Hollywood royalty, actual royalty, It girls and society ladies, even, at the end of his life, punks – you were sure to have been photographed by Cecil Beaton.

LONDON — The young Cecil Beaton was desperate to escape his humdrum middle-class background, thrust his sisters Nancy and Baba into society’s whirl, and hang around with aristos, actresses ...

Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was a bird of rare and luxuriant plumage. “I set out to become a rabid aesthete,” he once said, and in that aim he succeeded hands down. His set designs and costumes ...

Watching “Love, Cecil,” an affectionate documentary portrait of the photographer, compulsive diarist and film and theater designer Cecil Beaton, it’s impossible not to wonder what this ...

Narrated by Rupert Everett, “Love, Cecil” is a suitably devoted portrait of the Academy Award-winning painter, photographer, designer, dandy, author and self-professed social climber Cecil Beaton.

For the Beaton obsessed – which such intimate access to this treasure trove could well make you – there’s the opportunity to spend hours poring over the accumulated objects: an album of Cecil’s ...

The cuttings were collected by – one imagines a proud and satisfied – Cecil in a scrapbook where he gathered and annotated mentions of the family in the papers and magazines of the day.