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....
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.
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.