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...make my name--and a full-page thing of me as the Marchioness looking like a Madonna would make the most terrific sensation and I should hold my head high all the season." There, in a diary entry made at the age of 20, is the essence of Cecil Beaton: ambitious, foppish and unstoppable. He was appearing in an undergraduate production of Pirandello's Henry IV, for which he had also designed the sets and costumes, and it is typical of the man's combination of luck and manipulation that the play was agreeably reviewed in the Spectator and witnessed...
With thoroughness and grace, Hugo Vickers, a British critic and journalist, traces the answer back to Beaton's obscure beginnings and follows it to a precipitous summit. Cecil was the grandson of a blacksmith and the son of a timber broker. There was nothing to be done about ancestry, but the future was another matter. Young Cecil confided to his diary, "Even in my dreams I long to make Mummie a society lady and not a housewife...
...Today's Rod Beaton wrote a story last week which listed his 10 top candidates for the prestigious Hobey Baker Award, given to college hockey's most valuable player...
Having been photographed and interviewed fifty times in fourteen months. I have lost weight, sleep badly, and hate photographers, especially the artistic ones who take 200 shots of their subjects.... There are now eleven million photographs of me in this country and abroad, taken by Cartier-Bresson. Cecil Beaton, Avedon. Douglas Glass, Halsman, and on and on. I know when I have had enough...
...burbling love songs on the street where she lives. Milo O'Shea, who plays her father, Alfred P. Doolittle, is a fine and feisty rogue, and Jack Gwillim manages to be both good-hearted and hopelessly stuffy, just as Colonel Pickering, that confirmed old bachelor, should be. Cecil Beaton's black-and-white costumes will always cause gasps of pleasure, and Oliver Smith's sets will forever define the boundaries of 27A Wimpole Street, where a flower girl was transformed into a lady. Within those walls there is a magic yet. But audiences will have...