In a garage in Ely, Cambridgeshire, hangs a portrait of Marilyn Monroe. On it she has written: ?My darling Jack, if only I could be how you made me look.? Jack Cardiff, cinematographer, photographer and director, who died in 2009, is famous as ?the man who made women beautiful?. In doing so, he found adoring fans ? and sometimes lovers ? among the most beautiful women of Hollywood, including Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn and Sophia Loren. Cardiff called Monroe, of whom he took a series of photographs during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956, ?as near perfect as any cameraman could wish for?. She in turn called him the best cinematographer in the world.