Kate Winslet on the untold story of Lee Miller - ABC listen

A cover girl for Vogue magazine in the 1920s, Lee Miller became a celebrated Second World War photographer who would "rather take a picture, than be one".

In a new film, Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet plays the war correspondent and told Raf Epstein on ABC Melbourne she could not bear the idea that Lee Miller "stay in the shadows".

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Melbourne, Film (Arts and Entertainment), History