Rob Adrian, son of stume signer Gilbert Adrian and 'A Star Is Born' origal actrs Ja Gaynor, talks about his father's legacy and tribute book 'Adrian: A Lifetime of Movie Glamour, Art and High Fashn.
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AMY PRENTS CENTENNIAL SALUTE TO JA GAYNOR
* robin gaynor adrian *
Adrian shared the dwellgs wh his wife, Ja Gaynor (the first bt actrs Osr wner who starred David O. Adrian’s own personal observatns about his fay and iends, cludg Millicent Rogers and Loretta Young, as well as his far-flung travels (he and Gaynor sailed down the Nile 1949), have been sourced om his unpublished memoir. ) Meanwhile, he closed his Beverly Hills fashn hoe and retreated wh Gaynor to a ranch Brazil’s central-wt regn.
Rob Adrian spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about growg up amidst Old Hollywood opulence, his dad’s fastidns and preference for power shoulrs, his rivalry wh Christian Dr, and the relatnship Gilbert Adrian and Ja Gaynor shared. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialAmy Prents Centennial Salute To Ja GaynorLOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 06: (L-R) Pl Gregory, Ja Gaynor's Widower and Rob Adrian, Son of Gaynor, pose at the Amy of Motn Picture Arts and Scienc' Centennial Salute to Actrs Ja Gaynor held at the Pickford Center for Motn Picture Study, Lwood Dunn Theater on April 6, 2006, Los Angel, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Imag)LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 06: (L-R) Pl Gregory, Ja Gaynor's Widower and Rob Adrian, Son of Gaynor, pose at the Amy of Motn Picture Arts and Scienc' Centennial Salute to Actrs Ja Gaynor held at the Pickford Center for Motn Picture Study, Lwood Dunn Theater on April 6, 2006, Los Angel, California.
“My only disappotment is that he never received an Amy Award, ” says Rob Gaynor Adrian, the only son of Gilbert Adrian and actrs Ja Gaynor, who were married om 1939 until his ath om a cerebral hemorrhage 1959. Today he is nsired the preement llector of Hollywood stume sketch, though ’s clear this book’s subject holds a special place Stanley’s heart, as he discs gettg to know both Adrian and Gaynor while workg as an assistant for artist and signer Tony Duquette, exclaimg to Adrian durg one meetg, “I am your biggt fan!