Lee Miller’s son Antony Penrose reveals his mum’s glamorous life as Kate Winslet plays her on film
GRINDING her muddy boots into the immaculate white bath mat, model turned photojournalist Lee Miller stripped off and lowered herself into the tub.Grinding her muddy boots into the immaculate white bath mat, model turned photojournalist Lee Miller stripped off and lowered herself into Hitler's private bathtubThe photograph, taken by her friend David E Scherman, caused a sensation.
“Lee wasn’t going to be a conventional woman in a conventional role, she was going to be creative and as naughty and outrageous as she wanted to be. But at the same time, she had this fantastic integrity and desire to do things of importance.”With such a colourful life, it’s not hard to see why Lee’s story became a passion project.
When she married, Lee had an open relationship with her husband in which they both took lovers. And she enjoyed an abiding friendship with Picasso., whose editor Edna Woolman Chase thought her beauty and confidence the perfect mix for the “modern girl” she had been looking for.In 1934 Lee met and married Egyptian businessman Aziz Eloui Bey and moved to Cairo. But she soon grew bored and returned to Paris in 1937 where she met Antony’s father, the surrealist painter Roland Penrose.
While researching his mum’s life, Antony was struggling to understand “why she was such a daring free spirit and why she never had really meaningful, loving relationships,” until her younger brother Erik revealed a dark family secret.“The family closed ranks and they made it an absolute secret. My dad wasn’t even told. The difficulty for Lee was how to cope with this trauma. She didn’t even tell her closest women friends.
“Then another guy falls in love with her. She’s sailing to France on a liner and he is in a little biplane and swoops over the liner and romantically drops red roses on to the sun deck and flies away — but crashes and dies. Lee was a woman who lived her life on her terms and she paid a horrific emotional price for all of it.“Kate came here endlessly to immerse herself in all this material. I think she read everything and she is so accurate in her portrayal of Lee,” Antony adds.
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