George Hurrell is the best-known of the Hollywood photographers, a failed painter who was acclaimed the “Rembrandt of Hollywood” after he virtually invented the Hollywood glamour portrait. Before his arrival in 1930, movie star portraits were soft and conservative. Hurrell threw out the “soft focus” lens and instituted a sharp, dramatic look, lit with a spotlight and framed with an unerring sense of composition. Hurrell also had the ability to make his subjects look both spiritual and sensual—Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Veronica Lake, Marlene Dietrich.