Photographs of Hollywood stars found in a dusty old filing cabinet in England are to be exhibited for the first time.
Thousands of images, including pictures of Audrey Hepburn and Dirk Bogarde, taken by photographer George Douglas were discovered at his Brighton home by neighbour and fellow photographer Roger Bamber, who inherited the property following his friend's death.
The negatives, which had not seen the light of day for years, include images from the 1940s to the 1960s of Gary Cooper, former US president Harry Truman, Roger Moore and Peter Sellers.
Just 30 pictures from the archive will go on display at Douglas's former home in Sillwood Road as part of the Artists Open Houses festival in May.
Photographer Nigel Swallow, who is living in the property, said it will take at least a year for Bamber and himself to sort through the photographs.
Swallow said: "It's something that should be taken very good care of and I am chuffed that I have been asked to look after the archive.
"The first priority is making sure we preserve George's work."
Douglas, whose nickname was Speedy George due to his fast-paced work ethic, worked for many years at Picture Post magazine.
He spent much of his time in California, but would spend his summers in Brighton, Bamber said.
Douglas retired to live in his house full-time in 2007 until his death in December 2010 at the age of 88.
Bamber said Douglas fell "more than a little in love" with Audrey Hepburn when he spent a fortnight photographing her in New York as she prepared for the Broadway production of Gigi.
In 1964, the Beatles asked him to become their photographer on the set of A Hard Day's Night.
"Paul McCartney had been impressed by George's portraits of his then girlfriend Jane Asher; but two weeks at the Twickenham Studios besieged by screaming teenagers was enough to persuade George that he was not cut out for pop photography," Bamber said.
Full listings for the Artists Open Houses can be found at aoh.org.uk.
