Susan Bottomly

Susan Dunn Whittier Bottomly (born October 1, 1950), also known as International Velvet, is a former American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in several of Andy Warhol's underground films.

Susan Bottomly
BornOctober 1, 1950
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Other namesInternational Velvet
OccupationActress, model

Early life and career

Born in Boston, Bottomly is the daughter of John Bottomly, a lawyer who prosecuted the Boston Strangler. At the age of 16, she began modeling with the Ford Agency and appeared on the cover of Mademoiselle magazine. The following year Bottomly met poet and Factory regular Gerard Malanga who introduced her to Warhol. After appearing in a Screen Test, Bottomly was renamed International Velvet and went on to appear in Since (1966), Superboy (1966), Chelsea Girls (1966), **** (The 24 Hour Movie) (1967), and Midnight Cowboy (1969).[1]

She was, in Warhol's words, "very beautiful".[2] A tall, long-necked brunette with graceful physicality, she impressed the artist deeply. She worked diligently on her personal cosmetics regimen, a process which Warhol observed with fascination: "Watching someone like Susan Bottomly, who had such perfect, full, fine features, doing all this on her face was like watching a beautiful statue painting itself."[2]

References
  1. Watson, Steven (October 1, 2003). Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties (1 ed.). Pantheon. pp. 282–283. ISBN 0-679-42372-9.
  2. Andy Warhol; Pat Hackett (8 September 2006). POPism: the Warhol sixties. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 220–221. ISBN 978-0-15-603111-0. Retrieved 15 January 2012.


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