Colin Slater - Portraits from Hollywoods Golden Age of Glamour

Melissa J. Hayes is the author of A Mug-up with Elisabeth, a companion for readers of Maine author Elisabeth Ogilvie, and has edited books ranging from Small Miracles of the Holocaust to Brothers in Valor, battlefield stories of African-American Medal of Honor recipients. She has a passion for classical Hollywood cinema, particularly films from the 1940s. She lives in Connecticut.

Portraits

from
HOLLY WOOD'S
GOLDEN AGE
of GLAMOUR

For Muriel, Nadine, Jr., and Kristi
You know who you are

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Names: Slater, Colin, editor. | Hayes, Melissa, writer of added commentary. | Hollywood Photo Archive.

Title: Portraits from Hollywood's golden age of glamour / Colin Slater and the Hollywood Photo Archive ; text by Melissa J. Hayes.

Description: Lanham, MD : Lyons Press, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2019018880| ISBN 9781493033454 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781493033461 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Motion picture actors and actressesCaliforniaLos AngelesPortraits.

Classification: LCC PN1998.2 .P66 2019 | DDC 791.4302/80922dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019018880

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

THE HOLLYWOOD PHOTO ARCHIVE IS NOT ONLY a wonderful collection of cinematic history, but it also captures the collective memories of Hollywood. The gunmen, the gallants, the ghosts, and the stars of the big screen are represented in an impressive archive of more than 180,000 pieces.

The collection has been assembled over forty years by Director Colin Slater. In Slaters early days, as he began to learn his craft, it was the great directorsWilder, Lean, and Welleswho advised him to study and learn from the film stills. Slater went on to own an important public relations agency, The Adventurers, in association with the legendary journalist and film executive, Fred Hift. Together with 500 stringers the company worked on almost every motion picture produced and released in the U.K., gathering stills from the stars and press collateral from the studios. Added with Hifts lifetime of files, the Hollywood Archive was born.

The outstanding archive provides a treasure trove of prints for film buffs; delve in and discover wonderful film stills, celebrity portraits, and heroic stage performances. For more information contact wkdirections@outlook.com.

1903 1960

Not actually a Hollywood luminary, Jean Ackerman was a star nonetheless, and was known as the Queen of the Ziegfeld Follies in the late 1920s and early 1930s, appearing in such musicals as Rosalie , Whoopee! , Midnight Frolic , and Smiles . Jean retired from the stage following her marriage to Walter Hirshon in 1931 and became a prominent New York socialite.

1917 2006

Born Eleanor Geissman in the Bronx, Allyson originally wanted to pursue a medical career, and only started working on Broadway as a way of paying her tuition expenses. MGM executives were so impressed with the Gene Kellychoreographed musical Best Foot Forward (1941), in which Allyson starred, that they bought the cast as well as the film rights and moved them all to Hollywood. Thus began Allysons stellar career, one in which she played Aw, shucks girl-next-door types, several of them opposite Jimmy Stewart, as his wife. As Ginger Rogers wrote, Shes the girl every man wants to marry and the girl every woman wants as a friend.

1936 present

Aptly described on her imbd.com page as the quintessential jet-set Euro starlet, the Swiss-born Andress is perhaps best known as the first Bond girl, appearing in the debut film Dr. No (1962), and setting a high bar for Bond girls to follow. (The bikini she wore in the movie sold at auction for nearly $60,000 in 2001.) She notably played the female lead opposite Elvis Presley in Fun in Acapulco (1963), and then went on to appear in many other films in the United States and Europe, until her career ebbed around 1980.

1935 present

At age thirteen, the youngest soloist ever to perform in a Royal Command Variety Performance, a 1948 concert at the London Palladium before King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Julie Andrews may be the most accomplished actress of our time. Mastering a broad spectrum of popular entertainment, from the theater ( My Fair Lady ), to film ( Mary Poppins ), to a voiceover role in the Shrek films, she has won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, five Golden Globes, three Grammys, two Emmys, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors Award, and the Disney Legends Award. In 2000, Andrews was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts.