Cecil Beaton

Photographer Cecil Beaton suggested in his obituary of VT that a Prime Minister's appearance at her wedding symbolized a cultural change in attitudes toward actresses: they lost their final stigma and were recognized as persons...

IT married American painter and avant-garde photographer Curtis Moffat .

During the Second World War EB became friendly with photographer Cecil Beaton (with whom she exchanged plays), Lady Diana Cooper , and actress Dame Edith Evans . Later she also became a friend of MGM

BC delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club , as did Michael Arlen , Cecil Beaton , Charlie Chaplin , and Gloria Vanderbilt , and she counted...

Dinesen was fascinated by Monroe's prettiness, vitality, and innocence: they reminded her, she said, of a lion cub. The old and the young woman danced together (though not, as legend relates, on the table).

VT strengthened her bonds with Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , and formed others with Peggy Guggenheim , Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), François Mitterand , and Cecil Beaton .

By 1919 ES was also friendly with Arnold Bennett and his wife Marguerite . Wyndham Lewis became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...

Stephen Spender thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation.Among the several artists who portrayed her (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in paint, Cecil Beaton in photographs), her husband...

In her old age, LC recalled her sensations on that night: I was wearing a tiara . . . . And it was biting into my skull. At one event during the season, she...

After the war Cecil Beaton photographed ICB for Vogue.

After VW turned down his request to photograph her, Cecil Beaton included two drawings and a negative character sketch of her in his Book of Beauty, which was issued by the publishing firm of...

VT was admired throughout and after her lifetime for her commanding presence, beauty, and grace. Woolf wrote in her diary in 1926 that Tree had the great egotism, the magnification of self, which any bodily...

EB published her last novel, The Loved and Envied, with a stylish cover designed by Cecil Beaton .

Madame de Pompadour was first published with a jacket by Cecil Beaton . Her biographies (the study of Madame de Pompadour being followed by Voltaire, 1957, Louis XIV , 1966, and Frederick the Great ...

Duckworth issued a reprint on 31 October 1974, with an introduction by photographer Cecil Beaton (which had also appeared in the Times just before the reprint was published). Beaton had first met with EG 's...