Biography
Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in on a farm in Ketchum,
Idaho. But dad was Jack Hemingway, son of the Nobel prize winning
author 'Ernest Hemingway' (qv), and with that heritage fame was
almost foreordained. By the time she was 21, after the lead in the
rape melodrama _Lipstick (1976)_ (qv), she had a budding movie
career, a $1 million promotional contract with Faberge perfume, and
her face on magazine covers around the world. But within the decade
it was all lost. Her sister 'Mariel Hemingway' (qv), whose role in
_Lipstick (1976)_ (qv) had been suggested by Margaux, was a much
greater success; she had started drinking heavily; two marriages
had failed. In 1988 she checked herself into the Betty Ford Center
for rehabilitation. Attempts to parley her recovery from alcohol
into a revived career failed, and by the time she was 41 almost
nothing was left. She lived alone in a studio apartment, no
children, no lover, few friends. Neighbors informed police that she
had not been seen for days, and on July 1 they entered through a
2nd floor window. Dental records had to be used to confirm her
identity.
Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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