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Reviewed on December 1, 2018 | video
Fashion and portrait photographer, prolific diarist and scrapbook keeper, stage and costume designer Cecil Beaton (1904–80), propelled by an appetite for beauty and an overwhelming "visual hunger," was determined to lead a life out of the ordinary. Narrated by actor Rupert Everett, this video biography depicts Beaton's life full of contradictions. Born into a comfortable middle-class British family, he was bored by school, only becoming interested in his university's theater club, fo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More