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49-527: The magazine's style has not remained stagnant over the past 135 years. While the format in the mid-20th century still tended towards humorous, light pieces, the off-campus circulation was broader and the writing reflected it. In recent years, Tiger Magazine has moved to the internet, where it has begun to expand its topics to be more accessible to those outside of Princeton. Past editorial boards have occasionally published material sufficiently offensive as to spark controversy. Most famous among those controversies

98-549: A bachelor's degree in Romance languages . In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting and appeared in minor roles in films. She also starred in the NBC sitcoms Suddenly Susan (1996–2000), for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, and Lipstick Jungle (2008–2009). In 2017, Shields returned to NBC with a major recurring role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in

147-576: A lesbian , Lily, in The Misadventures of Margaret . In 2001, Lifetime aired the film What Makes a Family , starring Shields and Cherry Jones in a true story of a lesbian couple who fought the adoption laws of Florida . For four months, beginning July 2001, Shields portrayed Sally Bowles in the long-running Broadway revival of Cabaret . In 2004, Shields made several recurring guest appearances on That '70s Show playing Pam Burkhart, Jackie 's ( Mila Kunis ) mother, who later

196-421: A child "performer" rather than a model. In 1983, in the wake of the legal battle over ownership of the photos, artist Richard Prince photographed one of Gross' photos of the 10-year-old Shields standing naked in a bathtub. Prince had found the picture in a copy of Gross' self-published book Little Women onto Ektachrome slide film, then blew it up to 8x10 inch print. Put in a gold fame, a Prince reproduction of

245-442: A child named Violet who lived in a brothel, the daughter of a prostitute played by Susan Sarandon . There were numerous nude scenes in the film, including those in which Shields appeared naked. Her appearance in the film spurred significant controversy, as public worry regarding child sexual abuse had begun to rise at the time of its release. Gossip columnist Rona Barrett called the film " child pornography ", and director Malle

294-563: A featured celebrity in NBC 's genealogy documentary reality series, Who Do You Think You Are? , where it was revealed that, through her father's ancestry, she is the distant cousin (many generations removed) of King Louis XIV of France, and thus a descendant of both Saint Louis and Henry IV of France . Shields took over the role of Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical The Addams Family beginning on June 28, 2011. Starting in 2013, Shields has been an occasional guest co-host in

343-440: A guest appearance on Disney 's Hannah Montana , playing Susan Stewart, protagonist Miley Stewart 's ( Miley Cyrus ) mother, who died in 2004. In 2008, she returned in the prime time drama Lipstick Jungle . The series ended a year later. Starting in 2010, she made guest appearances on The Middle as the mother of a brood of terror-inducing children and the nemesis of Frankie Heck ( Patricia Heaton ). She also appeared as

392-454: A hope that the damned thing turned out all right. Get over it. Brenda Starr is not as bad as the also-rans that Hollywood traditionally dumps on us before Labor Day... it's a heap worse." Entertainment Weekly would later place the film on its list of "21 Worst Comic-Book Movies Ever". In 1993, Shields made a guest appearance in a fourth-season episode of The Simpsons , called " The Front ". The following year, she starred as Rizzo in

441-594: A lead in The Blue Lagoon (1980), which included nude scenes between teenage lovers stranded on a tropical island (Shields later testified before a U.S. Congressional inquiry that older body doubles were used in some of them). The same year, she was the youngest guest star to ever appear on The Muppet Show , in which she and the Muppets put on their own version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . She

490-434: A model when she was 11 months old in 1966. Her first job was for Ivory Soap , when she was photographed by Francesco Scavullo . She continued as a successful child model with model agent Eileen Ford , who, in her Lifetime biography, stated that she started her children's division just for Shields. Ford said of her: "She is a professional child and unique. She looks like an adult and thinks like one." After appearing in

539-528: A number of noble families from Italy, in particular from Genoa and Rome. These are namely (in chronological order of descent from 1355 to 1965) the Gattilusi - Palaiologos - Savoy , Grimaldi , Imperiali , Carafa , Doria , Doria-Pamphili-Landi , Chigi-Albani , and Torlonia dynasties. Her paternal grandmother was Italian noblewoman Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi , who was the daughter of an Italian prince and an American socialite . Her great-uncle

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588-625: A provocative fashion model and child actress. Time magazine reported in its February 9, 1981, cover story that her day rate as a model was $ 10,000 (equivalent to $ 28,000 in 2023 ). In 1983, Shields appeared on the cover of the September issue of Paris Vogue , the October and November issues of American Vogue and the December edition of Italian Vogue . During that period Shields became a regular at New York City's nightclub Studio 54 . In

637-555: A romantic lead in Sahara (1983) for a fee variously reported as $ 1 million or $ 1.5 million. Her mother Teri Shields was executive producer of the picture, with a fee of $ 25,000. The movie was a critical and financial failure, released only in the Western United States after poor previews and grossing $ 1.2 million against a budget of $ 15 million (equivalent to $ 40 million in 2023 ). For Sahara , Shields earned

686-675: A wax portrait of Marina Torlonia in 1935. Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi was married twice, her husbands being: Torlonia was the paternal grandmother of American actress Brooke Shields , the daughter of her son Francis Alexander Shields. Torlonia died on 15 September 1960, in an automobile accident in Piacenza, Italy, shortly after leaving the wedding of her nephew Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi , to princess Orsetta Caracciolo, niece of film director Luchino Visconti . Duke Raffaele Canevaro di Zoagli and his mother-in-law, Eleanor Terry, were also killed in

735-461: Is "A look at actor, model and icon Brooke Shields as she transforms from a sexualized young girl to a woman discovering her power." In 2024, Shields was elected the president of the Actors' Equity Association . Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (22 October 1916 – 15 September 1960) was an Italian-American aristocrat , best known as

784-623: Is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle 's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. She continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli 's Endless Love (1981). In 1983, Shields suspended her modeling career to attend Princeton University , where she subsequently graduated with

833-575: Is twelve. She poses nude. Teri is her mother. She thinks it's swell. Although the September 26, 1977 issue was listed in a 2008 collection of classic covers on the New York Magazine website for its 40th anniversary, unlike the other listed issues, there is no link to the cover story about Shields' career as a nude model. The 11-year-old Shields was cast as the lead in French director Louis Malle 's Pretty Baby (1978), in which she played

882-525: The Los Angeles Times wrote, " Brenda Starr (citywide) arrives after some five years of legal disputes over distribution rights. It would have been an act of kindness for all concerned, including the paying customer, to have left it on the shelf where it belongs." Peter Travers , writing for Rolling Stone , gave the film a negative review, writing, "There's been so much negative insider buzz about Brooke's 'Brenda' that you might be harboring

931-550: The 1974 TV adaptation of Arthur Miller 's play After the Fall , Shields made her feature film debut in the New Jersey -shot horror film Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), portraying a young girl who is murdered during her first communion. She was cast in the part after director Alfred Sole had seen her in a print advertisement for Vogue magazine. The film was later re-released in 1981, capitalizing on Shields's rising fame at

980-677: The People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Young Performer in four consecutive years from 1981 to 1984. During this same period, she starred in the USPHS PSA sponsored by the American Lung Association as an initiative that VIPs should become examples and advocates of non-smoking. By the age of 16, Shields had become one of the most recognizable faces in the United States, because of her dual career as

1029-481: The 1994 Broadway revival of Grease . In a 1996 episode of the popular comedy sitcom Friends , Shields played Joey Tribbiani 's stalker. This role led directly to her being cast in the title role of the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan , in which she starred from 1996 until 2000, and which earned a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series for her, in 1997, and two Golden Globe nominations. In 1998, she played

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1078-534: The 9:00 hour of Today on NBC. She also recurred during Season Nineteen of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sheila Porter, the maternal grandmother of Olivia Benson 's ( Mariska Hargitay ) adopted son, Noah Porter. Shields is the subject of the 2023 documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields , directed by Lana Wilson , who also directed the Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana . The two-part series, which aired on Hulu on 3 April 2023,

1127-683: The Gross photo was the sole work displayed in his first "Spiritual America" exhibition at store-front art gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Later, when a Prince print of Shields was included in his 2009 Spiritual America exhibit at the Tate Modern , it created a stir. It was removed from an exhibition after a warning from the police. Prince created a numbered series of 10 prints (and two artists proofs) measuring 20 inches by 24 inches (50.8 cm. x 60.9 cm.) of his reproduction of

1176-528: The Gross/Shields photo. In May 2014, copy #10 of Prince's reproduction of the Gross photo was auctioned off by Christie's , fetching a price of $ 3,973,000. The realized price was within Christie's pre-auction estimate of $ 3.4–4.5 million. In 2005, the 40-year-old Shields let Prince photograph her wearing a bikini in the same pose as the childhood nude photo, in front of a motorcycle. Shields played

1225-995: The charity fundraisers she was involved with include the American Auxiliary Hospital in Mougins , France , the Italian Welfare League , New York City Cancer Institute, the New York Diet Kitchen Association, the Babies Hospital of the City of New York, Soldiers and Sailors Club of New York, New York Exchange for Woman's Work, Woman's Auxiliary of the Osteopathic Clinic of New York, Goddard Neighborhood Centre, Children's Village at Dobbs Ferry , New York, among others. In 1936, Torlonia

