A revelatory book collects behind-the-scenes photos of Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, and others on the set of movie shoots.
Paul Newman, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” 1969.
The movies of classic Hollywood existed in a realm of severe artifice; the reality at their heart was that of the actors themselves. The power of that paradox is on lavish and alluring view in a revelatory new book, “” , which collects photos taken of actors at the Twentieth Century Fox studio from the nineteen-thirties through the nineteen-seventies to document their wardrobe, makeup, and hair styling.
A movie star is someone about whom the camera’s X-ray-like stare reveals an entire inner universe. Movie acting isn’t a matter of performance or technique but of presence, a presence that’s stronger or fuller on camera than in life. That’s why it’s such a risky, even reckless, art. In theatre, actors give; in movies, actors are taken from, and what the camera takes is often something other than what actors think they’re giving, and something that actors can neither control nor withhold.
, says: “The camera is too intimate. It crawls down your throat and creeps up your nostrils and it tells you what you are.”The anonymously crafted photos in “Styling the Stars” prove Barrymore’s point: they show who the stars are. Joan Crawford, photographed in virtual mug shots to highlight the crisp chiffon of her tight hair style in “
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