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Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and screen.
The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs.In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs, highlights actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard.
Cecil Beaton attempted to have all the copies destroyed. [5] The novel subsequently disappeared from circulation, making it extremely rare. The story is not included in the Berners anthology Collected Tales and Fantasies, but it was reprinted, with some additional explanatory material, in 2000 thanks to the efforts of Dorothy Lygon. [6]
In January 1933 she was the bridesmaid of Nancy Beaton who was marrying Sir Hugh Houston Smiley, 3rd Baronet (1905–1990). The dresses were designed by Cecil Beaton and among the other bridesmaids there were Baba Beaton, Margaret Whigham, and Lady Anne Wellesley. [6] [7]
The moral is that one's first love is the only love that matters – aaah! – but the problem here is that Harvey is also something of a cold fish, not overly furnished with charm. The women make the most of their extended cameos, and pose in their Cecil Beaton costumes." [8] Leslie Halliwell said: "Tedious charade with neither wit nor grace." [9]
In 1930, society photographer, artist and set designer Sir Cecil Beaton began a lifelong obsession with Watson, though the two never became lovers. One chapter from Hugo Vickers' authorized biography of Cecil Beaton is titled "I Love You, Mr. Watson". In 1940, Watson provided funding for Cyril Connolly's Horizon and became its arts editor.
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