# Gunilla Knutsson

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**Gunilla Knutsson**[a] (14 November 1940 – 3 February 2025) was a Swedish actress, model, author and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned [Miss Sweden](/source/Miss_Sweden) 1961[1] and was a semi-finalist in the [Miss Universe 1961](/source/Miss_Universe_1961) pageant.

## Life and career

Knutsson is most famous for a series of [Noxzema](/source/Noxzema) medicated [shaving cream](/source/Shaving_cream) commercials from 1967 to 1973, in which she urged men to "take it off, take it all off" (referring to facial hair).[2] During 1973, she appeared with [Joe Namath](/source/Joe_Namath) in such a commercial when he was the star [quarterback](/source/Quarterback) for the [New York Jets](/source/New_York_Jets) [American football](/source/American_football) team. Knutsson later became the spokesperson and vice-president of sales for Rose Milk Skin Care Lotion.[3]

A photograph of Knutsson appeared on the cover of the 11 December 1970 issue of *[Life](/source/Life_(magazine))* magazine. This issue of *Life*, with the caption "Model Gunilla Knutson owns a health food store", featured a three-page article entitled "The Move To Eat Natural" with a photo of Knutsson at her store Nature's Children, of which she was part owner. Another photo of her appeared on the October 1972 cover of *RC Modeler* magazine in front of a radio-control model of a [Bell Jet Ranger](/source/Bell_Jet_Ranger) helicopter, designed by Len Sabato.

In 1979, *[The Beaver County Times](/source/The_Beaver_County_Times)* issued an article, "The Gunilla Knutsson Saga", in which she spoke about her everyday life as an executive married woman.

In the 1990s, she worked as a wine taster for Sabrina Wine Importers and a gymnastic instructor at the Buckley Elementary School in [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan).[4][5]

Knutsson was married to Per von Scheele for over 50 years together with whom she had a son, Andreas von Scheele. She died in [Ystad](/source/Ystad), Sweden on 3 February 2025, at the age of 84.[6]

## Selected works

- *Beauty and Health the Scandinavian Way* (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1969)
- *Gunilla Knutson's Book of Massage* (St. Martin's Press, 1972)

## Footnotes

1. alternatively spelled Knutson, Knudson, or Knudsen

## References

1. [Fröken Sverige genom tiderna](http://www.sverigesman.se/historik/fr_sverige/genom_tiderna.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100821132501/http://www.sverigesman.se/historik/fr_sverige/genom_tiderna.htm) 21 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine. sverigesman.se (in Swedish)

1. Butler, Jeremy G. (2010). "The persuasive power of style". *Television Style*. Routledge. [OCLC 354854342](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/354854342)

1. ["Advertising: The Copycats"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081214140157/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901013,00.html). *[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))*. 11 July 1969.

1. Rubenstein, Hal (26 September 1993). ["It's Growing"](https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/26/magazine/it-s-growing.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*.

1. ["Noxzema Shaving Cream Girl"](http://www.tvacres.com/admascots_noxema.htm). [TV Acres](/source/TV_Acres). 4 February 2013. [Archived](https://archive.today/20130204191857/http://www.tvacres.com/admascots_noxema.htm) 4 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["Gunilla Knutson"](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/gunilla-knutson-obituary?id=57498602). *Legacy*. Retrieved 10 February 2025.

## External links

- [Knutsson on the cover of *Life* 1970](https://www.historyforsale.com/productimages/jpeg/25566.jpg)
- [Gunilla Knutsson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461758/) at IMDb

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