Cherry Marshall

Cherry Marshall (25 July 1923 – 28 January 2006) was an English fashion model and agent, and non-fiction writer. She was married to the poet Emanuel Litvinoff.

Early life Marshall was born Irene Maud Pearson on 25 July 1923, at Girlsta Cottage, Jumpers Avenue, Christchurch, Dorset, the only daughter of Ernest Pearson, a sergeant in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Catherine Margaret Pearson, née Baker, a photographer's assistant. She was educated at Bournemouth School for Girls.

In 1942, at the age of 19, she met Emanuel Litvinoff at a Catterick Camp dance and they married at a register office a few months later. Despite giving birth to three children she maintained her 22-inch waist and at one time held the record for London's smallest waist. The business became the Cherry Marshall Model Agency, and clients included Patti Boyd, Suzy Kendall, Anthea Redfern, Paulene Stone and Pat Booth.

She also worked as a fashion journalist, firstly at the Sunday Express.

Publications In 1956, she published Fashion Modelling as a Career. In 1978, her memoir The Cat-Walk came out, followed by Primetime Woman in 1986.

Later life In the 1990s, Marshall bought a house in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, and died there on 28 January 2006.