7 July – 23 October 2011 Generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation www.npg.org.uk/glamour All photographs are vintage gelatin silver prints or printed from the original negative in the photographer’s lifetime unless stated otherwise and are © John Kobal Foundation, 2011. All platinum prints were made by Paul and Max Caffell @ Studio 31 in 2007/8. 1920s Clara Bow Lillian Gish for The Wind By Nickolas Muray, 1925 Attributed to Milton Brown Modern Platinum print from the original negative, 1927 Evelyn Brent By Henry Waxman, c. 1925 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy By Lansing Brown, 1925 Louise Brooks By E.R. Richee Buster Keaton Modern platinum print from the original negative, 1929 By Ruth Harriet Louise, 1929 Lon Chaney for The Unknown Carole Lombard By Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1927 By William Thomas, 1929 Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan for The Kid Nina Mae McKinney for Hallelujah! By an unidentified photographer By Ruth Harriet Louise, 1929 Modern platinum print from the original negative, 1921 Ramon Novarro for Ben-Hur Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky for The Magic Flame By Harry Lachman, 1925 By Kenneth Alexander, 1927 Mary Pickford Dolores Del Rio for The Trail of ‘98 By Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1920 By Russell Ball, 1928 Gloria Swanson for Male and Female Greta Garbo and John Gilbert for Flesh and The Devil By Karl Struss, 1919 By Bert Longworth, 1926 The Ten Commandments Lillian Gish By Edward Sheriff Curtis, 1923 By James Abbe, 1920 Anna May Wong By E.R. Richee, early 1920s 1930s John Barrymore for Svengali Cary Grant By Bert Longworth, 1931 By Ted Allan, 1936 © reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London Joan Blondell By Elmer Fryer, 1937 Jean Harlow By George Hurrell, 1933 James Cagney for Angels with Dirty Faces By Scotty Welbourne, 1938 Jean Harlow for Dinner at Eight By Harvey White, 1933 Gary Cooper By Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1933 Rita Hayworth By Gene Kornman, 1939 Joan Crawford By George Hurrell, 1934 Katharine Hepburn By Ernest A. Bachrach, 1935 Marlene Dietrich By George Hurrell, 1937 William Holden By William Walling Jr, 1939 Clark Gable and Joan Crawford for Dancing Lady By George Hurrell, 1933 Boris Karloff for The Mask of Fu Manchu By Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1932 1930s continued Charles Laughton Norma Shearer By William Thomas, 1935 By George Hurrell, 1933 Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind James Stewart By Fred A. Parrish, 1939 By Ted Allan, 1938 Myrna Loy and William Powell for The Thin Man Robert Taylor By Ted Allan, 1934 By Ted Allan, 1936 The Marx Brothers for Day at the Races Johnny Weissmuller for Tarzan, the Ape Man By Ted Allan, 1937 By Clarence Sinclair Bull Modern platinum print from the original negative, 1933 Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire for Swing Time By John Miehle Modern platinum print from the original negative, 1936 1940s Ingrid Bergman Vivien Leigh for Waterloo Bridge By Ernest A. Bachrach, 1941 By Laszlo Willinger, 1940 Humphrey Bogart for High Sierra Marilyn Monroe By Scotty Welbourne, 1940 By Tom Kelley, 1949 Chromogenic print, edition 38/2000 Marlene Dietrich for Manpower By Laszlo Willinger, 1941 Michèle Morgan By Ernest A. Bachrach, 1940 Clark Gable and Lana Turner for Honky Tonk By Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1941 Ronald Reagan for Knute Rockne, All American By Mickey Marigold, 1940 John Garfield By Laszlo Willinger, 1946 Ann Sheridan By George Hurrell, 1940 Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney for Strike up the Band Attributed to Eric Carpenter, 1940 Elizabeth Taylor By Clarence Sinclair Bull Farley Granger for The North Star Dye transfer print, 1948 By Margaret Bourke-White, 1943 Loretta Young Rita Hayworth for Gilda By A.L. ‘Whitey’ Schafer, 1940 By Robert Coburn, 1946 Orson Welles Veronica Lake By Ernest A. Bachrach, 1940 By George Hurrell, 1942 Hedy Lamarr By Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1940 1950s – 1960s Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire Alfred Hitchcock with MGM lion By John Engstead, 1950 By Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1958 Joan Collins Rock Hudson for Lover Come Back By Cornel Lucas, 1953 © Cornel Lucas By Leo Fuchs, 1961 © Leo Fuchs Joan Collins for Seven Thieves Grace Kelly By Laszlo Willinger, 1959 By Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1956 James Dean for Rebel Without a Cause Marilyn Monroe By Floyd McCarthy By Ernest A. Bachrach Modern platinum print from the original negative, 1955 Modern platinum print from the original negative, 1952 Ava Gardner for The Little Hut Kim Novak for Bell, Book and Candle By Davis Boulton, 1956 By Robert Coburn, 1958 Audrey Hepburn for Funny Face Elizabeth Taylor for Suddenly, Last Summer By Bud Fraker, 1956 By Ken Danvers, 1959 A fully-illustrated book featuring all these portraits and including an essay by Robert Dance and an introduction by John Russell Taylor accompanies the exhibition. Available from all Gallery shops and online at www.npg.org.uk/shop. RRP £25 (paperback) .