Robert Coburn was one of the most influential portrait photographers who worked in many Hollywood film studios during the 1930s to 1960s. Coburn’s captivated some of the biggest Hollywood icons in his photographs and helped establish this age as the Golden Age of Cinema. Back in 1940, Robert Coburn started 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 such as “Picnic,” “Gilda,” and “The Big Heat.”
He was awarded the ‘Still Photography Exhibition Award’ by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences’ twice. Here is a set of gorgeous photos of classic actresses from the 1930s,1940s, and 1950s captured by Robert Coburn.
#1 Andrea Leeds in “The Real Glory”, 1939
#2 Carole Lombard portrait from “To Be or Not to Be”, 942
#3 Carole Lombard portrait from “To Be or Not to Be”, 1942
#4 Fay Wray, 1933
#5 Frances Dee, 1933
#6 Frances Farmer, 1936
#7 Frances Farmer from “Come and Get It”, 1936
#8 Gene Tierney from “Sundwn”, 1941
#9 Gene Tierney from “Sundown”, 1941
#10 Hedy Lamarr, 1938
#11 Hedy Lamarr, 1938
#12 Hedy Lamarr, 1938
#13 Jane Wyatt, 1935
#14 Jinx Falkenburg, 1940s
#15 Katharine Hepburn from Holiday, 1938
#16 Kim Novak, 1953
#17 Kim Novak, 1958
#18 Kim Novak, “Bell, Book, And Candle”, 1958
#19 Marilyn Monroe in “Ladies of the Chorus”, 1949
#20 Maureen O’Hara, 1956
#21 Merle Oberon, 1941
#22 Merle Oberon, 1930s
#23 Merle Oberon, 1930s
#24 Merle Oberon from First Comes Courage, 1943
#25 Miriam Hopkins from “Woman Chases Man”, 1937
#26 Paulette Goddard by Robert Coburn, 1949
#27 Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from “Affair in Trinidad”, 1952
#28 Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from “Gilda”, 1946
#29 Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from “The Lady from Shanghai”, 1947
#30 Rita Hayworth from “Cover Girl”, 1944
#31 Rita Hayworth from “Cover Girl”, 1944
#32 Rita Hayworth from “My Gal Sal”, 1942
#33 Wera Engels by Robert Coburn, 1930s
#34 Ann Miller, 1945
#35 Carole Lombard portrait from “To Be or Not to Be”, 1942
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That is definitely NOT Carole Lombard
