An autobiography of sorts, notions of beauty, celebrity and power in the Western World through the 20th century; almost 1,500 portraits, including 642 in colour; comments by Noel Coward, Igor Stravinsky, John Gielgud, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rebecca West, Anita Loos, and Orson Welles; other notes by the author, short biographies of all the subjects.