The National Portrait Gallery will present a second installation of Star power: photographs from Hollywood’s golden age by George Hurrell, with a new selection of 20 vintage photographs exploring timeless images of film royalty from the 1930s and 1940s.

Opening Feb. 13, 2026, this “encore” installation is curated from the Portrait Gallery’s collection of 70 portraits by George Hurrell (1904–1992), who rose to fame as the in-house portraitist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) before establishing his own studio. With a keen eye for lighting effects and artful posing, Hurrell magnified the stars and influenced popular standards of glamour.

The new selection of photographs will portray some of Golden Age Hollywood’s most memorable stars, including Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Dorothy Lamour, Myrna Loy, Mary Pickford, William Powell, Basil Rathbone, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Rosalind Russell and Barbara Stanwyck.