Remembering Sidney Lumet on his birthday 🎂
He directs Nina Foch & Stephen Elliott in a scene for a TV program.
Photo: Yale Joel, 1953
"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen."
Sidney Lumet by Raphael Gaillarde, Paris, 1986
Sidney Lumet began as a child actor in the Yiddish Theater, & then on Broadway. His only feature film appearance is in 1939's ... One Third of a Nation... When he returned from his WWII service he went into television, & soon became a theatre/TV/movie director.
A great photo by Yale Joel of Sidney Lumet directing a TV program in 1953. Joel was one of the best of the many, many great photographers who worked at Life.
Sidney Lumet as Jesus in Journey to Jerusalem
Photo: Horst P. Horst, Vogue, 1940
The great director began as a child actor.
Two Nigel Parry portraits of Sidney Lumet. Today we're celebrating the birthday of the great director.
Sidney Lumet on the set of A Long Day's Journey Into Night
📷 Erich Hartmann, 1961
Sidney Lumet directs Kenneth Haigh & Colleen Dewhurst in rehearsal for Albert Camus's Caligula
Photo: Friedman-Abeles, 1960
@NYPL digital collection
Another shot of Sidney Lumet as a child actor. With Philip Loeb in William Saroyan's My Heart's In The Highlands.
Photo: Alfredo Valente, 1939
@NYPL digital collection
"The young Sidney Lumet plays the part of the son with wholesome, filial affection."
- Brooks Atkinson
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