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The first comprehensive art book detailing the great studio photographers and the greatest stars of the 1930s through the 1950s. This all new large scale book presents the work of Hollywood's great photographers, Clarence J. Bull, George Hurrell, Scotty Welbourne, E.R. Richee, Robert Coburn, Ned Scott, and Bud Fraker (to name but a few) photographing the likes of Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Veronica Lake, Boris Karloff, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, and more.
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