Love, Cecil

02/03/2020 23 min
Love, Cecil

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Episode Synopsis

We discuss Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s beautifully conceived and edited documentary about Cecil Beaton. See links below.

Courtauld Institute of Art, Research Forum Events (2020): https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/research-forum/events

Cecil Beaton, Designs for the ballet Apparitions (1936): https://tinyurl.com/t96zg5r

Carte de visite of Kitty Lord: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/717253.html

Kitty Lord’s pink boots: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/431352.html

Lisa Immordino Vreeland (director), Love, Cecil (2017): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275884/

Bill Verity (director), Beaton by Bailey (1971): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2205427/

Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sothebys: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/cecil-beaton-studio-archive

Cecil Beaton’s royal portraits at the V&A: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/cecil-beaton

Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion (first published in 1954): https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847843855/

Leslie Howard and Maurice Elvey (directors), The Gentle Sex (1943): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035931/

George Cukor (director), My Fair Lady (1964): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058385/

Vincente Minelli, Charles Walters (directors), Gigi (1958): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051658/

Vincente Minelli (director), On a clear day you can see forever (1970): (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066181/

André Previn (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics), Coco (1969), excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g7o6sjrqcg