Margaux Bares All to Get Hollywood’s Attention

Life in the fast lane destroyed Margaux Hemingway’s film career just as it was getting under way a decade ago, but now, at 35, the granddaughter of the late, great author says she is ready to come back.

And the best way to get Hollywood’s attention, she figured, was to pose nude.

The model-actress is featured in Playboy’s current edition. If nothing else, she proved she is in great shape.

She insists that everything else is in order too, claiming victory in her battle against alcohol and cocaine dependencies.

Hemingway was a giddy 19-year-old when she burst on the national scene as an ingenue in “Lipstick.” The movie was terrible, but she captured the country’s imagination.

A fresh-faced, outdoor girl from Ketchum, Ida., Hemingway was a delightfully candid, naive newcomer whose love of life catapulted her into celebrity. She adorned the cover of Time magazine.

After all, this was Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter.

She signed a $1-million contract to promote a perfume and toured the world. She made movies--”Killer Fish,” “A Fistful of Chopsticks” and “Over the Brooklyn Bridge”--none of which was very good.

She was married and divorced twice, moving her home from New York to Venezuela to Paris and leading a fast-paced life that was going nowhere.

Her second marriage--to Venezuelan documentary film producer Bernard Foucher--finally hit the rocks, and Hemingway all but disappeared.

About 2 1/2 years ago she spent a month in the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and has been sober since. She also lost 75 pounds.

Last year she completed a movie in Paris, “Love in C Minor,” and hopes it will lead to a revived acting career in Hollywood, where she lives.

“I’m single and in charge of my own life for the first time,” she said. “It’s a marvelous feeling.”