This is a very good documentary on a.most fascinating subject! I came to know Beaton through research on Stephen Tennant, another fascinating character/ mate of the early century. one captures or creates beaury the way Beaton did! Anything he touched (photographs, set design, dress designs) became magiclly enchanted and immediately recognized! I wish he had more joy and contentment in his pruvate life. Thanks for rhe beautt, RIP CB! Best wishes to all out rhere! ❤❤❤
I loved your comments! I am almost finished reading the book SERIOUS PLEASURES...the life of Stephen Tenant. An extraordinary time of a particular genre of art....
A great shame the National Portrait Gallery Retrospective this year was halted by Coronovirus, but in the end it is his images, costumes and set designs that are his epitaph. Creative, but unbearably conceited.
His journals are excellent, because he was so visual, his descriptions of people are wicked, but yet gentle. For example, when friends die, his obituaries are tender and still so descriptive of their very auras on film and off.
it's hard to imagine that in 2004 anyone would still repeat the inane fiction that Beaton and Garbo were lovers. This was an absurd bit of fabrication Beaton splashed out a number of times in one of his hastily contrived books, to bolster his celebrity toward the end of his career . He took her passport photo, they ate a few meals together. And Beaton blew these embers into bonfires of salacious innuendo in every interview he gave for the rest of his life. She couldn't be bothered to refute him and probably was greatly amused. Take a good hard look at each of them. Does anyone really think these two were hot to leap under the covers together?
One finds oneself again and again uncomfortably astonished at the effrontery of people who, not possessed of actual real time knowledge of a given event, gainsay the word of those who were.
This is a very good documentary on a.most fascinating subject! I came to know Beaton through research on Stephen Tennant, another fascinating character/
mate of the early century. one captures or creates beaury the way Beaton did! Anything he touched (photographs, set design, dress designs) became magiclly enchanted and immediately recognized! I wish he had more joy and contentment in his pruvate life. Thanks for rhe beautt, RIP CB! Best wishes to all out rhere!
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I loved your comments! I am almost finished reading the book SERIOUS PLEASURES...the life of Stephen Tenant. An extraordinary time of a particular genre of art....
Sad when people cannot accept what aging does to the human body, but I guess we are all that way to a certain extent.
Narated by Honor Blackman - excellent documentary.
love ms blackman !
Really? I though it was Geraldine McEwan. They did sound so similar.
A great shame the National Portrait Gallery Retrospective this year was halted by Coronovirus, but in the end it is his images, costumes and set designs that are his epitaph. Creative, but unbearably conceited.
His acid character regarding other people is very off putting
He never wanted to be a blacksmith's grandson...
I got the biography and had to leave it largely unread, he seemed so shallow and not very kind or compassionate.
You misspelled “alluring”
His journals are excellent, because he was so visual, his descriptions of people are wicked, but yet gentle. For example, when friends die, his obituaries are tender and still so descriptive of their very auras on film and off.
He was writing in his private diary when he made those comments. How was he to know they would some day be published?
The camera loved the Bwrong Young Things almost as much as they loved themselves
So Cecil Beaton is Photoshop's beta version, good to know!
Even the most beautiful young women has objectionable things about them according to this bitter old queen.
I'll have to watch this in silence to appreciate the work,
Thank you for uploaded this documentary. Very nice to watch it again and again.
it's hard to imagine that in 2004 anyone would still repeat the inane fiction that Beaton and Garbo were lovers. This was an absurd bit of fabrication Beaton splashed out a number of times in one of his hastily contrived books, to bolster his celebrity toward the end of his career . He took her passport photo, they ate a few meals together. And Beaton blew these embers into bonfires of salacious innuendo in every interview he gave for the rest of his life. She couldn't be bothered to refute him and probably was greatly amused. Take a good hard look at each of them. Does anyone really think these two were hot to leap under the covers together?
Yes. It's a bit like convincing oneself that Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher were lovers ...............screech.
One finds oneself again and again uncomfortably astonished at the effrontery of people who, not possessed of actual real time knowledge of a given event, gainsay the word of those who were.
Anyone else clock the Beetlejuice score being used in this doc?
he and garbo were ....'intimate'...????
28:19......Shes saying : "Kike".....you cant hear it with her garbally... enunciation.
Top quality docu. Thanks!
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