Their story is told inLee, out this Friday.
The Lives of Lee Miller, written by Millers son Antony Penrose, formed the basis of the biopic.
ButLeealso explores Millers relationship with BritishVogues tenacious editor-in-chiefAudrey Withers, played by Andrea Riseborough.
Photographer and model Lee Miller in New York in 1932.
The one complemented the other and in short order they jointly placedVogueat the center of Britains home-front struggle.
A libertarian socialist, Withers was politically connected.
Its circulation soared sky-high.
The Lives of Lee Miller, written by Miller’s son Antony Penrose, formed the basis of the biopic.
Government circulars had no effect, so Bevin instructed Withers to decree that long hair was unfashionable.
Lee Miller took the pictures.
Within days, newspapers followed her lead and accidents of this kind dropped sharply.
Marion Cotillard appears as Solange d’Ayen, a confidante of Miller’s and an editor at the French edition ofVoguein the ’20s and ’30s.
She published what she felt she could.
Much of it was uncompromisingly grim, and in turn readers were astonished by what they read.
Her adventures were scarcely credible.
Withers published, among other images, the tangled limbs of corpses stacked high.
That very evening, Miller was billeted in an anonymous villa in a tree-lined Munich street.
It turned out to be Hitlers house.
It remainsperhaps her best-known photograph.
The war turned out to be the making of Audrey Withers.
But Miller was lost when it was over.
She tried to spin it out, reporting forVogueon Europes attempts to rebuild itself.
Withers implored her to return, but it took a telegram from Scherman to finally persuade her.
Go home, it said.
She did, eventually, but nothing would be the same again.
Lee Miller never opened up about her war.
Leeopens in theaters on September 27.
