synopsis

Bert Stern's meteoric career began as a mailroom-boy at Look Magazine, where he formed a close relationship with a young staff photographer, Stanley Kubrick. The launch of Stern's career and the Golden Age of Advertising would coincide with Stern's Driest of the Dry campaign for Smirnoff. This ad would sold more vodka than Smirnoff dreamed, making America for the first time a vodka drinking country, and Stern a very successful photographer at the age of 25. Photographing all of the world's most beautiful women like Jean Shrimpton, Suzie Parker, Audrey Hepburn, Bridget Bardot, Twiggy, Liz Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe, the kid from Brooklyn was living a dream. BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN is a story of creativity, celebrity, and desire through the eyes of a man who got everything he wanted. Almost.