1946. In this publicity shot for Angel on my Shoulder, Anne Baxter poses demurely behind an ostrich-feather confection – a fashionable prop at the time (another great example is Bud Graybill’s award-winning shot of Hazel Brooks). She may look innocent, but she will go on to play the part of the scheming Eve Harrington in All About Eve. She will also win one Oscar and be nominated for a second in the course of her 45-year screen career. But her first claim to fame isn’t as an actress at all. It is that her grandfather was none other than the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. And she recalls that…
Like many famous men, my grandfather had been too busy to be a good father. But he was a charming grandfather. He designed plans for me for a doll-house. On his wedding night, he wore nothing but a red sash. Now that’s what I call a true romantic.