Muse, model, surrealist and war photographer, Lee Miller witnessed at first hand the best and worst of the twentieth century. Man Ray was her lover; Picasso her friend; she danced with Chaplin and bathed in Hitler's bath tub. Her work includes Vogue fashion spreads and the first images of Dachau. But after the war she put away her camera and devoted herself to married life in Sussex.
Music from Six Pictures of Lee Miller: Has Anybody Seen Man Ray mp3 clip. (Anna Francolini as Lee Miller).
The ‘six pictures’ of the title move the action from Upstate New York c1923 to Paris c1930, then on to Egypt, London, Europe in 1944–5 (St. Malo, Rennes, Paris, Cologne & Munich!) and finally to Sussex in 1953.
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| Photos © Clare Park. |
| Lee Miller | Anna Francolini |
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Theodore Miller, Lee’s father Pablo Picasso, artist Roland Penrose, artist and writer | Brendan O’Hea |
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Florence Miller, Lee’s mother Gertrude Stein, writer Audrey Withers, editor of British ‘Vogue’ | Beverley Klein |
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Man Ray, artist A Doctor Leopold Brylla, a Cologne restaurateur | Teddy Kempner |
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Jean Cocteau, artist David E. Scherman, photographer ‘Life’ magazine A Psychiatrist | Mark Medows |
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Aziz Eloui Bey, Egyptian businessman Captain Spiros, US 83rd Division | Melvin Whitfield |
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Paul Eluard, poet Sergeant Magee, US 83rd Division A Naval Rating | Gary Milner |
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Alice B. Toklas, companion to G. Stein Nimet Eloui Bey, Aziz’s wife Cynthia Vogue, model Ariane, circus performer | Anna Lowe |
| Director | Anthony van Laast |
| Designer | Sue Blane |
| Lighting | Paul Pyant |
| Sound | Paul Arditti |
| Musical Director | Jonathan Williams |