Old Hollywood

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 Famed celebrity photographer Editta Sherman celebrated her 100th birthday this week with an exhibition of her greatest work.
Joe DiMaggio, Charlton Heston, Christopher Plummer, Henry Fonda and dozens of other stars sat before her in the Manhattan studio where she was known as the 'Duchess of Carnegie Hall.'

The flamboyant centenarian happilly shares her photographs with a new audience - since the world last laid eyes on her images in 1967.

Robert Evans

Yal Brynner

Susan Strasberg

 

Always ready with an enormous large-format camera, a vintage 1930s model, Editta began working with the American Theater Wing who supplied a steady stream of subjects.
'The stars would come in one by one. They just waltzed in,' she said. 'That was the feather in my cap.'

Stars: She began to study photography at an early age, apprenticing under her father, Nunzio Rinallo. Mr Rinallo was a wedding photographer and Italian immigrant who inspired his daughter to carry on in the family tradition. Noel Coward, right, and Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronin, left, are pictured

Smoking: Joe DiMaggio, Charlton Heston, Christopher Plummer, Henry Fonda and dozens of other stars sat before her in the Manhattan studio where she was known as the 'Duchess of Carnegie Hall.' Douglas Fairbanks, right, and Basil Rathbone, left, are pictured

Intense: She began to study photography at an early age, apprenticing under her father, Nunzio Rinallo. Mr Rinallo was a wedding photographer and Italian immigrant who inspired his daughter to carry on in the family tradition. Tyrone Power is pictured at right and Charlton Heston left

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