The other day I was walking through Brentwood (yes, O.J.’s Brentwood), when I saw Jean Harlow on a bear skin rug.
It was something I had seen before…an image stripped from the pages of vintage “Vanity Fair”…the soft shadow fireside haze of classic Hollywood.
Suffice to say, it piqued my interest, and I entered the Cambridge Art Gallery for the very first time. Inside, matted and elegantly framed, was a collection of George Hurrell photography.
If that name doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps, “Grand Seigneur of the Hollywood Portrait” does. Or, “The Godfather of Glamour Photography.” Hurrell, whose mesmerizing images filled the pages of fashion magazines in the early days of Hollywood, worked as head of the MGM portrait gallery beginning in 1930.
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