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Vanities
FLASHBACK: Vanity Fair, 1934
Vanities
FLASHBACK: Vanity Fair, 1934
FLASHBACK: Vanity Fair, 1934
Vanities
Some queen: Claudette Colbert, the winged serpent of the Nile in Cecil B. De Mille’s Cleopatra, photographed by Hoyningen-Huene. Vanity Fair dubbed the epic an “unconsciously hysterical synthesis of Minsky burlesk, grand opera, the Beaux Arts costume ball and amateur theatricals of the Knights Templar.” Fifty years on, Miss Colbert is appearing in Return Engagement, an album of cinematic sirens photographed now and then. The new portraits are by HoyningenHuene’s star pupil, Horst P. Horst (Clarkson N. Potter, $25).
