Although, in her lifetime, Talitha Getty, who was only thirty when she died, was not much known to a wider public, fashion gurus of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have often written of her and Marrakesh (a major destination for hippies in the late 1960s ^[10], as illustrated by the song, Marrakesh Express (1969) by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) as vitually synonymous. " Marrakesh Express " is a popular song by Crosby Stills and Nash, released on their 1969 self-titled debut album. Crosby Stills & Nash ( CSN) is a Folk rock / rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash The very mention of her name has been taken to suggest a particular "look" and style.

"Beautiful and damned"

The couturier Yves Saint Laurent was part of the same "in crowd" as Talitha Getty and she was an early muse of his. Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent ( August 1 1936 &ndash June 1 2008) was an Algerian In a widely quoted paean of 1984 to the "youthfulness" of the 1960s, he invoked the title of a 1922 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald ^[11] to describe the Gettys as

lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24 1896 – December 21 1940 was an American writer of Novels and Short stories, whose works are evocative of the

Another friend and leading fashion designer, Diane von Fürstenberg, recalled Talitha Getty dancing under the stars ^[12]. Diane von Fürstenberg (born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin on December 31 1946, Brussels Belgium) is a Fashion designer best One of von Fürstenberg's granddaughters, born in 1999, was named Talitha ^[13].

Death

Talitha Getty died of a heroin overdose in Rome, Italy on July 14, 1971. Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. She died within the same twelve month period as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, other cultural icons of the 1960s, and four months before Edie Sedgwick. Janis Lyn Joplin ( January 19, 1943  – October 4, 1970) was an American singer songwriter and music arranger from Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick ( April 20, 1943 &ndash November 16, 1971) was an American actress Socialite

His wife's death marked the end of John Paul Getty's period of hedonism and its circumstances initially drove him to ground in England. He remained reclusive for several years, being described by the critic Kenneth Tynan as the "Hermit Millionaire" ^[14]. Kenneth Peacock Tynan ( 2 April 1927 - 26 July 1980) was an influential and often controversial British Theatre Critic His rehabilitation was assisted by a growing passion for cricket, which was nurtured by, among others, Mick Jagger and a former England captain and future MCC President, Gubby Allen, whom he met in the London Clinic during a long period of illness ^[15]. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC is a private members' club founded in 1787 Sir George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen, CBE ( 31 July 1902 &mdash 29 November 1989) was a Cricketer who

Note on images

For someone who has acquired iconic status in the world of fashion and as an examplar of the 1960s, images of Talitha Getty have been rather elusive. The Marrakesh photograph was published in Lichfield's 1981 collection of beautiful women ^[16] and has re-appeared from time to time in newspapers and magazines: for example, with the Daily Telegraph's obituary of John Paul Getty on 18 April 2003, in French Vogue in February 2004 ^[17] and in a Times feature on November 2, 2006 marking the ninetieth anniversary of Vogue. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. In the latter, the newspaper's fashion editor, Lisa Armstrong, referred to the image as "typif[ying] the luxe bohemian look". Luxe Grunge (also known as Boho-chic or "luxe bohemian") is a chicer updated Grunge /boho collection an unkempt approach to wardrobe (a la Olsen twins The website of the National Portrait Gallery refers to the technical features of the photograph and its source, but alongside a blank space. A version of Armstrong's article appeared in the December 2006 edition of Vogue itself, illustrated by a slightly hazy photograph of Getty in a different bohemian outfit on London's Albert Bridge.

There are some black and white photographs of the Gettys, held by Getty images, some of which can be found on the Internet, and some group shots taken off-screen during the filming of Barbarella. A naked shot of her in Barbarella, partly covered by a long flowing headdress, appeared in Sunday Times on September 16, 2007, alongside revelations about her relationship with Rudolf Nureyev. Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The latter piece was headed, "Talitha, the 'hippie de luxe' Nureyev wanted to marry". A photograph of Getty with her infant son, taken in June 1968, was reproduced in the Times Magazine on November 11, 2006. Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

References

External links

• Talitha Getty. This site reproduces the Marrakesh photograph, as well as a number of black and white images. Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. It is accompanied by text from Wikipedia.

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