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...other truly bright spot, also in the third act, has the graying but still frisky Lord Brockhurst (Norman Patz), in France with his wife and eager for excitement, explaining to fluffy, pixie-like Dulcie, (Sally Ryder), one of Mme. Dubonnet's unfinished creations, that It's Never Too Late to Fall in Love. Then the wife (Judith Orchoff) appears and the spell is shattered...
Lace & Medals. Three out of four Brockhurst paintings (an estimated 600) have been of women, although "women are much harder to paint because of their subtler, less clearly defined features." Unlike Britons, "American men are still embarrassed to commission their own portraits for their homes and families." Most Brockhurst portraits of U.S. males are for board rooms and offices...
...most difficult assignment of Brockhurst's career was his portrait...
Duchess of Windsor, which was painted for the Duke in 1939. An average Brockhurst portrait takes about eight hour-and-a-quarter sittings, plus extra time for hands, backgrounds, diamonds, chiffon evening gowns, lace and medals. Because "she had an unusually mobile face and looked different every time she came to sit," it took Brockhurst twelve sittings to paint the Duchess...
Movie actresses have always given Portraitist Brockhurst a bad time. Merle Oberon was chronically late to sittings. Marlene Dietrich couldn't sit still, got bored after two or three sittings, so her portrait was left unfinished. The easiest person Brockhurst can imagine painting is John L. Lewis. "With his heavy dark eyebrows and face like a Pekingese, I could do him in three hours." But, so far, Lewis hasn't applied for a sitting...