50 Yrs. of Photographing Hollywood: The Hurrell Style Loretta Young and Tyrone Power. 1937 jacket photograph Excert: Pg. 134

"Loretta Young," says Hurrell, smiling, "was one of the most inventive subjects that I ever shot. She always had exciting ideas about the way that she should be photographed. She had radiance. I don't believe that we ever, during the next twenty-five years that we worked together, repeated a pose. She was a disciplined pro, having made her first picture, Naughty but Nice, for Mervyn LeRoy in 1927 when she was only fifteen. When I shot her during her television anthology show, which lasted from 1953 to 1961, she was just as bright and clever and just as cooperative. She is still just as radiant today!"

"Ty Power," Hurrell smiles, "was handsome and quite easy to shoot. But a certain depth in his eyes that came through in his photographs said more about him than anything else. Ty was quiet and gentlemanly, lithe and graceful, he posed willingly, without complaint." Power performed his duty in a collection of vapid, leading-man roles in the 1930's, but did not come into his own until the forties, especially with W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge in 1946 and Nightmare Alley in 1947.

"The day that I shot Loretta Young and him, I wanted to create a special feeling beyond the usual clinch. When I asked Loretta, who was wearing a terry-cloth bathrobe, to lift her chin and saw that great swan neck, I moved Power behind her. I asked her to lower the material around her shoulders, then I lighted her face from the front, while Ty made up the background. It was one of the most unusual compositions that I ever made."