Hollywood Poolside: Classic Images of Legendary Stars by Frans Evenhuis and Robert Landau

The Movie Star and the Swimming Pool—two icons of the Hollywood Dream, inseparably linked symbols of “making it.” Ingenue Marilyn Monroe at the Hotel Bel-Air. Ronald Reagan—buff, tan, and headed for legend status. Grace Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor—in the Golden Age, they all posed at poolside to let the world know they were stars. On the pages of Hollywood Poolside: Classic Images of Legendary Stars is a collections of rare photographs originally intended for fan magazines and newspapers. Today these photos comprise a fascinating “family album” of the film industry’s best-loved stars and the fabulous lifestyle they lived. Or perhaps they simply reinforce the fabled lifestyle that studio publicity agents created. Hollywood history buff and graphic designer Frans Evenhuis and photographer Robert Landau have compiled this intimate view of the glamour gods and goddesses of the Golden Age. With insightful text and captions, they explore the realities behind the images to create a nostalgic and telling study of Hollywood myth-making.