Remembering Sidney Lumet on his birthday π
He directs Nina Foch & Stephen Elliott in a scene for a TV program.
Photo: Yale Joel, 1953
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 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.
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
π· Erich Hartmann, 1961
π· Erich Hartmann, 1961
Sidney Lumet directs Kenneth Haigh & Colleen Dewhurst in rehearsal for Albert Camus's Caligula
Photo: Friedman-Abeles, 1960
@NYPL digital collection
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
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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