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Remembering Gene Tierney on her birthday 📷
Apparently the painting of Tierney in Laura was an air-brushed photograph by Frank Polony. I can't think of a more impressive movie portrait. Peak art direction & set decoration, & don't forget the sitter! Image
#PhoneCallFromPaul tweet on Gene Tierney's birthday
A scene from Personal Affair, 1953 📞
@holdengraber talks with the most interesting people
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📷 Ian Jeayes Image
For Gene Tierney's birthday, this Vandamm photograph from the @nypl digital collection
Gene Tierney as Patricia Stanley and Elliott Nugent as Tommy Turner in "The Male Animal", 1940 Image
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Happy birthday Richard Kalvar 🎂
📷 Wet self-portrait, 2014
"Life is a farce, the skill is in showing it."
Coffee time! ☕️
Café "Au Sauvignon", Paris
📷 Richard Kalvar, 1974
Paul Newman at Le Mans, 1979
📷 Richard Kalvar
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Remembering Sid Avery on his birthday 🎂
"Sid shot almost every cinema giant of the mid-20th century & pulled off a feat surpassing even that: he captured them unguarded, stripping away the studio & PR artifice to find the people hiding underneath."
- Michael Callahan
Kim Novak by Sid Avery, 1956
Nelson Riddle with his long-time, blue-eyed, collaborator.
📷 Sid Avery, 1954
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Happy birthday William Gibson @GreatDismal 🎂
📷 Christopher Morris, Kitsilano Beach
"Gibson’s writing enters the bloodstream like a drug, producing a mild hallucinogenic effect that lasts for hours."
- Pagan Kennedy Image
William Gibson @GreatDismal on the set of Robert Longo's Johnny Mnemonic
📷 Takashi Seida, 1995 Image
My favourite portrait of @GreatDismal, by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward @alexwh
"In March 1988 I photographed William Gibson in his home. Having just read his novel Count Zero I attempted to make Gibson look a cyberspace count, a Dracula with a remote." Image
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Remembering Jean Delannoy on his birthday 🎂
📷 Sam Lévin
"Going into the Billancourt studios briefcase in hand, you would have sworn he was going to an insurance office."
- Jean-Luc Godard
In Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard & Truffaut denigrated Delannoy & his "cinema of quality".
Willy Ronis
Tournage de La Part de l'ombre, Sonzay, 1945
A striking shot of Jean Wall during the production of Jean Delannoy's film. Ronis must have enjoyed the chance to take advantage of studio lighting.
@MAPatrimoine
The goat is trying hard to upstage Gina Lollobrigida in this shot by Raymond Voinquel. She was playing Esmeralda in Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, 1956.
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Remembering José Ferrer on his birthday 🎂
📷 Kurt Hutton
He's contemplating an assortment of noses for his role as Cyrano de Bergerac in Michael Gordon's 1950 film. He won an #Oscar for the movie, & a #Tony for the play; I'm trying to think of another instance of that happening.
José Ferrer & Judy Holliday both won acting Oscars on March 29, 1951. They were in New York that night, following the proceedings at La Zambra nightclub. They're having fun in this Slim Aarons shot.
Cyrano, meet Billie Dawn.
When José Ferrer wins for Best Actor, his close friend Gloria Swanson jumps for joy. Ferrer gets a hug from the eventual Best Actress winner, Judy Holliday.
📷 Hal Mathewson, 1951
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Happy birthday Frank Langella 🎂
📷 Paolo Pellegrin, 2009
“His Nixon in Frost/Nixon is one of the great, mysterious performances of modern times, not an attempt to imitate the president but a profound commentary on him nonetheless.”
- David Thomson Image
Frank Langella by Martha Swope
From the 1977 stage production of Dracula.
@nypl digital collection
Langella is one of the greatest of all Draculas. Image
The 1977 Dracula with Frank Langella featured stage designs by Edward Gorey. Image
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Remembering Oscar Levant on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jack Woods, on the set of Michael Curtiz's Romance on the High Seas, 1948
"My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin."
- The Memoirs of an Amnesiac Image
Aaron Copland & Oscar Levant laugh it up at a Leonard Bernstein party, photographed by Stanley Kubrick in 1949 for Look magazine
@MuseumofCityNY
I adore this shot! Image
“Schoenberg, who pretended to a certain omniscience, once said to me in his trembling husky voice, ‘I can see through walls.’”
- Oscar Levant, from his hugely entertaining (but very sad) auto-biography The Memoirs of an Amnesiac Image
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Remembering Don Hewitt on his birthday 🎂
📷 Librado Romero, 1999
"As a director & producer, Hewitt helped shape the early broadcasts of pioneers like Edward R. Murrow, Douglas Edwards & Walter Cronkite & oversaw CBS’s coverage of watershed moments."
- Jacques Steinberg
"It was a confrontation & a joint news conference, but nobody ever debated."
- Don Hewitt on the Nixon-Kennedy debate
Standards were a bit higher then!
"Kennedy knew how important this television appearance would be. Nixon kissed it off as just another campaign appearance."
- Don Hewitt
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Happy birthday Jane Birkin 🎂
📷 Nathaniel Goldberg, 2020
"The only way, really, of getting over grief is to make it into something else. You’re lucky if you’re a writer or a director or if you’re an actress because you can make it into something else."
Jane Birkin with her brother, Andrew, a fine photographer, in 1964
Andrew Birkin's photo of his sister Jane & Serge Gainsbourg, Oxfordshire, 1969
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Remembering Paul Éluard on his birthday 🎂
📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1944
The surrealist poet is looking at newly-liberated Paris from his balcony.
Man Ray's photograph of Paul Éluard & Pablo Picasso at the Hotel Vaste Horizon, Mougin, 1937
"With Picasso," said Éluard, "the walls come down."
