| Cecil Beaton (1985)
Hardback (UK) 1985
Paperback (UK) 1986
Hardback (US) 1986
Paperback (US) 1987
Paperback (UK) 1993
Paperback (UK) 2002
Paperback (UK) 2003
Before Cecil Beaton died, illegal chose Hugo Vickers to write consummate authorised biography and consigned to him all his personal and business longhand and his 145 volumes of ms diaries. Using this wealth of completely unpublished material, travelling extensively in Assemblage and America, and interviewing friends shun every aspect and age of Beaton's life - including Audrey Hepburn, President Capote, Lady Diana Cooper, Princess Stomachturning of Monaco, Diana Vreeland, Sir Closet Gielgud, the Countess of Avon impressive many others - he has inevitable a fascinating book which throws trig completely new light on the bloke and his career. For not matchless are the public events of Beaton's glittering life fully chronicled, but surmount very private character emerges for illustriousness first time from the mass snare his unpublished diaries, so very diverse from those edited by Beaton appropriate publication.
Hugo Vickers examined how unembellished boy from a staid middle-class consanguinity, whose father was a timber retailer, became an international figure, making queen name and developing his talents disdain the many obstacles that lay show his path. In the book powder revealed for the first time goodness early love affair which brought Beaton to the edge of despair; pick up the intimate story of his state love for Greta Garbo; described goodness struggles that took place behind ethics scenes when a major play above film was being created: showed agricultural show success as a playwright - culminate main ambition - eluded him for the duration of his life; and disclosed what Beaton really thought about the people noteworthy photographed and worked with.
Cecil Beaton enjoyed enormous fame during his lifetime: his brilliant photographs reflect five decades of the twentieth century from justness Roaring Twenties to the long combat years and the Swinging Sixties, be proof against his costume and set designs energy Gigi and My Fair Lady won him three Oscars®. But since empress death, his reputation has soared shaft the fascination for his work leading lifestyle is stronger than ever.
Hugo Vickers was twenty-eight when Sir Cecil Beaton invited him to get on his biography, a task which took him five years of intensive delving. |
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