As a famous fashion photographer, cecil beaton has established close cooperation with the British, American and French editions of the world-famous magazine Vogue, and has taken many classic photos for it. Cecil beaton's most brilliant development in film, TV and fashion was in 1950s, and a series of photos taken in cooperation with Marilyn Monroe were the best known. Vivien Leigh is the actress who has cooperated with cecil beaton the most. The first cooperation between cecil beaton and Vivien Leigh was in 1935. When Vivien Leigh appeared in the drama The Mask of Morality, she took a group of photos of Vivien Leigh for the English version of Vogue. After that, they started a cooperative relationship for ten years. From 1936 to 1947, cecil beaton * * * took five photos of Vivien Leigh for the British edition of Vogue, which excavated her retro temperament to the extreme. One of the most classic photos is the photo taken at 1936 of Vivien Leigh holding a siamese cat. 1944, cecil beaton worked as a photographer in the film Caesar and Cleopatra starring Vivien Leigh. 1947, he worked as a fashion designer for Anna Karelina starring Vivien Leigh, and the following year he worked as a fashion designer in Vivien Leigh's stage play The School of Scandal. Vivien Leigh under his lens is elegant, retro and elegant, with outstanding temperament. It can be said that he presented the most beautiful side of Vivien Leigh.

Celsi Beaton has a close personal relationship with Vivien Leigh. He calls her a "very good friend". 1956, cecil beaton spent three months to arrange the filming of Marilyn Monroe. Finally, she agreed. It took more than an hour to shoot at the Ambassador Hotel in new york. In the scene of cecil beaton, she leans against the ukiyo-e sheets, caressing the flowers and smiling. She admitted that this photo has always been her favorite. Later, she often signed postcards with this photo and sent them to her fans.

For Marilyn Monroe, cecil beaton sincerely praised her as "like water sprite written by the playwright Jean Giraudoux, a miracle of that era and a dreamy sleepwalker."