Art Deco Ocean Liners: From the High Seas to the Silver Screen

ADSNY will celebrate the romance of Valentine’s Day with an enchanting illustrated talk presented by three engaging experts!

Sign up today to join Howard Mandelbaum and Eric Myers, authors of Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood, as they offer an illustrated talk about how the design of the great Art Deco ocean liners became the backdrop for many of Hollywood’s most romantic films of the 1930s.

Bill Miller, acclaimed ocean liner expert, will elaborate on how Hollywood reflected the opulence and glamour of real-life transatlantic voyages on iconic Art Deco liners.

The evening will be filled with rich images of the famed stars of the silver screen falling in and out of love on the high seas and stories of their real-life counterparts and their transatlantic adventures.

Ocean liner programs fill quickly, so you are urged to claim your space today!

About the Speaker:

Howard Mandelbaum and Eric Myers are the authors of Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood and Forties Screen Style: A Celebration of High Pastiche in Hollywood. 

Mandebaum is the co-founder, with Carlos Clarens, of Photofest, a library of images of the performing arts. Myers is the author of the biography Uncle Mame: The Life of Patrick Dennis. A former film publicist with credit on over sixty feature films, he is now a literary agent, delighting in bringing other authors to print.

Bill Miller, also known as “Mr. Ocean Liner,” is an international authority on the subject of ocean liners and cruise ships. He has written over 80 books on the subject: from early steamers, immigrant ships and liners at war, to other titles on their fabulous interiors. In 2011, Miller was co-host for Ocean Liners in the Movies at Lincoln Center. His private collection includes 4,000 books on ships, over 15,000 photos, and some 1,200 miniature ship models.

$50

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