Los Angeles Times, 2004, He hung out with James Dean on the "Giant" set, shot Liz Taylor's first wedding and made love to Marilyn Monroe -- or so he told friends years later. During Hollywood's golden age, photographer Frank Worth saw its biggest stars as few mere mortals ever have: lounging in their boudoirs, killing time between shoots, brooding over open liquor bottles. The beautiful people liked Worth's straight-up, Brooklyn-bred personality and trusted him to keep their tawdriest secrets. When Worth died two years ago in a Hollywood hospital, few in the industry probably noticed his passing. By then his reputation had dimmed and his paparazzi shots were long out of circulation, mostly stashed away in his cluttered apartment. But through Tuesday, Worth's black-and-white glamour images are getting the red-carpet treatment at an open-to-the-public exhibition at Sotheby's auction house in Beverly Hills. Sponsored by the Diamond Information Center, a diamond-trade publicity group, the exhibition is being timed to coincide with the Academy Awards' 75th "diamond" anniversary, and will culminate in a charity auction hosted by Sharon Stone. But according to Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse, the exhibition's British identical-twin curators, no added glitter is needed to give luster to Worth's candid glimpses of Hollywood stars.

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