Zita Jungman

Zita Jungman
at 25
Born 1903
Died 18 February, 2006
Nationality United Kingdom
Known for member of the Bright Young Things

Zita Jungman later Zita James (13 September 1903 – 18 February 2006) was one of the Bright Young Things.[1]

Life

Jungman was born on 13 September 1903.[1] She attended Miss Wolf's school in London and Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate School. At Queen's Gate she met Lady Eleanor Smith and Alannah Harper and together they became early members of what the British press would call the "Bright Young Things".[2]

With her sister she tried to spend the night in Madam Tussaud's chamber of horrors. The removed the wax models of the "Princes in the Tower" to make themselves a bed and they were discovered by security staff during the night.[1]

On January 29, 1929, she married Arthur James, the grand-son of the Duke of Wellington.[3]

About Zita Jungman, and her sister Teresa, Cecil Beaton wrote: "The Jungman sisters are a pair of decadent 18th-century angels made of wax, exhibited at Madame Tussaud’s before the fire.... Zita has ... smooth polished complexion and shoulders, and unearthly hollow voice, but she has a serpent-like little nose and there is great architectural strength and firmness about her jaw and mouth. With her smooth fringes and rather flat head, like a silky coconut, like a medieval page, and with her swinging gait."[4]

She appeared on television after her 100th birthday and she died in Ireland at the age of 102, survived by her sister.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Zita James". Daily Telegraph. 2006-02-23. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  2. ↑ D J Taylor (30 September 2010). Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940. Random House. pp. 24, 55. ISBN 978-1-4090-2063-9.
  3. ↑ "Marriage of a "Bright Young Person" - 30 Jan 1929, Wed • Page 10". 30 Jan 1929, Wed • Page 10: 10. 1929. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  4. ↑ Beaton, Cecil (1933). The Book Of Beauty. Retrieved 17 January 2018.

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