“Jeunesse Doree” (1934) by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, from the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia.
Dorette, above (and below), claims that the artist asked her to pluck out her eyebrows so he could “draw them on, one by one, to make the line he most wanted.” Five years later, Dorette and Brockhurst married; but “disputes and unhappy differences” would lead to a legal separation.
Dorette went back to using her birth name of Kathleen and told the media: “I don’t think I had a personality of my own, or if I had, I did not know what it was. I was simply material.”
(From The Eternal Masquerade exhibition catalogue, Georgia Museum of Art)
