Editing Al Hirschfeld (section)

===Broadway, film, and more===
[[File:Hirschfeld's one-line drawing of Liza Minnelli.jpg|thumbnail|right|Liza Minnelli, ''Minnelli on Minnelli,'' 1999.<ref name="Liza Minnelli, Minnelli on Minnelli">{{cite web |last=Hirschfeld |first=Al |title=Liza Minnelli, Minnelli on Minnelli |url= http://www.alhirschfeld.com/cgi-bin/cat_alpha?CAT=A1#L |publisher=Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd. |access-date=May 23, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131112143537/http://www.alhirschfeld.com/cgi-bin/cat_alpha?CAT=A1#L |archive-date=2013-11-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]
Hirschfeld started young and continued drawing to the end of his life, thus chronicling nearly all of the major entertainment figures of the 20th century.<ref>''The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an artist and his age'', edited and with text by David Leopold, Knopf, 2015.</ref> During his eight-decade career, he gained fame by illustrating the actors, singers, and dancers of various Broadway plays, which would appear in advance in ''[[The New York Times]]'' to herald the play's opening. Though the theater was his best-known field of interest, according to Hirschfeld's art dealer Margo Feiden, he actually drew more for the movies than he did for live plays. "By the ripe old age of 17, while his contemporaries were learning how to sharpen pencils, Hirschfeld became an art director at [[Selznick International Pictures|Selznick Pictures]]. He held the position for about four years, and then in 1924 Hirschfeld moved to Paris to work and lead the Bohemian life. Hirschfeld also grew a beard, necessitated by the exigencies of living in a cold water flat. This he retained for the next 75 years, presumably because "you never know when your oil burner will go on the fritz."<ref name="Show Business">''Show Business is No Business'' (1983). New York: Da Capo Press, pp. Endnotes, {{ISBN|0306762218}}</ref>

In addition to Broadway and film, Hirschfeld also drew politicians, TV stars, and celebrities of all stripes from [[Cole Porter]] and the [[Nicholas Brothers]] to the cast of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. He also caricatured jazz musicians——[[Glenn Miller]], [[Benny Goodman]], [[Artie Shaw]], [[Tommy Dorsey]], [[Fats Waller]], [[Lionel Hampton]], [[Harry James]], [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Count Basie]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Billie Holiday]], and [[Ella Fitzgerald]]—and rockers [[The Beatles]], [[Elvis Presley]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Jerry Garcia]], and [[Mick Jagger]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Al Hirschfeld/Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd.|url=http://www.alhirschfeld.com|website=Alhirschfeld.com|access-date=December 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113064840/http://www.alhirschfeld.com/|archive-date=January 13, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1977, he drew the cover of [[Aerosmith]]'s ''[[Draw the Line (Aerosmith album)|Draw the Line]]'' album.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Elliott |first=Paul |title=Drugs and dysfunction: how Aerosmith made Draw The Line and Night In The Ruts |work=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Louder]] |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/drugs-and-dysfunction-how-aerosmith-made-draw-the-line-and-night-in-the-ruts |date=April 7, 2020 |access-date=December 24, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org/piece/aerosmith-2|title=Aerosmith|website=alhirschfeldfoundation.org|language=en|access-date=December 24, 2023}}</ref>

Hirschfeld drew many original movie posters, including for [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s films,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-end-of-the-line|title=The End of the Line|date=October 4, 2015|accessdate=December 23, 2023|last1=Kanfer |first1=Stefan|author-link=Stefan Kanfer|newspaper=[[City Journal]]}}</ref> as well as ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/al-hirschfeld-george-gershwin-rhapsody-in-blue|title=Al Hirschfeld, George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue: The perfect combination comes together|date=June 21, 2013|access-date=December 24, 2023|last1=Chandler |first1=Adam|newspaper=[[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]]}}</ref> The "[[Rhapsody in Blue]]" segment in the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] film ''[[Fantasia 2000]]'' was inspired by his designs, and Hirschfeld became an artistic consultant for the segment; the segment's director, [[Eric Goldberg (film director)|Eric Goldberg]], is a longtime fan of his work.<ref name="corliss" /><ref name="d23">{{cite news|url=https://d23.com/qa-with-eric-and-susan-goldberg-about-the-magical-musical-world-of-fantasia-2000/|title=Q&A with Eric and Susan Goldberg about the Magical, Musical World of ''Fantasia 2000''|date=January 28, 2020|accessdate=December 23, 2023|last1=Buhlman |first1=Jocelyn|newspaper=D23}}</ref> Further evidence of Goldberg's admiration for Hirschfeld can be found in Goldberg's character design and animation of the genie in ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' (1992).<ref name="corliss" /><ref name="d23" /> He was the subject of the Oscar-nominated [[documentary film]] ''[[The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story]]'' (1996).<ref name="corliss" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1997|title=The 69th Academy Awards {{!}} 1997|website=www.oscars.org|date=October 5, 2014 |language=en|access-date=December 23, 2023}}</ref>