India, May 7 -- From the enigmatic Greta Garbo and the blisterning pair of Clark Gable and Joan Crawford to a bare-torsed sex symbol Johnny (Tarzan) Weissmuller, Washington, D.C.s National Portrait Gallery celebrates Hollywood of the 1930s with a 10-month-long show of iconic movie portrait photographer late George Hurrell. Sujoy Dhar takes a trip down the classic black and white world of dramatic light and evocative compositions

In the 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, big studios set high production standards inspiring filmmaking across the world. It was then that a portrait photographer named George Edward Hurrell (1904 1992) was hired by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) or the MGM Studios. Hurrell became within years as much of a hot property f...