Lauren Hutton is an American model and actress. She is best known for her starring roles in the movies American Gigolo and Lassiter, and also for her fashion modeling career. Hutton was born Mary Laurence Hutton in Charleston, South Carolina. Known as Mary Hall in high school, she graduated from Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Florida in 1961. She was among the first students to attend the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1960, but she later transferred to Tulane University, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1964. Hutton was a Playboy Bunny at age 20. The... statuesque Hutton became a top fashion model, cover girl and commercial spokesperson. Though advised to correct the slight gap in her teeth, she retained this 'imperfection,' which gave her on-camera persona a down-home sensibility that other, "more ethereal models lacked." In her heyday, Hutton was known as "the fresh American face of fashion." In 1974, Hutton signed a million-dollar contract as the face of Revlon cosmetics. At age 40, Hutton was fired by Revlon, but made an unprecedented comeback as a model several years later.
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