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A small role in a film first drew Susanna Moore to Los Angeles; script reading for Warren Beatty and the seductive outdoor life kept her there.
Like many other young women, I arrived in Los Angeles by way of the movies. I had been living in Chicago, where I was a model at the A-Plus Agency. Victor Skrebneski and other photographers took my picture for ads in the newspaper and for catalogs, and I marched up and down a runway in department-store shows. In the fall of 1967, I met the designer Oleg Cassini, who was in town to sell his collection of resortwear at Saks Fifth Avenue. The clothes, heavily influenced by Emilio Pucci, were in clinging jersey of swirling ...