MARILYN MONROE RECVD CECIL BEATON 1956 SIGNED TYPED LETTER IMPORTANT CONTENT




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Reference Number: Avaluer:12529860Category: ENTERTAINMENT MEMORABILIA
sub category: autographs - originalGeneral: Movie Memorabilia
Authenticity: guaranteed 100% authenticAutograph Type: Entertainment: Originals
Autograph Authentication: UACCGenre: memorabilia
Signed by: Cecil BeatonCountry of Manufacture: United States
Object Type: Cards & PaperOriginal/Reproduction: Original
Industry: MoviesModified Item: No
Product Type: typewritten letterCountry/Region of Manufacture: United States
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MARILYN MONROE RECVD CECIL BEATON 1956 SIGNED TYPED LETTER IMPORTANT CONTENT !

  DESCRIPTION:   EXTREMELY RARE & IMPORTANT - HIGHLY R...ECOMMENDED! From Marilyn Monroe's collection as auctioned by the Lee Strasberg Estate. This has been kept in storage for decades. Photographer designer CECIL BEATON vintage 1956 authentic originally signed 2 page typewritten letter to MARILYN MONROE regarding their famous photo shoot and other personal matters. Also included is the auction tag from the sale.
·       Certified 100% authenticoriginal hand signed. This autographed item has been authenticated by MY MOVIEMEMORABILIA & MORE, a UACC (Universal Autograph Collectors Club) RegisteredDealer (No. RD321), which must abide by the UACC Code of Ethics, all policiesthat the UACC has enacted and must have a good standing as a reputable dealerrecommended by long-term UACC dealers. We have years of experience selling tobuyers internationally with a 100% positive feedback. All of my autographeditems have a lifetime money back guarantee of authenticity.
- SIZE:  approx. 10" X 8"
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CECIL BEATON BIO SirCecil Walter Hardy Beaton,  CBE (14 January1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and warphotographer,  diarist, painter, interior designer and an AcademyAward-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in1970.[1][2]Beatonwas born on 14 January 1904 in Hampstead the son of Ernest WalterHardy Beaton (1867–1936), a prosperous timber merchant, and his wife EttySissons (1872–1962). His grandfather, Walter Hardy Beaton (1841–1904), hadfounded the family business of Beaton Brothers Timber Merchants and Agents, andhis father followed into the business. Ernest Beaton was also an amateur actorand had met his wife, Cecil's mother Esther or Etty, when playing the lead in aplay. She was the daughter of a Cumbrian blacksmith named Joseph Sissons andhad come to London to visit her married sister.[3] Through hismaternal grandmother, Elizabeth Oldcorn, Cecil was related to the Blessed FatherEdward Oldcorne who was involved in the Gunpowder Plot. Ernest and Etty Beatonhad four children – in addition to Cecil there were two daughters Nancy(1909–99, who married Sir HughSmiley) and Barbara (1912–73, known as Baba, shemarried Alec Hambro), and another son Reginald (1905–33).[4]CecilBeaton was educated at Heath Mount School (where he was bulliedby Evelyn Waugh) and St Cyprian's School,  Eastbourne, where hisartistic talent was quickly recognised. Both CyrilConnolly and Henry Longhurst report in their autobiographiesbeing overwhelmed by the beauty of Beaton's singing at the St Cyprian's schoolconcerts.[5][6] When Beaton was growing uphis Nanny had a Kodak 3A Camera, a popular model which wasrenowned for being an ideal piece of equipment to learn on. Beaton's nannybegan teaching him the basics of photography and developing film. He wouldoften get his sisters and mother to sit for him. When he was sufficientlyproficient, he would send the photos off to London society magazines, often writingunder a pen name and ‘recommending’ the work of Beaton.[7]Beatonattended Harrow, and then, despite having little or no interest inacademia, moved on to St John's College,  Cambridge, and studiedhistory, art and architecture. Beaton continued his photography, and throughhis university contacts managed to get a portrait depicting the Duchess ofMalfi published in Vogue. It was actually George"Dadie" Rylands– "a slightly out-of-focus snapshot of him asWebster's Duchess of Malfi standing in the sub-aqueous light outside the men'slavatory of the ADC Theatre at Cambridge."[8]Beatonleft Cambridge without a degree in 1925. After proving hopeless as an officeemployee in his father's timber business, he spent 'many lugubrious months'learning to be an office worker with a cement merchant in Holborn. Thisresulted only in 'an orgy of photography at weekends' so he decided to strikeout on his own.[9] Under the patrongage of OsbertSitwell he put on his first exhibition in the Cooling Gallery, London. Itcaused quite a stir.Believingthat he would meet with greater success on the other side of the Atlantic, heleft for New York and slowly built up a reputation there. By the time he left, he had 'a contract with Condé Nast Publications to take photographs exclusivelyfor them for several thousand pounds a year for several years to come.'[10]Forfifteen years between 1930 and 1945, Beaton leased Ashcombe House inWiltshire, where he entertained many notable figures.In1948 he bought Reddish House, set in 2.5 acres of gardens, approximately 5miles to the east in Broad Chalke. Here he transformed the interior, adding rooms on the eastern side, extending the parlour southwards, andintroducing many new fittings. Greta Garbo was a visitor.[11] Theupper floor had been equipped for illegal cock-fighting at thebeginning of the 20th century but Beaton used the cages as wardrobes to storethe costumes from his set design of My Fair Lady. He remained atthe house until his death in 1980 and is buried in the churchyard.[12][13][14] In1947, he also bought a townhouse at number 8 Pelham Place in London.Beatondesigned book jackets and costumes for charity matinees, learning theprofessional craft of photography at the studio of Paul Tanqueray, untilVogue took him on regularly in 1927.