Cecil Beaton

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

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

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...

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...

After the war Cecil Beaton photographed ICB for Vogue.

NC was also the exemplary subject for painters and photographers—Nina Hamnett (who did a drawing of her for ten guineas at the request of Lady Cunard ),John Banting , Eugene MacCown ,...

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).

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...

In spite of the clamour and outrage (or perhaps in part because of it), the novel was, as Cecil Beaton remembered in his introduction to the 1974 re-issue, an overnight sensation, selling fast around the...

Philip de Laszlo painted two portraits of EG , one in 1912 and the other in 1927. They can be viewed on line at the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery website, at www.jssgallery.org.

NH 's friendship with a London School of Art student who was probably Paula Gellibrand (1890?-1964) brought her an invitation to spend two months in Russia over the summer.

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...

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 ...

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...

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