In
1938 Bruno Bernard settled in and set up his
first photo studio in the basement of his apartment in
Los Angeles. Agent Paul Kohner, who helped many Jewish
Europeans flee after the rise of Adolph Hitler and
re-establish themselves in Hollywood, who took notice
of Bernard’s work when Bruno Bernard opened his first
studio in 1940 on Robertson Boulevard. Kohner sent him
clients, thus bringing him to the attention of the
motion picture industry
Anita Ekberg by
Bernard of Hollywood
Bernard of Hollywood photographed most of the big
stars of Hollywood in the 1940's and 1950's, such as
Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, John
Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck,
Anita Ekberg, and of course Marilyn Monroe. It has
been said that he introduced Monroe to agent Johnny
Hyde, who landed her a contract with 20th Century-Fox
His artistic muse was the late, legendary
striptease artist Lili St. Cyr, a willowy long-stemmed
beauty of wit and elegance, a stunner with a sense of
humour. St. Cyr was one of Bernard’s more spectacular
subjects. Bernard of Hollywood's pin-up works range
from strippers, Vegas showgirls; unknown, poignantly
unnamed models; to all the starlets of the 1950's and
1960's.
