Magnificent Portrait Photos Of Hollywood Icons Taken By Douglas Kirkland

When you think of enchanting images of Hollywood stars — Marilyn Monroe wrapped up in silk sheets, Audrey Hepburn flashing a knowing grin — do you wonder about the person behind the camera? And how they possibly captured that delicate moment?

For the past 50 years, photographer Douglas Kirkland has found new angles on the world’s most familiar faces. The Fort Erie transplant still surprises himself with stories from the field; like that time Elizabeth Taylor agreed to let him photograph her after a prolonged break from the public eye.

Ann-Margret

Douglas Kirkland was born in 1934 in Fort Erie, Ontario. At age twenty-four, Kirkland was hired as a staff photographer for Look magazine and became famous for his 1961 photos of Marilyn Monroe taken for Look’s 25th anniversary issue. He later joined the staff of Life magazine.

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Brigitte Bardot

Marlene Dietrich

Peter O’Toole

Jamie Lee Curtis

Audrey Hepburn

Paul Mazursky

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Caine

Jack Nicholson

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Jessica Lange

Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith

Scene from The Sound of Music

Britt Ekland and Peter Sellers

Dennis Hopper

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ingmar Bergman

California Here We Come

Andy Warhol

Elizabeth Taylor

Paul Newman, Katherine Ross and Robert Redford

Judy Garland

John Lennon

Dennis Hopper

John Travolta

Sophia Loren

Raquel Welch

Diana Ross

Marilyn Monroe