[15] He also set up his ownstudio, and one of his earliest clients and, later, best friendswas Stephen Tennant; Beaton's photographs of Tennant and his circle areconsidered some of the best representations of the Bright YoungPeople of the twenties and thirties.Beaton'sfirst camera was a Kodak 3A folding camera. Over the course of his career, heemployed both large format cameras, andsmaller Rolleiflex cameras. Beaton was never known as a highlyskilled technical photographer, and instead focused on staging a compellingmodel or scene and looking for the perfect shutter-release moment.He wasa photographer for the British edition of Vogue in 1931when George Hoyningen-Huene, photographer for the French Vogue travelledto England with his new friend Horst. Horst himself would begin to workfor French Vogue in November of that year. The exchange andcross-pollination of ideas between this collegial circle of artists acrossthe Channel and the Atlantic gave rise to the look of styleand sophistication for which the 1930s are known.[16]Beatonis best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits. He worked as astaff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue inaddition to photographing celebrities in Hollywood. However in 1938, heinserted 'some tiny-but-still-legible [anti-Semitic] phrases (including theword 'kike') into American Vogue at the side of an illustration about New Yorksociety. The issue was recalled and reprinted at vast expense, and Beaton wasfired.'[17]Humiliated, Beaton returned to England where the Queen recommended him to the Ministry ofInformation. He became one of Britain's leading war photographers, best knownfor his images of the damage done by the German blitz. His style sharpened andhis range broadened, Beaton's career was restored by the war.[18]Beatonoften photographed the Royal Family for official publication.[19] Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was his favourite Royal sitter, and he once pocketed herscented hankie as a keepsake from a highly successful shoot. Beaton took thefamous wedding pictures of the Duke and Duchess ofWindsor (wearing an haute couture ensemble by the noted Americanfashion designer Mainbocher).Duringthe Second World War, Beaton was initially posted to the Ministry ofInformation and given the task of recording images from the home front.During this assignment he captured one of the most enduring images of Britishsuffering during the war, that of three-year-old Blitz victim EileenDunne recovering in hospital, clutching her beloved teddy bear. When the imagewas published, America had not yet officially joined the war—but splashedacross the press in the US, images such as Beaton’s helped push the Americanpublic to put pressure on their Government to help Britain in its hour of need.[7]Beatonhad a major influence on and relationship with two other leading lights inBritish photography, that ofAngus McBean and David Bailey. McBean wasarguably the best portrait photographer of his era—in the second part ofMcBean's career (post-war) his work is clearly heavily influenced by Beaton, though arguably McBean was technically far more proficient in his execution.Bailey was also enormously influenced by Beaton when they met while working forBritish Vogue in the early 1960s, Bailey's stark use of square format (6x6)images bears clear connections to Beaton's own working patterns.Afterthe war, Beaton tackled the Broadway stage, designing sets, costumes, and lighting for a 1946 revival of Lady Windermere's Fan, in which he also acted.Hismost lauded achievement for the stage was the costumes for Lerner andLoewe's My Fair Lady (1956), which led to two Lerner and Loewefilm musicals,  Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964), both of which earned Beaton the Academy Award for Costume Design. He alsodesigned the period costumes for the 1970 film On a Clear Day You CanSee Forever.AdditionalBroadway credits include The Grass Harp (1952),  TheChalk Garden (1955),  Saratoga (1959),  Tenderloin (1960), and Coco (1969). He is the winner of four Tony Awards.Healso designed the sets and costumes for a production of Puccini’s lastopera Turandot, first used at the Metropolitan Opera in New Yorkand then at Covent Garden.Healso designed the academic dress of the University of EastAnglia.[20]CecilBeaton was also a published and well-known diarist. In his lifetime six volumesof diaries were published, spanning the years 1922–1974. Recently a number ofunexpurgated diaries have been published. These differ immensely in places toBeaton's original publications. Fearing libel suits in his own lifetime, itwould have been foolhardy for Beaton to have included some of his more frankand incisive observations.[21]He wasmade a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 1972.[22]Twoyears later he suffered a stroke that would leave him permanently paralysed onthe right side of his body. Although he learnt to write and draw with his lefthand, and had cameras adapted, Beaton became frustrated by the limitations thestroke had put upon his work. As a result of his stroke, Beaton became anxiousabout financial security for his old age and, in 1976, entered intonegotiations with Philippe Garner, expert-in-charge of photographsat Sotheby's. On behalf of the auction house, Garner acquired Beaton'sarchive—excluding all portraits of the Royal Family, and the five decades ofprints held by Vogue in London, Paris and New York. Garner, who had almostsinglehandedly invented the photographic auction, oversaw the archive'spreservation and partial dispersal, so that Beaton's only tangible assets, andwhat he considered his life's work, would ensure him an annual income. Thefirst of five auctions was held in 1977, the last in 1980.By theend of the 1970s, Beaton's health had faded. In January 1980, he diedat Reddish House, his home in Broad Chalke in Wiltshire, at theage of 76.[7]Thegreat love of his life was the art collector Peter Watson, although theywere never lovers. He had relationships with various men. He also hadrelationships with women, including the great Greta Garbo, theactress Coral Browne, the dancer Adele Astaire, and the Britishsocialite Doris, Viscountess Castlerosse.·       Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Quadrille(play) (1955)·       CBE (1956)·       Tony Award for Best Costume Design for My Fair Lady (1957)·       Fellow of the Ancient Monuments Society (1957)·       Academy Award for Costume Design for Gigi (1958)·       Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Saratoga (1960)·       Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (1960)·       Academy Award for Best Art Direction for My Fair Lady (1964)·       Academy Award for Costume Design for My Fair Lady (1964)·       Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society ofGreat Britain (1965)·       Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Coco (musical) 1970·       Knighthood (1972)  Courtesy of Wikipedia
 
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