#Don Bachardy

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David Hockney

Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 1968. Acrylic on canvas, 212 x 303.5 cm. Private collection

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Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood (1968) painted by David Hockney

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📸 by Cecil Beaton: David Hockney, Maudie James & Peter Schlesinger

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Don Bachardy (b. 1934)

Mary Woronov, 1989

Watercolor and gouache on paper, 29 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. 

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the 22 players from robert altman's short cuts (1993), illustrated by don bachardy

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Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood

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 noelcowards-addressbook

Don Bachardy: Portrait of Christopher Isherwood

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Paul Wonner Santa Monica Canyon (View from the deck of Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy) 1964

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Frankenstein The True Story (1973)

This is where my love for the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists intersects with my love of gothic literature, mad scientists, and monsters. This out-of-print paperback in today’s mail is the screenplay of FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY, a 1973 two-part TV movie written by Christopher Isherwood (friend of E. M. Forster, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and others) and his partner, the artist Don Bachardy. The original title, “Dr. Frankenstein,” got changed at the last minute by NBC TV. The movie is really very good, although I understand there are some significant differences from the screenplay as Isherwood and Bachardy wrote it. The actors Leonard Whiting and Michael Sarrazin (shown in the second pic) are both beautiful as Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature, respectively (well, the Creature starts out beautiful but then decays). The ever-bewitching Agnes Moorehead, post-Endora, is both campy and dignified, as always, as the landlady who finds herself hypnotized by the mad scientist, Dr. Polidori, played by James Mason. (This version of the Frankenstein story has three mad scientists, not just one!) I’m looking forward to reading the screenplay, then rewatching the movie on blu-ray with commentary track by Sam Irvin — who, as co-executive producer of the magnificent movie “Gods and Monsters,” is no stranger to Frankenstein lore. Sam Irvin has also written the award-winning book, “The Epic Saga Behind FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY,” which is in my TBR stack. 

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Portrait of Deborah Kerr by Don Bachardy, 1961

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Christopher Isherwood and partner Don Bachardy, art by David Hockney and reference photos.

Christopher Isherwood e parceiro Don Bachardy, arte de David Hockney e fotos de referência.

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Don Bachardy Morrissey, Paul 07-04-71 I 1971

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Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood in front of their portrait painted by David Hockney. (c.1970's) photographed by Calvin Brodie. Bachardy and Isherwood met in 1952 on a beach in Santa Monica. Bachardy was 18 years old and Isherwood was 48. They spent their first night together on February 14th, 1953. They remained a couple for 33 years until Isherwoods passing in 1986. The book The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy  chronicles their relationship between the years of 1960-1970. There is also a documentary on their relationship, Chris and Don: A Love Story.

Don Bachardy still lives in the house he shared with Isherwood in Santa Monica. He is a painter with works in numerous museums. He paints for gallery shows and private commissions.

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Don Bachardy (b. 1934) Ian Falconer, 1982 Acrylic on panel, 40 x 24 in.

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Interior shot of the home of writer Christopher Isherwood and his partner, artist Don Bachardy.

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Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American actress most known for It Happened One Night (1934). Despite both her marriages being seemingly legitimate and loving, rumors of Claudette’s affairs with other actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Marlene Dietrich followed her for her entire career. Most notably, Claudette had a very public intimate relationship with the "out" lesbian artist Verna Hull in the 1950s. Although Claudette denied the rumors that she was bisexual or a lesbian, she and Verna rented a home together in New York City and even had neighboring vacation homes in Barbados. The relationship ended abruptly and on bad terms in the early 1960s after the death of Claudette’s husband. When Claudette passed away on July 30, 1996, she left her entire estate to another woman named Helen O’Hagan, whom she instructed in her will to be treated “as her spouse.” "She certainly moved with great ease in gay circles," said a friend. "I used to see her at George Cukor's, and there would be quite the carrying-on. She was never shocked. It was a world she was comfortable in. It was taken for granted that she was gay, or at least not conventionally straight." "We used to call her "Uncle Claude"," said Don Bachardy, the lover of the writer Christopher Isherwood. "Actually, I think she's really a good example of a very closeted situation. Only well within her own circle did they know the truth."

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