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Arbus was born in New York City of Jewish background, the son of stockbroker Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (née Goldberg). He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.
Arbus was also a music lover. Prior to becoming an actor, he was reportedly so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.
During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army. After completing his military service, he and his first wife, photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov, whom he had married in 1941) started a photographic advertising business in Manhattan in 1946. Arbus was primarily known for advertising photography that appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines, as well as the weekly newspaper advertising photography for Russek's, a Fifth Avenue department store owned by Diane's father.Edward Steichen's noted photo exhibition The Family of Man includes a photograph credited to the couple. The Arbus' professional partnership ended in 1956, when Diane quit the business; the couple formally separated three years later. Allan Arbus continued on for a number of years as a solo photographer, but was out of the business by the time the couple divorced in 1969.
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Plot
In 1958, in New York City, the upper class Diane Arbus is a frustrated and lonely woman with a conventional marriage with two daughters. Her husband is a photographer sponsored by the wealthy parents of Diane, and she works as his assistant. When Lionel Sweeney, a mysterious man with hypertrichosis (a.k.a. werewolf syndrome, a disease that causes excessive body hair), comes to live in the apartment in the upper floor, Diane feels a great attraction for him and is introduced to the world of freaks and marginalized people, falling in love with Lionel.
Keywords: 1950s, adultery, advertising, air-vent, anal-intercourse, anniversary-party, armless-woman, art, artist, attic
Lionel Sweeney: Cookie?
Diane Arbus: Why isn't she your girlfriend?::Lionel Sweeney: She doesn't touch me.
Diane Arbus: Why don't you tell a secret?
Diane Arbus: Why did you throw down the key?::Lionel Sweeney: You looked like you needed to come up to my place.
Diane Arbus: I want to take a portrait of you and your wife.::Lionel Sweeney: I don't have a wife.::Diane Arbus: Then I want to take a portrait of you. Just you.::Lionel Sweeney: Why do you want to take a portrait of someone you've never seen, Diane?
Diane Arbus: What is it?::Lionel Sweeney: Well, every month or so I'm able to breathe about five percent less. My lungs are disintegrating. It's getting harder and harder for me to breathe... deeply. In a matter of months, I'll drown without even swimming, because there'll be nothing left... of my lungs.::Diane Arbus: You're not dying.::Lionel Sweeney: Yes, I am.::Diane Arbus: No, you're not.
Lionel Sweeney: [holding an inflatable raft] I blew this up for you.::Diane Arbus: Why did you want me to shave you? Hmm? Why?::Lionel Sweeney: So I could swim out further.::Diane Arbus: Swim out?::Lionel Sweeney: Yes.::Diane Arbus: What are you saying?::Lionel Sweeney: [he struggles for words] That I want you with me.::Diane Arbus: What?::Lionel Sweeney: Diane.::Diane Arbus: What are you talking about? You want me to watch you die?::Lionel Sweeney: I want you with me, that's all.::Diane Arbus: But is this what you did? Made me fall in love with you to watch you...::Lionel Sweeney: I don't see it that way at all. I love you.
Man: What do you photograph?::Diane Arbus: Me? Oh no, I'm not the photographer. My husband is.
Diane Arbus: [to Lionel] I saw you through my window and right away I wanted to take a portrait of you.
Lionel Sweeney: [to Diane] Are you trying to seduce me?