1274-651: The distinction of being the only actress ever to win the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor . At the 1984 Razzies , she was nominated for both the Worst Actress Award and Worst Supporting Actor, as "Brooke Shields (with a moustache)". After making a minor appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan , Shields took a career hiatus to focus on her academic studies. She enrolled at Princeton University in

1323-482: The eponymous lead in the 1989 movie Brenda Starr , which had been shot in 1986 for an intended 1987 release but was held up for years over legal problems due to the rights to the comic strip and demands from Shields' mother that she receive top-billing in the picture, which co-starred Timothy Dalton . When the film was finally released in 1993, it was roasted by critics and bombed at the box office. Kevin Thomas in

1372-671: The fall of 1983 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1987. She was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the Cap and Gown Club . Her autobiography, On Your Own , was published in 1985. Her 1987 senior thesis was titled "The Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle , Pretty Baby and Lacombe Lucien ." Shields played

1421-432: The film a thumbs down. Siskel said, "Brooke Shields is not very interesting when she's on the screen," and called her a model "who just can't act." Siskel's newspaper review further stated that her part in the film had "no substance, and she is incapable of appearing fresh. It's a stilted, nervous performance from a teen-ager who has not had a single acting lesson and could use a dozen." Other movies Shields appeared in, in

1470-409: The headline "Brooke Shields, 12, stirs furor over child porn in films." She or her body double also appeared in a dorsal nude scene in the 1979 release Just You and Me, Kid , which co-starred George Burns . In the movie, Shields also appeared in a scene where she apparently is naked, covered only by a deflated car tire inner tube while lying in the trunk of Burns' vintage automobile. Shields also

1519-573: The mid-1980s, Shields began her support of the USO by touring with Bob Hope . From 1981 to 1983, Shields, her mother, photographer Garry Gross , and Playboy Press were involved in litigation in the New York City Courts over the rights to photographs her mother had signed away to Gross (when dealing with models who are minors, a parent or legal guardian must sign such a release form while other agreements are subject to negotiation). Gross

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1568-516: The most beautiful child and I'm going to help her with her career." Growing up, Shields took piano, ballet, and horse-riding lessons. Shields was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. For her confirmation at age 10, she took the name Camille , after Camillus de Lellis . While attending high school, she resided in Haworth, New Jersey . Shields has stated that her first encounter with

1617-559: The narration for the Sony/BMG recording of The Runaway Bunny , a concerto for violin, orchestra, and reader, by Glen Roven . It was performed by the Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira . In the late 2000s, Shields guest-starred on shows like FX 's Nip/Tuck and CBS 's Two and a Half Men . In 2005, Shields appeared in a second-season episode of HBO 's Entourage , entitled "Blue Balls Lagoon". In 2007, she made

1666-800: The paparazzi was in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria New York at the age of 12, stating that she "stood like a statue wondering why they were all hired to photograph me" and that she " debuted at the Waldorf." Shields attended the New Lincoln School until eighth grade. She graduated from the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey , in 1983. Shields began her career as

1715-666: The paternal grandmother of the actress and model Brooke Shields . Torlonia was born in Rome , at Palazzo Núñez-Torlonia , the youngest daughter of Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi and his American wife, Mary Elsie Moore , a daughter of Charles Arthur Moore, a hardware merchant from Connecticut . The Torlonia family gained its fortune in the administration of Vatican finances. She had three siblings: In February 1934, Torlonia had made her New York City debut . Torlonia enjoyed going to nightclubs and charity work, and in 1934 she led many charity fundraising efforts. Some of

1764-702: The role, but wrote that she fell short of Donna Murphy's "perfection." In April 2005, Shields played Roxie Hart in a long-running production of Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End. Later the same year, she reprised the role in the Broadway revival, from September 9 to October 30. This made her the first performer to have starred in Chicago , Cabaret , and Grease on Broadway, three long-running revivals noted for " stunt casting " of celebrities not known for musical theatre. Shields recorded

1813-687: The show's 19th season. Shields voiced Beverly Goodman in the Adult Swim animated series Mr. Pickles (2014–2019) and its spin-off Momma Named Me Sheriff . Shields was born in Manhattan , New York City, on May 31, 1965, the daughter of actress and model Teri Shields ( née Schmon) and businessman Francis Alexander Shields . Her mother was of English, German, Scotch-Irish , and Welsh descent, while her father had English, French, Irish, and Italian ancestry. According to research by William Addams Reitwiesner , Shields has ancestral links with

