Talitha Getty (October 18, 1940 - July 14, 1971) was an Indonesia-born Dutch actress and regarded as a style icon of the late 1960s.
Born Talitha Dina Pol in Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), her father was Willem Jilts Pol (1905-88), a painter who subsequently married Poppet John (1912-97), daughter of the painter Augustus John (1878-1961), a pivotal figure in the world of "Bohemian" culture and fashion. She was thus the ...
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Talitha Getty (October 18, 1940 - July 14, 1971) was an Indonesia-born Dutch actress and regarded as a style icon of the late 1960s.
Born Talitha Dina Pol in Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), her father was Willem Jilts Pol (1905-88), a painter who subsequently married Poppet John (1912-97), daughter of the painter Augustus John (1878-1961), a pivotal figure in the world of "Bohemian" culture and fashion. She was thus the step-granddaughter of both Augustus John and his muse and second wife, Dorothy "Dorelia" McNeil (1881-1969), who was a fashion icon in the early years of the 20th century.
Pol spend her early years, during the Second World War, with her mother, born Arnoldine Adriana Mees, in a Japanese prison camp. Her father was interned in a separate camp and her parents went their own ways after the war, Pol moving to Britain with her mother, who died in 1948.
Pol studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Writer and journalist Jonathan...
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