Remembering Ray Milland on his birthday 🎂
📷 Martha Holmes, 1946
“In Lost Weekend Milland suddenly revealed himself as an actor capable of showing all the flaws in attractiveness.”
- David Thomson
Coffee with Ray Milland 📷
This was taken during the filming of The Lost Weekend, 1944, by Jerry Cooke. That *may* be Billy Wilder behind him.
Another shot of Ray Milland by Jerry Cooke, 1944.
These were taken in a coffee shop on Third Avenue in New York.
Another Jerry Cooke shot of Ray Milland on the set of Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, 1944. He's under the Third Avenue elevated train.
Ray Milland won the Best Actor #Oscar in 1946, & in 1947 he presented an Oscar to Laurence Olivier.
Wait... didn't Frederic March win in 1947?
Yes, Larry got an Honorary Award "for his outstanding achievement as actor, producer & director in bringing Henry V to the screen".
Ray Milland & Charles Laughton in John Farrow's The Big Clock
📷 Jack Birns, 1948
Ray Milland is the guest - & obviously having a great time - on Gertrude Lawrence's radio show.
📷 Gjon Mili, 1943
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