When Kate Winslet set out to try and make a film about the photographer Lee Miller, she knew it couldn't show everything. "She lived such a vast life, it would have been impossible to make a film about all of it,

Miller was an American photographer who became a correspondent for British Vogue during World War II, shooting everything from London after the Blitz to the liberation of Dachau. In 1945, David E. Scherman took a rather famous photo of her in Hitler’s bathtub in Munich.

Lee Miller, a Poughkeepsie native and acclaimed World War II photographer, is the focus of 'Lee,' starring Kate Winslet, which premieres Sept. 27.

Lee Miller, who captured some of the most harrowing photographs of World War II, started as a model and Surrealist photographer. Learn about her life and legacy that has inspired a major motion picture.

In the photo, Lee Miller sits nude in a bathtub. Positioned at the corner of the tub, as if looking over Miller’s shoulder, is a picture of the green-tiled bathroom’s previous owner:

In a new biopic starring Kate Winslet, Miller's many lives—as an artist, model, muse, cook and war correspondent—need little embellishment