LOVE, MYSTICISM, AND THE HIPPIES

Sue Murray in Castillo's metallic jibba. Hair by Carita, hair 

ornaments by Sant'Angelo.

"The female woman is one of the greatest institooshuns of which this land can boste."
Artemus Ward

Marisa Berenson in Tina Leser's jewel-sparkled golden silk gauze caftan. Hair: Alexander of Paris. Rings: Gripoix. Photographs: Henry Clarke

Day-glo pink caftan with jeweled bands across the bosom and down the front. From Valentino for Movie Star. Pearl ring from Gripoix.

Vogue Pattern 7030: in velveteen with ostrich feathers

Vogue Pattern 7031: in pale velveteen with white ostrich feathers. Vendome earrings used as rings. Ara Gallant coiffures. Photography: Alex Waldeck.

Dorian Macksoud quilted georgette tricot dressing gown embroidered with gold.

Poncho pointed-hem night dressing with lace trim by Van Raalte. Marvella ankle bracelets.

Black chiffon nightshirt with ruffled-cuffed sleeves by Fernando Sanchez for Warner's photographed at the light-filled apartment of architect, Paul Rudolph. Photography: Alex Waldeck.

Twiggy photographed by Bert Stern in Sant'Angelo's bangle-harnessed mini-dress armed with his bright plastic bangles and an Omega watch. Three rows of Saint Laurent for Colony gilt links at the waist. A Rolex watch tacks down mink tails by Hausfeld.

White band through an a-line of navy mini-dress by Kasper for Joan Leslie on Penelope Tree. Photography: Gianni Penati.

Penelope Tree in bared-ringed midriff mini of white pique. Jean Campbell for Sportwhirl. Lower left: beaded neckline on a caftan of pink cotton jacquard by Perfect Negligee.

Chopped white cotton jumpsuit by Malcolm Starr. Earrings: Cassandra Hughes. Jeweled rope by K.J.L.

Under the shade of a Mr. John white-straw cartwheel hat, Penelope Tree wears orange blossoms on a printed cotton shirt with matching bloomers by Jax.

Bloomer girl in white swiss cotton by Jax.

The end-all panty stocking by Round-The-Clock. Legs hook onto the panty.

Givenchy's Wings-of-Brilliance coats flown over chopped jumpsuits

Lame over lame

Coupe de velours over crepe
Photography: Irving Penn






ravishing people

"The Ravishing Man," hairdresser and boutique owner, Paul McGregor in his jeans and t-shirt hand-painted by artist Saint Amant.

bottom left: Richard Burton's ex-wife Sybil with new man Jordan Christopher at their nightclub "Arthur."
bottom right: The Armandp Orsini's in Orsini's.

The Then Mrs. Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland

Jim Morrison (on the street with model Donna Mitchell) the lead singer with "The Doors," a man who looks like a lion, and who, according to one admirer, feels he "has to get his message to every woman" - a message every woman who sees him, gets. Donna Mitchell is in a "stretchie" from Etcetera.

Photography: Alexis Waldeck

Faye Dunaway in Jax

Vanessa Redgrave takes on Isadora
Photography: Norman Parkinson



men, now

Don Jaime de Mesia Figueroa, son of the Duke of Tamames, twenty-one, in front of his Matra Prototype/600 dressed in Diego Ruiz, Madrid.

Lord Hesketh

Christopher Sykes                     Tatton Sykes


                                  Stella Astor

Jenico Nicholas Dudley Preston, seventeenth Viscount Gormanston and Premier Viscount of Ireland. His pale yellow suit is from Michael Rainey's shop in Chelsea.

Thomas Patrick John Anson, fifth Earl of Lichfield, also Viscount Anson and Baron Soberton. Also, photographer Patrick Lichfield who took this triple self-portrait.

and took this portrait of a very gay Duke of Windsor with his Duchess.

Hero of the hour in the shirt of the moment. Turnbull and Asser's turtle of silk satin.

Patrick de Barentzen's side-closing white satin shirt with black braid, 

Turlteneck shirt with back and side-zip closingfrom DeVoss, Beverly Hills.

Silk paisley-lined shirt of charcoal glove leather. To order at Elaine Starkman.

Twiggy with shoulder strap bags, lucite rings by Bernard Kayman, Earrings by Flemming. Sant'Angel chain at the neck holds a flower-faced watch by Old England. Buried among Sant'Angelo watch bands and bracelets: a Timex electric watch.

Laquered torso by Courreges

Sky-blue nacre sequins, organdy windows, daisies with hearts of gold.

Ungaro

The Final Word

Closing the Courreges Collection - his brides in Super-nonclothes. 

The Way to a man's hearth

At-home fashion that makes you feel you're adored

Vogue November 1967

... eyes on the sixties at devodotcom 

A FI$TFUL OF DOLLARS - HUNTINGTON HARTFORD

The first issue of Show The Magazine of the Performing Arts was published in October 1961.

At the start of the sixties, A and P heir Huntington Hartford, felt the time had come to provide a publication devoted to culture and, in particular, the performing Arts.

Ever since the demise of ‘Vanity Fair’ twenty-five years earlier, there was no other publication on the market that featured the arts and Hartford believed that the advent of television, coupled with an exploding increase in the number of art cinema houses, bode well for a magazine that focused on film, film people, and the arts in general.

“Show will be the definitive magazine of the performing arts, and our view of those arts will be broad.” Wrote Hartford in his first Publisher’s note.

By 1964, Hartford has spent $6,000,000 on the project. Time magazine reported that the magazine was “falling into the hole by $100,000 per issue."

ON TOP

Sophia Loren

Pier Luigi

"A Neapolitan blend of brio and body, symbolizing male desire, emerged this year as a serious actress in De Sica's dramatic film, Two Women."

