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Old Hollywood GlamourAnd the man who invented it.

By Virginia PostrelPosted Friday, Feb. 25, 2005, at 7:17 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay about Hollywood photographer George Hurrell.

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Virginia Postrel is the author of The Substance of Style.

Photographs of: George Hurrell's business card, circa 1933, with photo of Joan Crawford, courtesy of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive; Pancho Barnes, 1928, courtesy of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive; Norma Shearer in her first photo session with Hurrell, 1929, from the collection of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive; Jean Harlow in an Adrian gown for Dinner at Eight, circa 1933, photograph by George Hurrell, printed by Sid Avery; Norma Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, circa 1932, from the collection of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive, courtesy Palm Springs Desert Museum; Dorothy Jordon, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1930, from the collection of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive, courtesy Palm Springs Desert Museum; Dorothy Lamour, courtesy of the Estate of George Hurrell; Jean Harlow, gelatin silver print, 1936, from the collection of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive, courtesy of the Palm Springs Desert Museum; Myrna Loy, gelatin silver print, from the collection of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive; Joan Crawford, circa 1932, collection of the estate of George Hurrell; Sharon Stone, 1993, courtesy of J. Grier Clarke © George Hurrell "Legends in Light" 1993; Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1979, courtesy of George Hurrell Jr.

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