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Venetia Stevenson, a model, actress and daughter of Hollywood luminaries who appeared in films including Darby’s Rangers, Island of Lost Women and Horror Hotel after being labeled “the most photogenic girl in the world,” has died. She was 84.
Stevenson died Monday at a health care facility in Atlanta after a battle with Parkinson’s disease, her brother, actor and photographer Jeffrey Byron, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stevenson’s parents were Robert Stevenson, the Oscar-nominated director of Mary Poppins who earlier helmed King Solomon’s Mines and Jane Eyre, and her mother was Anna Lee, who starred in How Green Was My Valley and portrayed the matriarch Lila Quartermaine for a quarter-century on General Hospital.
The screen siren was married to actor Russ Tamblyn from Valentine’s Day 1956 until their divorce in April 1957 and to Don Everly of The Everly Brothers from 1962-...
Venetia Stevenson, a model, actress and daughter of Hollywood luminaries who appeared in films including Darby’s Rangers, Island of Lost Women and Horror Hotel after being labeled “the most photogenic girl in the world,” has died. She was 84.
Stevenson died Monday at a health care facility in Atlanta after a battle with Parkinson’s disease, her brother, actor and photographer Jeffrey Byron, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stevenson’s parents were Robert Stevenson, the Oscar-nominated director of Mary Poppins who earlier helmed King Solomon’s Mines and Jane Eyre, and her mother was Anna Lee, who starred in How Green Was My Valley and portrayed the matriarch Lila Quartermaine for a quarter-century on General Hospital.
The screen siren was married to actor Russ Tamblyn from Valentine’s Day 1956 until their divorce in April 1957 and to Don Everly of The Everly Brothers from 1962-...
- 9/27/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Virginia Bruce: MGM actress ca. 1935. Virginia Bruce movies on TCM: Actress was the cherry on 'The Great Ziegfeld' wedding cake Unfortunately, Turner Classic Movies has chosen not to feature any non-Hollywood stars – or any out-and-out silent film stars – in its 2015 “Summer Under the Stars” series.* On the other hand, TCM has come up with several unusual inclusions, e.g., Lee J. Cobb, Warren Oates, Mae Clarke, and today, Aug. 25, Virginia Bruce. A second-rank MGM leading lady in the 1930s, the Minneapolis-born Virginia Bruce is little remembered today despite her more than 70 feature films in a career that spanned two decades, from the dawn of the talkie era to the dawn of the TV era, in addition to a handful of comebacks going all the way to 1981 – the dawn of the personal computer era. Career highlights were few and not all that bright. Examples range from playing the...
- 8/26/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Apparently, we're all about debunking stuff today here at IFC News. First, Orson Welles viral videos and now nude photos of Elizabeth Taylor. This was something I've seen repeatedly pop up on my Facebook and Twitter feeds for weeks and weeks since Liz passed away on March 23. The story that circulated claimed her "Cleopatra" co-star Roddy McDowell took the shot when Taylor was 24, then gave it to her third husband Miek Todd as a gift. Cause, y'know, husbands love when guys give them naked pictures of their wife.
Not too surprisingly, the pic and the story are equally bogus. Well, I guess the picture is genuine, it's just not genuinely Elizabeth Taylor who's nude in it. The London Telegraph has the story; the shot dates back to 1940, when Taylor was just eight years old. It was taken by photographer Peter Gowland and his subject was a dancer and model named Lee Evans,...
Not too surprisingly, the pic and the story are equally bogus. Well, I guess the picture is genuine, it's just not genuinely Elizabeth Taylor who's nude in it. The London Telegraph has the story; the shot dates back to 1940, when Taylor was just eight years old. It was taken by photographer Peter Gowland and his subject was a dancer and model named Lee Evans,...
- 4/13/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
The London Daily Mail is posting a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor at 24, reportedly taken by close friend Roddy McDowall when she was dating producer Mike Todd: He persuaded her to pose naked by promising her it would be done tastefully. She then gave it to Todd as a present after he proposed in 1956 – the pair married a few months later but the relationship was tragically short-lived. Todd was killed 13 months after their wedding day when his private plane crashed during a storm over New Mexico. Update: The Daily News debunks the portrait as Taylor; they say it's dancer Lee Evans. Here's the site of photographer Peter Gowland. The photo was taken in 1940, when Taylor was eight years old.
