Ms. Brown, who died Monday at a Manhattan hospital at age 90, imagined the "Cosmo Girl" self-confident, sexy and career-oriented (and perhaps indifferent to children, as Ms. Brown professed to be).
Through a carefully-managed image, the 31-year-old star shows she can do it all by portraying herself as a sexy performer, an astute businesswoman, a dutiful wife and loving mother and a girl-next-door from Texas.