Remembering Howard Hawks on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ernst Haas, 1955
“In a very important way, this seeming American may have been against the grain of his time and place. That may help explain why the films grow in wonder.”
- David Thomson
Howard Hawks directs Joan Crawford & Gary Cooper on the set of Today We Live, 1933. The still photographer on this production was Frank Tanner.
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John Barrymore with Carole Lombard & director Howard Hawks on the set of Twentieth Century, 1934. The uncredited still photographer on the set was the great Bud Fraker.
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Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall in Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not, 1944
Hoagy sings "Am I Blue", & Slim* chimes in
* the story that Andy Williams' voice was dubbed in is an urban legend; Bacall did her own singing
The still photographer on the set was Max Julian
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Howard Hawks & his wife Dee by the pool in Monaco, with producer Charles K Feldman & his 'protegée' Capucine
📷 Slim Aarons, 1957
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