ON TOP

Leontyne Price

Eve Arnold

"Mississippi bred, captured New York at her Metropolitan debut last winter, causing a stampede for tickets whenever she appeared."

ON TOP

Gwen Verdon

Melvin Sokolsky

"Became Broadway's 'darling' with the witty gaiety of her dancing in Can Can, Damn Yankees, New Girl in Town, AND Redhead. A star who can redeem a lesser show with the luminous and happy magic of her own persuasive charm, she has also influenced the whole trend of musical comedy dancing."

ON TOP

Alec Guinness

"Probably the most protean actor of our day, is a quiet Britain whose fame relies not on personality or profile, but on a consummate mastery of acting as an art, from sly, daft drollery to complex tragedy."

ON THE WAY UP

Warren Beatty

Galfas

"A young man with enormous drive and an all-American look, left TV for Broadway which catapulted him to Hollywood."

ON THE WAY UP

Joan Hackett

Duane Michals

"Half Italian half Irish, and all witchery, last year won three top acting awards off Broadway."

ON THE WAY UP

George Maharis

Duane Michals

"Ex-auto mechanic, ex-marine,ex-Neighbourhood Playhouse, starred off Broadway in "The Zoo Story," has a new TV series, "Route 66," is headed for a film career."

ON THE WAY UP

Alvin Ailey

Duane Michals

"Featured dancer in musicals, movies, and television, was kited into the critics' den by his illuminating performance as a serious actor in Call Me By My Rightful Name, off Broadway."

Anne Bancroft

Bruce Davidson

"I was always able to say okay, here I am, mold me."

Monica Vitti

John Ross

"In life, on film - an adventure."

Orson Welles

Kenneth Tynan

"Portrait: of the legendary genius whose greatest production is, and always will be, his own life."

THE WORLD OF SHOW

Gordon Parks

Cyd Charisse

Gordon Parks

HOW TO SAVE BROADWAY

Gordon Parks

SHOW - The Magazine of the Performing Arts Volume #1 October 1961

Produced by:Huntington Hartford II 

From Misspent Millions to a Fist Full of Dollars:

George Huntington Hartford II, named after his grandfather, George Huntington Hartford I, founder of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, grew up in Newport, Rhode Island with his mother, Henrietta, and sister, Josephine, after the death in 1922 of his father Edward Hartford. The senior Hartford left his shares in the A&P fortune to his two children.

Hartford showed a rebellious streak early on when, during his studies at Harvard, he married 18-year-old Mary Lee Epling, a dentist’s daughter considered by his mother to be below their ilk; the union did not please her.

Though Hartford went on to graduate, he became a regular of the then-popular New York nightclub, El Morocco, and soon became enamored of a young showgirl with the stage name Mary Barton ne: Mary Chastain Grundhoefer. In 1938 their son, Edward Colt was born out of wedlock – a scandal for the times.

Meanwhile, Hartford’s wife Mary Lee had started an affair of her own with the dashing Hollywood actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., whom she married a year later and remained with until her death in 1988.

By 1940, tiring of his showgirl, Hartford set his sights on dancer and actress, Arline Judge. Arline began her career as a dancer in Jimmy Durante’s stage act, and then transferred to a ‘B’ movie film career after meeting up with the director Wesley Ruggles whose film ‘Cimarron’ won the Academy Award for best picture in 1931, the year they married.

Hartford met his match in Arline Judge. A woman with a healthy appetite for the chase, Arline left Ruggles for the wealthy playboy Daniel Reid Topping, former co-owner of the New York Yankees, and, less than a month after their brief marriage, married hotel executive James Bryant all while Hartford was in hot pursuit.

During her brief marriage to Bryant, Hartford gifted her with a $65,000 orchid-pink diamond. Her marriage to Bryant would be over within a year. So would her relationship with Hartford. Arline went on to marry another five times.

By the late forties Hartford had set his sights on Hollywood and was a regular on the Hollywood social scene, arm-in-arm with the actresses of that era. He launched a modeling agency in Los Angeles and New York to ensure his reach on the babes of the day.

On a night out at Ciro’s in West Hollywood, Hartford met his next wife - 18-year-old cigarette girl and aspiring actress, Marjorie Steele. Proffering a 22-carat near-flawless diamond engagement ring, they wed at the close of the decade.

During the fifties Marjorie pursued her career as an actress, while Hartford continued his pursuit of females and the good-life. They traveled between homes in New York, Hollywood, Palm Beach and Cap d’Antibes. By the late fifties they shared a risqué and alcohol-fueled lifestyle that was a harbinger of the decade ahead. Hartford, now with a teenage girlfriend, would end the fifties in the Bahamas, where he would go on to purchase most of Hog Island – now, Paradise Island. He also started work on a new project, Show Magazine, a magazine devoted to the performing arts.

Marjorie Steele filed for divorce in 1960.

Hartford spent most of the sixties based out of the newly named Paradise Island with a new love, 19-year-old model Diane Brown. Their marriage was a rocky one. Brown’s on-going infidelity with Bobby Darin created a rift that could not be repaired. They has one child, a daughter, Juliet

The seventies saw Hartford marry one more time. At the age of 63, he married Elaine Kay, a 20-year-old hair stylist from Florida. They shared a common interest in drugs and spent their days closeted inside Hartford’s Manhattan apartment.

Drugs and a lavish lifestyle robbed Huntington Hartford of his wealth and his health. He filed for bankruptcy in 1992 and spent his final years bedridden at his home in Lyford Cay, Nassau, with daughter Juliet at his side.

George Huntington Hartford II

1911 - 2008

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