Martha Longley

[BlueAcadia]

American Martha Longley is a former top international fashion and beauty model that worked professionally during the 1970s-1980s and was represented by Ford (New York), Karins (Paris) and Nina Blanchard (Los Angeles). She was one of the recognizable faces of Cover Girl cosmetics and she became an actress and is known for known for Simon & Simon (1981), L.A. Law (1986) and California Girls (1985).

"Martha Longley was a fairly ubiquitous presence in fashion editorials and beauty ads in the late seventies and the eighties. She didn't quite become a household name on the level of Carol Alt or Christie Brinkley, though. It may have been because her "all-American" look became less of an asset as time went on and as modeling clients sought women with more "exotic" looks." Ironically, she got her start with the Karins agency in Paris. Martha Longley also tried her hand at acting. She appeared in the 1985 TV movie "California Girls" about a New Jersey auto mechanic (played by Robby Benson) who goes to the Golden State and woos a bikini model there (played by our heroine) while trying to get away from his overbearing mother. But it couldn't have been as entertaining as the real-life story of Bruce Springsteen marrying Julianne Phillips that same year, to the chagrin of his overbearing fans back home in New Jersey.

- Excerpt from Pictures of Beautiful Women Blog (link below)


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Additional links about Martha:
https://www.modelscomposites.com/getlist.php?list=wld&choice=Martha+Longley&year=all&id=
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519364/
http://picturesofbeautifulwomen.blogspot.com/2012/02/modelactress-martha-longley.html

From Peter Marlowe Composites:


 

 

[Jim T]

1987 Cover Girl "Extremely Gentle" mascara ad starring Martha Longley:

 

[RocketQueen]

Cover Girl 1984

Photographer: unknown

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[RocketQueen]

Cover Girl, unknown year

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[RocketQueen]

Ellen Tracy 1985

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Vogue US archive

 

 

[RocketQueen]

Jacobson's 1986

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Vogue US archive

 

[RocketQueen]

Maybelline 1984

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Vogue US archive

 

[RocketQueen]

PPC 1985

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[RocketQueen]

Pure Wool, unknown year

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[RocketQueen]

Russ 1985

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Vogue US archive

 

[RocketQueen]

GRAZIA IT, 28 Jan 1979

Photographer: unknown

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[RocketQueen]

I guess VOGUE US? Does anyone know which year? Two pages not from Vogue.

 

 

 

  

[Jim T]

4 hours ago, RocketQueen said:

I guess VOGUE US? Does anyone know which year? Two pages not from Vogue.

  

I think all of those pages were from Glamour (USA), probably in the early 1980s.

[Jim T]

In the opening 45-seconds of this clip from "California Girls" (1985), Martha Longley is the "California Dreams" cosmetics model whose commercial entices Robby Benson into booking a vacation to California.

 

 

[BlueAcadia]

5 hours ago, RocketQueen said:

I guess VOGUE US? Does anyone know which year? Two pages not from Vogue.

Yep for sure Glamour US- about 1982-83ish...

[BlueAcadia]

@RocketQueen!!! I didn't know you had so much! Yay her thread looks good now! 

[RocketQueen]

2 hours ago, Jim T said:

I think all of those pages were from Glamour (USA), probably in the early 1980s.

 

Thanks for the info!

[missparker7]

cover Chadwick´s of Boston Summer 1985 U.S. catalog

 

[Jim T]

On 7/17/2021 at 9:59 AM, missparker7 said:

cover Chadwick´s of Boston Summer 1985 U.S. catalog

 

 

Thanks -- Martha Longley could be considered the Chadwick's of Boston "featured catalog model" circa 1985 - 1987.

[RocketQueen]

"key pieces"

VOGUE AUS, Aug 1984

Photographer: Richard Bailey

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