Movie Lovers

I spent a great deal of my youth watching old movies on TV. I was mad about Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn and Montgomery Clift. I couldn't get enough of those so-called 'women's' pictures, melodramas in the 1930s and 40s starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Old Hollywood offered me escapism and my ideas about love and romance were shaped by the passion I saw on the screen. For me in real life, no one ever measured up to expectations. Here are my pencil drawings of those Hollywood lovers.

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  Dancing Lady (1933) Clark Gable & Joan Crawford

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  Flesh & the Devil (1926) Greta Garbo & John Gilbert

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  Gone with the Wind (1939) Vivien Leigh & Clark Gable

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  Humoresque (1946) Joan Crawford & John Garfield

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  Charade (1963) Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn

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  A Place in the Sun (1951) Liz Taylor & Monty Clift

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  From Here to Eternity (1959) Deborah Kerr & Burt Lancaster

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  Casablanca (1942) Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman