Josephine Norman — The Magazine-Cover Girl (1925) 🇺🇸

The face that you have seen upon the covers of many magazines, admiring no doubt its lovely contours, is taking on an identity, now that Josephine Norman is acting in the movies.

“The skin that you love to touch,” with the added attractions of soft, brown hair and big, black eyes, won her countless calls to pose for such noted artists as Ben Ali Haggin, Ivan Olinsky, Howard Chandler Christy, and Neysa McMein. She also smiled from hundreds of billboards, advertising the merits of a popular soap. Perhaps you will recall some of the pictures of her you have seen when she appears before you on the screen.

The first six years of her life were spent in Vienna, Austria, whence her family emigrated to America. Her early education was in the public schools of New York City. While still in her teens her talent with oils won her a scholarship in the National Academy of Design.

She studied there for two years, and has the distinction of being one of the few girls who ever refused an opportunity to join the “Follies.” Modeling and giving riding instruction, with her art work, occupied her until pictures presented their attractions, Small rôles in a number of films preceded the De Mille [Cecil B. DeMille] contract which she recently signed.

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Photo by Edgar Scott Spargo

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, October 1925