Gorgeous Portrait Photos of Classic Beauties Taken by Cornel Lucas ~ Vintage Everyday

Cornel Lucas (1920–2012) was a British photographer, who as a film still photographer was a pioneer of film portraiture in the 1940s and 1950s. He was the first photographer to win a BAFTA in 1998 for Services to British Film Industry. He published two books of his work, Heads and Tales and Shooting Stars.

Exhibited internationally. Permanent collection at National Portrait Gallery (London), National Media Museum and London’s Photographers’ Gallery. He joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1943, becoming a Fellow.

Lucas photographed many movies stars in the late forties and fifties including Marlene Dietrich, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Robert Newton, Joan Collins, Yvonne de Carlo, Diana Dors (in a gondola in Venice). He was in charge of the photographic studios set up by the Rank Organisation.

These gorgeous photos are part of his work that Cornel Lucas took portraits of classic beauties from between the 1940s and 1960s.

Anouk Aimée in the film "Les amants de Vérone", photo by Cornel Lucas, 1949

Jean Simmons, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1948

Katharine Hepburn, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1950

Jean Simmons, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1951

Joan Collins, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1951

Marlene Dietrich, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1951

Gene Tierney, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1952

Joan Collins, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1952

Kay Kendall, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1952

Brigitte Bardot, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1955

Diana Dors, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1955

Diana Dors, photo by Cornel Lucas, Venice, May 5, 1955

Swedish actress Mai Zetterling, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1955

English actress Belinda Lee, photo by Cornel Lucas, 1956

English actress Jill Ireland, photo by Cornel Lucas at the National Film Theatre, South Bank which had opened in October 1957 with the first London Film Festival