1862-406: The time. Next, Shields worked with director Woody Allen in his 1977 film Annie Hall , but her role was cut out of the final edit of the film. Shields and her mother Teri appeared on the cover of the September 26, 1977 issue of New York Magazine , in a cover story about her modeling career. The main headline on the cover read: "Meet Teri and Brooke Shields" while the subtitle read: Brooke

1911-575: The wake of Pretty Baby , were Wanda Nevada and Tilt , both of which were released in 1979. In 1980, 14-year-old Shields was the youngest fashion model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue . Later that same year, Shields appeared in controversial print and TV ads for Calvin Klein jeans. The TV ad included her saying the famous tagline: "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Brooke Shields ads would help catapult Klein's career to super-designer status. She next appeared as

1960-491: Was also the youngest person to host ABC 's Fridays , a Saturday Night Live -like sketch comedy show, in 1981. Her next major film role was in Franco Zeffirelli 's drama Endless Love (1981). The MPAA initially rated Endless Love with an X rating . The film was re-edited to earn an R rating . For her performance in the film, she received her first Razzie Award nomination for worst actress . She won

2009-447: Was briefly involved with Donna 's ( Laura Prepon ) father ( Don Stark ). Shields left That '70s Show when her character was written out. In September 2004, she replaced Donna Murphy in the role of Ruth Sherwood in the 2003 revival of Wonderful Town until the show closed four months later. Her performance was widely praised. Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised the "goofy sweetness" she brought to her interpretation of

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2058-627: Was described as a "combination of Lolita ' s Humbert Humbert and (by that point) controversial director Roman Polanski ". Her scenes in the nude also caused the film to be banned in Argentina , South Africa , and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Saskatchewan . The film's ban in Ontario was lifted in 1995. She graced the cover of the May 29, 1978 issue of People , which bore

2107-675: Was dressed as "wealth" with a tall headdress and two hand maids at one of a nationwide set of birthday celebrations for President Roosevelt. The following year in 1937 at the Roosevelt Birthday Ball Torlonia was one of a hundred women specially dressed to celebrate the event, she was dressed as "The East", representing the Eastern United States fashion, and in attendance was the President's mother Sara Roosevelt . Sculptor Marino Marini created

2156-523: Was portrayed as nude in a third scene where she was being held hostage. For her work in the movie, she was paid a fee of $ 250,000 (equivalent to $ 920,000 in 2023 dollars), plus six percent of the profits. Just You and Me, Kid received poor reviews. Critic Roger Ebert , in his Chicago Sun-Times newspaper review, gave the film two out of four stars, calling the film "a charming disappointment." On his Sneak Previews TV show with Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel , both Ebert and Siskel gave

2205-407: Was pregnant, Francis's family paid her a sum to terminate the pregnancy. Teri took the money, but violated the agreement and gave birth to Brooke. Francis married Teri, but they were divorced when Shields was only five months old. She has two stepbrothers and three half-sisters. When Shields was only five days old, her mother openly stated she wanted her to be active in show business, saying: "She's

2254-544: Was so disturbed as to fire the top undergraduate officers shortly after the issue was published. The issue became a campus cause célèbre , attracting national news attention. The March 30, 1893 issue contained the earliest print appearance of the delayed postfixed Not! joke. Tiger Magazine also has the first recorded " There once was a man from Nantucket " limerick. A number of its writers and editors later went on to notable literary or artistic careers. Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965)

2303-428: Was the "Brooke Book" issue of 1983, which satirized an actress named "Brook Shell" who had been purportedly accepted into Princeton—a thinly veiled jab at the real-life actress-model Brooke Shields , shortly after she was accepted into Princeton's class of 1987. While the published material was substantially less obscene than some of the drafts that led to it (see the links below for details), the magazine's graduate board

2352-520: Was the Italian nobleman Alessandro Torlonia , the husband of Infanta Beatriz of Spain . In a 2010 episode of the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? , Shields discovered she is a descendant of Victor Amadeus I of Savoy and his wife Christine of France (a daughter of King Henry IV of France and Maria de' Medici ) through the Torlonia dynasty. When Teri announced that she

2401-593: Was the photographer of a controversial set of nude images taken in 1975 of a then ten-year-old Brooke Shields with the consent of her mother, Teri Shields, for the Playboy Press publication Sugar 'n' Spice . The images portray Shields nude, standing and sitting in a bathtub, wearing makeup and covered in oil. The courts ruled in favor of the photographer due to a strange twist in New York law. The ruling would have been decided otherwise if Shields had been considered

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