Antony Penrose

Antony Penrose

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Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline
Title: Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2020
Type: Movie
A documentary celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter who defied anyone who tried to pin her down, put her on a pedestal or pigeonhole her in any way. The film's director, Teresa Griffiths, and editor, Clare Guillon, won the 2021 British Academy Television Craft Awards for Factual programs.
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Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist
Title: Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist
Character: Himself
Released: December 10, 2017
Type: Movie
British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth. This film explores her dramatic evolution from British debutante to artist in exile, living out her days in Mexico City, and takes us on a journey into her darkly strange and cinematic world.
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Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing
Title: Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing
Character: Self
Released: August 25, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to cover the Second World War. Having given up photography in later life and virtually disowned her own work, Miller's extraordinary archive of 40,000 negatives was only rediscovered after her death. George Melly, David Hare, friends, colleagues and her only son, Tony Penrose, trace the story of her unconventional life through her own remarkable pictures and photographs, as well as rarely seen archive footage.
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Lee Miller: Through the Mirror
Title: Lee Miller: Through the Mirror
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Biographical documentary of Lee Miller (aka Elizabeth Miller, 1907-1977), her early years in USA under her father's influence, later became a model turned artist and celebrated photographer, including her photojournalism during WWII, and her second marriage to British surrealism painter Roland Penrose postwar. Film is told through interviews with Miller's son, Antony Penrose.