Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood (published by ACC Art Books) contains over 200 photographs from the internationally renowned John Kobal Foundation, taken by leading Hollywood portrait photographers during the motion picture industry’s golden years of 1920 to 1960.
In 2018, The Hood Museum at Dartmouth College in the USA acquired the foundation’s print archive so the images in this book had to be selected entirely from the little-seen negatives, long buried in the remarkable archives of the foundation.
This book is also a last hurrah from the foundation’s archive as the negatives have been donated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles and will be moving there this summer.
The co-authors, Robert Dance, who has several notable books on Hollywood photography to his credit, and Simon Crocker, Chair Emeritus of the John Kobal Foundation, spent many days going through the thousands of negatives to find images that had not been widely seen for decades.
They unearthed fabulous portraits of many major stars – including Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, as well as nowadays less remembered stars including Anna May Wong, Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez and Ramon Novarro.
This book is here to remind long-time movie fans why these important 20th-century icons will forever remain the Fabulous Faces of our time.
Simon Crocker
Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood
Publisher: ACC Art Books
Size: 300 mm x 240 mm
Pages: 240 Pages, Illustrations: 190 black and white
ISBN : 9781788842518
https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/
