LeJeune Hundley, Miss Cannes 1960. Hundley was a popular Ophelia DeVore model. I plucked this photo from my archives - but I’m almost sure I found it in a vintage issue of Jet.
Modeling pioneer Ophelia DeVore (right) with clients and friends (l-r) Joan Murry, Trudy Haynes, the Philadelphia news legend, actress and writer Ellen Holly and the great model Helen Williams. Photo via opheliadevore.com.
Cicely Tyson and modeling pioneer Ophelia DeVore disembarking from an airplane, probably in the early 1960s. Ms. Tyson, while doing a bit of modeling herself, trained models and actors at Ms. DeVore’s famous charm school. Photo via opheliadevore.com
Pioneering model and businesswoman Ophelia DeVore in the 1940s.
Ophelia DeVore as a model in the 1940s.
Ophelia DeVore, the pioneering former model who went on to open a legendary modeling agency and a school for people of color, on why she took her business international. The video is by the National Visionary Leadership Project which was co-founded by Camille Cosby and Renee Poussaint.
Models and actors who came through her school include Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson, Ellen Holly, Richard Roundtree
