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Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

The Backstory: The American fashion model in Hitler's bathtub

Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Entertainment News, Music History, News, Comedy, Music, Society & Culture

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Lee miller, the subject of a fascinating new Kate Winslet film, lived a glamorous but troubled life. Abused as a child, she went on to become a star fashion model in the 1920s. Then, as a wartime photographer, found herself taking a bath in Adolf Hitler’s tub the day he committed suicide. 

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0:00.0

Some people live a life that seems, I don't know, just beyond imagination, you know. Well, this chick,

0:06.0

now mostly forgotten, was a star fashion model in the 1920s, an acclaimed surrealist artist and a

0:13.2

renowned war photographer. And that's not even half her story. I'm Patty Steele, Lee Miller, posing for a

0:20.0

photo in Hitler's bathtub, the day he committed suicide.

0:23.9

That's next on the backstory.

0:27.6

Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

0:33.4

Oh, yeah.

0:34.2

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles,

0:40.7

including romanticie,

0:42.9

autobiographies, true crime, and more.

0:46.9

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic

0:49.1

or even missing their flight.

0:51.0

Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible.

0:53.4

No way.

0:54.0

Download the Amazon Music app now to includes audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music

0:55.2

app now to start listening. Terms apply. The backstory is back. Okay, she's drop-dead gorgeous,

1:04.0

ambitious, brilliant, and kind of quirky. Lee Miller is born in 1907 into a wealthy family in upstate New York. She becomes a fashion model, an artist, and a war photographer. She also has a string of famous lovers. So from the outside, her life seems pretty golden, but it was anything but. When Lee was a little girl, she was raped while staying with a family

1:28.7

friend in Brooklyn. That attack infected her with gonorrhea. She was just seven years old. On top of

1:35.6

that, her father, an amateur photographer, used his daughter as his model and took tons of photos

1:42.1

of Lee in the nude when she was a little girl and again as a young

1:46.2

teen. No surprise that she had troubles in school. In fact, despite her talent and brains, Lee was

1:53.2

expelled from almost every school she was sent to. In 1925, she turns 18 and decides to move to Paris to study theater, lighting, costume, and design.

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