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Dressed in the height of Edwardian elegance, photographer and theatre designer Cecil Beaton, widely assumed ... mysterious of all Hollywood's stars: Greta Garbo. Long before Cecil had even set ...
Greta Garbo began her acting career in her native ... She was five feet four inches tall. Close to Cecil Beaton, she provided him with information about Garbo to use in his writing about her ...
Born Greta Gustafsson in 1905 to a poor Swedish family – Gottlieb describes Garbo’s father as ... Along with her on-and-off affair with Cecil Beaton, the relationship with de Acosta was ...
The massive new volume “Beaton: Photographs,” out next week from Abrams, presents an expansive chronological survey of Cecil Beaton ... portraits of Greta Garbo, who appears in the slide ...
Bettmann//Getty Images Greta Garbo, seen here in a scrum of reporters ... an allegedly sexual affair with photographer and designer Cecil Beaton. And seen here avoiding photographers at Idlewild ...
Photographer Cecil Beaton, who compared glimpsing Garbo in ... When a man approached her table in a coffeeshop, asking “Aren’t you Greta Garbo?” she replied, “What would Greta Garbo ...
So said Greta Garbo about the prospect of making ... Even the gay British society photographer Cecil Beaton became an obsessed paramour. Meanwhile, Hollywood's most notorious seductress ...
Indeed, Beaton was a prolific photographer, shooting luminaries like Queen Elizabeth and Greta Garbo, as well as a diarist ... The documentary Love, Cecil will hit theaters next year; a companion ...
One wonders what Beaton would make of “Love, Cecil.” Vreeland’s film certainly ... Olympic fencer Kin Hoitsma and actress Greta Garbo. At the same time, its emphasis, almost by necessity ...
The subtitle is "The Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta." I knew that the mythic Garbo had been rumored to be a long "off and on" lover of the effete English designer Cecil ...
Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was a bird of rare and luxuriant ... the woman some considered the most beautiful in the world, Greta Garbo. “He’s a total self-creation,” Truman Capote once remarked ...
The fizzy Cecil Beaton show at the Museum of the City of New York focuses ... some of them -- like Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo (with whom he conducted a torturous love affair), the two Hepburns ...