THE story behind the iconic Columbia Pictures “torch lady” logo can be traced back to a graphic designer who posed in a photoshoot wearing bedsheets. In 1991, Times-Picayune reporter Kathy ...

In the first logo, Lady Liberty was seen carrying a shield and what it looks like a laurel wreath sword. Only in 1928, the logo was updated to feature the muse carrying a torch, an image that has ...

Columbia Pictures' 'Torch Lady' has introduced us to films since 1924, but in 1991 New Orleans artist Michael Deas was commissioned by the film studio to update its iconic logo.

Columbia Pictures’ 1992 Lady Liberty. From 1976 to 1981, Columbia Pictures retired Lady Liberty from the screen. The logo was later rescued in 1982 after The Coca-Cola Company purchased the studios.

Columbia Pictures and its 100 years in business are celebrated at ... the Lady with a Torch, the Statue of Liberty-like female figure draped in the American flag that has become recognizable to ...

The Locarno retro, titled “The Lady With the Torch –– The Centenary of Columbia Pictures,” is being curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director of Italy’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival ...

Lady Columbia, also known as the Torch Lady and Lady Liberty, has an interesting past. No one seems to know who the first model was, if indeed there was a model. She made her first appearance in ...