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National Portrait Gallery (NPG): What's on? - Introduction to the London "Cecil Beaton: Portraits" exhibition featuring over 100 photographs includes career and biographical information.
National Portrait Gallery (NPG): What's on? - Gallery description provided for "Cecil Beaton: Drawings", which complements his concurrent "Portraits" exhibition.
Bartleby.com - A list of quotations researched from "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" and "The Columbia World of Quotations".
Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Filmography of the twice winning Academy Award designer listed.

Cecil Beaton - Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 – January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
Mainbocher - ... American couturier who operated fashion houses in Paris and later New York from the 1930s through the 1960s. He is best known for designing Wallis Simpson's wedding dress and trousseau for her 1937 marriage to the former Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor) which was photographed by Cecil Beaton
Vanessa (opera) - Vanessa is an opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958, in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti.