“Big” Edie Beale sends words of encouragement to her niece Lee Radziwill following her theatrical debut in “The Philadelphia Story,” 1967.

Cecil Beaton for long obsessed by Greta Garbo’s image, finally met Garbo in February (1932) at a party given by the Eddie Gouldings in Hollywood. He relates “A huge vase of yellow roses freshly sprayed with water had been placed on the bar”. As Garbo looked at it, she intoned “A rose that lives and dies and never again returns”. She picked a rose and kissed it, fingered it with an infinite variety of caresses and raised it above her head. (x)

Robert Fludd, Healthy man surrounded by archangels, Integrum morborum mysterium, 1631

Courtesy Alain Truong

Courtesy Alain Truong

Sydney police photographs taken inside Rosaleen Norton's apartment in 1955, following an unlawful entry during a morality investigation.

Courtesy Alain Truong

Lilian Bond by George Hurrell, 1932.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. photographed by George Hurrell, 1933

Michelle Pfeiffer in a portrait by legendary old Hollywood glamour photographer George Hurrell, 1984.

Paulette Goddard - George Hurrell 1936