In Focus: The Hollywood Lens of Murray Garrett

"In-Focus: The Hollywood Lens of Murray Garrett" features the life and works of this amazing photojournalist.

In 1946, Murray Garrett arrived in Hollywood where he went to work as personal and professional photographer to Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton, Red Skelton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and many, many others. The path of Garrett s life in Hollywood had been drawn. He was destined to capture images that stand today as an aide memoir to the golden age of the entertainment industry. His body of work, if only in small part, is preserved in the best selling photo collections Hollywood Candid and Hollywood Moments .

In-Focus: The Hollywood Lens of Murray Garrett features images captured by the artist and in-depth interviews with those he photographed during his stellar career, including Phyllis Diller, Dick Martin, Johnny Grant, A.C. Lyles, Terry Moore and Beverly Garland. Journalists Bob Thomas, Charles Champlin and Norman Corwin emphasize the power and importance of Garrett s work Murray Garrett added the flashbulbs to the image of Hollywood.

What Jack Warner and Louis B. Mayer did for the public image of such stars as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford Murray Garrett did for the public image of an industry known as Hollywood. A truly amazing, unique, visual and vital contribution to the last century.

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1 hour 20 min
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DCTV - Sponsored Programs
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DCTV Digital Library
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MPEG2 - MP4