Paul Éluard published "A Pablo Picasso" in 1944, and a number of other tributes to his friend followed.
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Remembering Edward G. Robinson on his birthday 🎂
📷 Harry Benson, 1967
"The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free." Image
Allan Grant
Edward G. Robinson bows to restaurateur Mike Romanoff, 1958
Shots like this, of the *real* Hollywood, are one of the reasons Life photographers were so good. They had the access to, & trust of, the people that readers wanted to see, going about their daily lives. Image
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden & Edward G. Robinson in The Cincinnati Kind, 1965
"Gentlemen, this game is five-card stud poker. There's no limit. No string bets. You can check and raise. A dead man has one half-hour to raise his roll outside and get back in the game."
[deals] Image
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Happy 90th birthday to the great Rita Moreno 🎂
A great shot by Phil Stern of Moreno during a rehearsal for West Side Story, 1961
"She’s obviously an icon for all the noteworthy reasons - but she’s a kick in the pants too.”
- Jackie Speier Image
Rita Moreno in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story
📷 Niko Tavernise, 2021
"I love what I do. The only way I can retire is if I can’t walk. And even then, there’s always a wheelchair - or roller skates." Image
Good-looking bunch at the 1962 #Oscars:
Rita Moreno & George Chakiris, Best Supporting Actress & Actor for West Side Story;
Greer Garson, accepting Best Actress for Sophia Loren for Two Women;
Maximilian Schell, Best Actor for Judgement at Nuremberg
📷 J. R. Eyerman Image
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Happy birthday Jean-Louis Trintignant 🎂
📷 Angelo Novi
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, 1970
"With an instinctive gift for creating characters of memorable complexity, Trintignant has long been one of Europe's most brilliant & restlessly inventive actors."
- Paul Chutgow Image
Jean-Louis Trintignant by Sam Lévin, Paris's preeminent portrait photographer. The first is from 1956, when Trintignant was 26; the second from around 1960, when he first achieved the patented Trintignant stare.
@MAPatrimoine ImageImage
Jean-Louis Trintignant & Michèle Mercier by Sam Lévin, 1965.
The two starred in Bernard Borderie's film Merveilleuse Angélique that year. ImageImage
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Happy birthday Wallace Shawn 🎂
📷 Catherine McGann, 1997
"I’m trying to write plays that are smarter than I am. I don’t fully understand them." Image
Wallace Shawn & Louis Malle on the set of Crackers
A marvellous photograph by Mary Ellen Mark, San Francisco, 1982 Image
Wallace Shawn, William Finley, Alan Arkin & Austin Pendleton in Marshall Brickman's Simon, c. 1980.
The still photographer on the set was Adger W. Cowans. Image
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Happy birthday Neil Young 🎂
📷 Mark Seliger
"An artist like Neil always has the upper hand. It’s the pop world that has to make adjustments."
- Bob Dylan Image
Neil Young in Peter Tork's pool, between rehearsals
📷 Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal Image
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal, 1969, for their album Déja Vu
@smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Wait, you count six? Ahmet Ertegun convinced CS&N to add Neil Young, & on Déja Vu they added session musicians Greg Reeves & Dallas Woodrow Taylor Jr. Image
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Remembering Jean-Pierre Melville on his birthday 🎂
📷 A. Abbas
"In Melville country, all slopes are slippery, some of them fatally so."
- Anthony Lane
Jean-Pierre Melville by Sam Lévin
"Transposition is more or less a reflex with me: I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing."
Jean-Pierre Melville gives us a wave from his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere
📷 Gaston Paris, 1956
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Remembering W. S. Merwin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Chris Felver, Berkeley, 1985
"It is as though the voice filters up to the reader like echoes from a very deep well, and yet it strikes his ear with a raw energy".
- Laurence Lieberman
W. S. Merwin by Douglas Kent Hall
"Merwin’s verse often gives the impression of language scavenged from the elements, its power reckoned only as its meanings assemble, phrase by phrase, against the white of the page."
- @dchiasso
W. S. Merwin by Bernard Gotfryd, 1960s
"He conveys in the sweet simplicity of grounded language a sense of the self where it belongs, floating between heaven, earth and underground."
- Peter Davison
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For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
📷 Elliott Landy, Woodstock NY, 1968
Outside his Byrdcliffe home, infrared color film
For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Jim Marshall
Bob Dylan (with Tire), New York, 1963
For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Barry Feinstein
Bob Dylan checks out an El Greco at @PhillipsMuseum, 1974
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William Steig
@NewYorker, December 14, 1968
#MerryChristmas
William Steig
@NewYorker, December 23, 1967
#MerryChristmas
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My #typewriter thread has gotten really long, so I'll start a new #machineaecrire one:
André Kértesz
Mme Eileen Hale Lake à sa machine à écrire, 50 West 12 Street, New York, 1938
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Love the hair, desk, flowers, typewriter & photo!
Emile Müller
René Lefèvre tapant à la machine à écrire, 1950s
He was an actor who worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, and René Clair.
Love the phone!
#PhoneCallFromPaul @holdengraber
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André Kértesz
L'écrivain Ilya Ehrenbourg à sa machine à écrire
Paris, 1929
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Philippe Halsman's #jump! photos are always fun, but today is an especially good time to leap into a whole bunch. The November 9, 1959 issue of Life Magazine had a jump shot feature, with Marilyn on the cover. #LeapDay
More Philippe Halsman #jump! shots for #LeapDay
Weegee. 1961
Steve Allen, 1959
More Philippe Halsman #jump! shots for #LeapDay
Phil Silvers, 1955
Kitty Carlisle & Moss Hart, 1958
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