Talent Pool

Swimmin’ pools and movie stars--where would this town be without them? Separately, they symbolize different levels of the American Dream. Together, they’re the whole dang store, Tiffany’s burst open, sparkling with blue water, blue sky and sun-soaked smiles. Famous smiles. The curves of lips and hips, shoulder and breast. Grace Kelly reaching, Bette Davis lounging, Robert Mitchum standing, bare-chested, being Robert Mitchum. Hollywood distilled, with a water back. This is Los Angeles, the city we dream about when we don’t live here, and even when we do. In “Hollywood Pools: Classic Images of Legendary Stars,” recently published by Angel City Press, Frans Evenhuis and Robert Landau have scoured archives and studios for the perfect moments, the silent moments of water and starlight, of pure glamour.