#cecil beaton

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton at the Ambassador Hotel in New York, February 1956.

#marilyn monroe #1950s #50s #1956 #vintage #retro #old hollywood #old hollywood glamour #beauty #cecil beaton

[eyesfullofmoon]

Pages from Cecil Beaton's scrapbook(s).

#1930s #1940s #1950s #* #art #greta garbo #marlene dietrich #joan crawford #anna sten #lillian gish #katharine hepburn #peter lorre #fred astaire #mae west #sophia loren #grace kelly #gloria swanson #cecil beaton #old hollywood

[voguefashion]

Audrey Hepburn wearing a flower easter bonnet, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1964.

#happy easter #audrey hepburn #cecil beaton #1964 #fashion photography #fashion photoshoot #style #fashion #beauty #1960s

[seduccionarte]

Marilyn Monroe fotografiada por Cecil Beaton, New York 1955.

#marilyn monroe #actriz #seduccion #cecil beaton #actress

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This Edwardian-style gown was created for the Ascot scene in the original 1956 Broadway production of the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady. The scene was filled with beautiful gowns, all in black and white, in keeping with the famous “Black Ascot” of 1910, when King Edward VII died shortly before the event, making it inappropriate to wear color. Thus, those who attended wore all black, aside from accents of white from pearls and flowers.

The gown was designed by Cecil Beaton and executed by Helene Pons based on his sketches. The cream crepe dress has black velvet stripes and an embroidered lace bib. The photo above most likely shows actress Melisande Congdon in the costume, as she performed in the play for three years.

When Truman Capote decided to throw his famous “Black and White Ball,” – he used the scene from My Fair Lady as its inspiration. Deborah Davis’ wonderful book The Party of the Century mentions that much of the gossip about town was about “who” everyone would wear. Amanda Carter Burden, daughter of Babe Paley, was able to sidestep this conversation and not commit to any one designer when she chose a gown from the film My Fair Lady. A drawing of Amanda in costume, sketched by Kenneth Paul Block, appeared on the front page of Women’s Wear Daily.

But was her gown from the film adaptation of My Fair Lady? Amanda was based in New York City, and it would have been far easier for her to obtain one of the costumes from the Broadway show.

In addition, no costume in the film accurately matches the one she wore to the ball. There is one that is similar and clearly based on the same design, but it appears to be a different piece. 

In 2015, the dress from the Broadway production went up for sale, where it sold for $1280. It contains a lace dickey that the auction house noted has been added post-production. The dickey is clearly visible on Amanda Carter in the Black and White Ball photo. While I cannot confirm for certain that she is wearing the dress from the stage production rather than the film production, I am confident that she is.

Costume Credit: Katie S.

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#my fair lady #truman capote #Melisande Congdon #cecil beaton #Amanda Carter Burden #black and white ball #costume drama #period drama

[cinematicfinatic]

Marilyn by Cecil Beaton

#marilyn monroe #cecil beaton #classic movies #classic hollywood #vintage

[eirene]

Orson Welles resting on a sculpture of Shakespeare.

Photographer: Cecil Beaton

Vanity Fair

#Orson Welles #photography #portrait #black and white #classic hollywood #Vanity Fair #magazine #editorial #Cecil Beaton #old hollywood

[rosepompadour]

I imagined her as permanently shod in her sugar-icing pink frock and pink satin ballet shoes.

Cecil Beaton on Anna Pavlova, Ballet

#guess who received an anna pavlova autograph for christmas! #i already matted it with one of her iconique dying swan portraits 🦢🩰 #anna pavlova #cecil beaton #ballet

[mrmousetolliver]

Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais (c.1940's) photographed by Cecil Beaton. Cocteau and Marais met in 1937 and were partners, both professionally and personally, until 1947. Marais was considered to be Cocteaus muse and starred in plays and movies written and/or directed by Cocteau. After they ended their romantic relationship, they remained life long friends.

#style #classic #gay #art #gay artist #gay art #black and white photography #gay history #lgbt artist #lgbt history #jean cocteau #jean marais #cecil beaton

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

#marilyn monroe #monroedit #cecil beaton #1950s #vintage #old hollywood #hollywood #classic hollywood #edit #my edit #50s #1956

[ladybegood]

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Cecil Beaton for My Fair Lady (1964)

#audrey hepburn #cecil beaton #my fair lady #vintage #old hollywood #ladybegoodscan

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton at the Ambassador Hotel in New York, February 1956.

#marilyn monroe #1950s #50s #1956 #vintage #retro #cecil beaton #old hollywood #Old Hollywood glamour

[gatabella]

Marlene Dietrich by Cecil Beaton, 1932

“Marlene Dietrich is like a little girl dressed up as a woman. It’s a pity her child-like quality doesn’t get over on the screen. As a person she is very seductive, gay—and like a giggling girl. But if they keep putting her in the same type of role she’s in danger of becoming a monotonous movie vampire."

-Cecil Beaton, Screenland, Aug. 1932

#marlene dietrich #cecil beaton #quote

[fayegonnaslay]

Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

#MM #1950s #marilyn monroe #vintage new york #marilyn #monroe #new york #cecil beaton #black and white photography #portrait photography #muse #style icon #fashion icon #old hollywood #vogue #movie stars #classic cinema

[retro-only-darling]

Greta Garbo sat with Cecil Beatons pug

#classic hollywood #cecil beaton #greta garbo #dogs #old phography

[milksockets]

'lady diana manners as the madonna, 1930' in the best of beaton - cecil beaton (1968)

#my scan #cecil beaton