Robert Coburn was one of the most influential portrait photographers working in the major Hollywood movie studios from the 1930s to 1960s.
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| Classic beauties taken by Robert Coburn |
Coburn’s star subjects included Rita Hayworth, Joan Crawford, Kim Novak, Carole Lombard, William Holden, Glenn Ford, and Orson Welles. His most infamous portraits immortalized Hollywood’s greatest icons and helped to define this era as the Golden Age of Cinema.
In 1940, Robert Coburn began a twenty-year career with Columbia Pictures as the head of the still production department and the studio’s chief portrait photographer for many landmark films including “Picnic”, “Gilda”, and “The Big Heat”.
In both 1941 and 1943, Robert Coburn was awarded the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences’ Still Photography Exhibition Award.
Here below is a set of gorgeous photos that shows portraits of classic beauties taken by Robert Coburn.
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| Andrea Leeds in “The Real Glory” by Robert Coburn, 1939 |
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| Ann Miller by Robert Coburn, 1945 |
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| Carole Lombard portrait from “To Be or Not to Be” by Robert Coburn in 1942 |
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| Carole Lombard portrait from “To Be or Not to Be” by Robert Coburn in 1942 |
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| Carole Lombard portrait from “To Be or Not to Be” by Robert Coburn in 1942 |
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| Fay Wray by Robert Coburn, 1933 |
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| Frances Dee by Robert Coburn, 1933 |
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| Frances Farmer by Robert W. Coburn, 1936 |
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| Frances Farmer from “Come and Get It” by Robert Coburn, 1936 |
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| Gene Tierney from “Sundown” by Robert Coburn, 1941 |
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| Gene Tierney from “Sundown” by Robert Coburn, 1941 |
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| Hedy Lamarr by Robert Coburn, 1938 |
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| Hedy Lamarr by Robert Coburn, 1938 |
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| Hedy Lamarr by Robert Coburn, 1938 |
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| Jane Wyatt by Robert Coburn, 1935 |
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| Jinx Falkenburg by Robert Coburn, circa late 1940s |
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| Katharine Hepburn from Holiday by Robert Coburn, 1938 |
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| Kim Novak by Robert Coburn, 1953 |
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| Kim Novak by Robert Coburn, 1958 |
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| Kim Novak, “Bell, Book, And Candle” by Robert Coburn, 1958 |
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| Marilyn Monroe in “Ladies of the Chorus” by Robert Coburn, 1949 |
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| Maureen O’Hara by Robert Coburn, 1956 |
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| Merle Oberon by Robert Coburn, 1941 |
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| Merle Oberon by Robert Coburn, circa late 1930s |
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| Merle Oberon by Robert Coburn, circa late 1930s |
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| Merle Oberon from First Comes Courage by Robert Coburn, 1943 |
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| Miriam Hopkins from “Woman Chases Man” by Robert Coburn, 1937 |
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| Paulette Goddard by Robert Coburn, 1949 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from “Affair in Trinidad”, 1952 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from “Gilda”, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from “The Lady from Shanghai”, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth from “Cover Girl” by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from “Cover Girl” by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from “My Gal Sal” by Robert Coburn, 1942 |
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| Wera Engels by Robert Coburn, circa early 1930s |
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