- 4/13/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
A nude photo widely believed to be of a young Dame Elizabeth Taylor is at the centre of an identity mystery after its veracity was called into question.
Fans were stunned after the shot emerged days after the movie veteran died last month. It features a naked young woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Taylor, kneeling and leaning forward on a white fur rug.
Reports claimed the Cleopatra star was just 24 when she agreed to pose for the snap, which she then gave to her third husband Michael Todd as an engagement present.
But bosses at U.S. photo agency Bauer Griffin have now stopped distributing the image after learning the woman in the picture is most likely Hollywood dancer and model Lee Evans.
The shot appears in photographer Peter Gowland's 2001 book Classic Nude Photography, Techniques and Images, which tells how he shot the picture in 1940 - when Taylor would have been just eight years old.
In the book, Gowland says of Evans, "She had never done any nude modelling before and since I was looking for a pretty model to expand my photography, I asked her to pose. She was shy, but appreciated art and so agreed."
Bauer Griffin co-owner Frank Griffin insists the firm is no longer associated with the picture "now we have learnt there is a possible challenge to the veracity".
Fans were stunned after the shot emerged days after the movie veteran died last month. It features a naked young woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Taylor, kneeling and leaning forward on a white fur rug.
Reports claimed the Cleopatra star was just 24 when she agreed to pose for the snap, which she then gave to her third husband Michael Todd as an engagement present.
But bosses at U.S. photo agency Bauer Griffin have now stopped distributing the image after learning the woman in the picture is most likely Hollywood dancer and model Lee Evans.
The shot appears in photographer Peter Gowland's 2001 book Classic Nude Photography, Techniques and Images, which tells how he shot the picture in 1940 - when Taylor would have been just eight years old.
In the book, Gowland says of Evans, "She had never done any nude modelling before and since I was looking for a pretty model to expand my photography, I asked her to pose. She was shy, but appreciated art and so agreed."
Bauer Griffin co-owner Frank Griffin insists the firm is no longer associated with the picture "now we have learnt there is a possible challenge to the veracity".
- 4/10/2011
- WENN
A supposedly naked photograph of Elizabeth Taylor published in the media earlier this month has been revealed as a fake. The nude image, seemingly of the movie icon who died last month at the age of 79, was printed in several newspapers. According to the Daily Mail, the picture was taken by actor and photographer Roddy McDowall, a friend of Taylor who promised her that the shot would be tasteful. Taylor was said to have given the photograph to her third husband Michael Todd soon after he proposed in 1956. However, readers commenting on the Mail article noted that the image is a doctored version of a photograph by Peter Gowland of dancer Lee Evans, which features in Classic Nude Photography: Techniques and Images. (more)...
- 4/6/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Celebrity fashion photographer Peter Gowland has died, aged 93.
The snapper died at his Los Angeles home on 17 March following complications from hip surgery, his wife of 68 years, Alice, tells the Los Angeles Times.
Gowland shot more than 1,000 major magazine covers and took pictures of celebrities including Robert Wagner and Rock Hudson.
He also snapped glamour shoots of models and invented elite cameras and equipment which he used over his six-decade long career.
The Hollywood-born photographer's twin-lens Gowlandflex camera has since been used by famed snapper Annie Leibovitz.
The snapper died at his Los Angeles home on 17 March following complications from hip surgery, his wife of 68 years, Alice, tells the Los Angeles Times.
Gowland shot more than 1,000 major magazine covers and took pictures of celebrities including Robert Wagner and Rock Hudson.
He also snapped glamour shoots of models and invented elite cameras and equipment which he used over his six-decade long career.
The Hollywood-born photographer's twin-lens Gowlandflex camera has since been used by famed snapper Annie Leibovitz.
- 3/29/2010
- WENN
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