Alberto Vargas(1895-1983)
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A prolific painter of the entertainment industry's biggest stars.
Beginning in 1919, Vargas painted all the Ziegfield stars including
Billy Burke, Marilyn Miller, Paulette Goddard, Eddie Cantor and W. C.
Fields. In 1927, he began working for Paramount Pictures, creating the
original artwork for Glorifying the American Girl. He was later hired
by Twentieth Century Fox to produce pastel portraits of their stars,
and commissioned by Hellmann's Mayonnaise to paint movie star portraits
to be used in their advertising campaigns. He moved on to Warner
Brothers, then to MGM. In October 1940, he began working for Esquire,
yet continued to paint movie stars, and produced the poster for Moon
Over Miami featuring Betty Grable. During this period he also painted
Linda Darnell, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Jane
Russell, Ann Sheridan, and Loretta Young. In 1951 He created a pin-up
of Shelley Winters for the RKO movie Behave Yourself. Toward the end of
his life he designed the album cover for The Cars' Candy-O, and two
more for Bernadette Peters.
