Do you know anyone who is glamorous? No. At least, not for long you don’t. Knowing and glamour are incompatible. Glamour requires mystery or else it will wilt under the harsh light of reality.
That’s why glamour’s most natural and enduring habitat is the movies of the 1930s and 1940s, created in the wholly controlled greenhouse environments of Hollywood soundstages. The star system was at its height, and movies were designed, shot, and edited by practiced craftspeople expert in mediating those mysteries named Marlene Dietrich, Kay Francis, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant, to name a few.
