Remembering Richard Harris on his birthday 🎂
📷 John Stoddart, 1990
"I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief, wrath deeply, like an Irishman."
Richard Harris on the set of Ridley Scott's Gladiator
A beautiful portrait by Jaap Buitendijk, 2000
Richard Harris at the opening night of Camelot in New York
📷 Elliott Landy, 1968
Hey! Isn't that John Wayne?
A superb portrait of Richard Harris by Nigel Parry
Parry remembers the shoot:
"I rode down on my motorcycle & it rained the whole of the way down. I only had one light that was left working because all of my lights got wet."
Remembering Richard Harris on his birthday 🎂
A scene from the revival tour of Camelot
📷 Martha Swope, St. Louis, 1986 @NYPL digital collection
He got to wear lots of crowns in his career.
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Happy birthday Julie Andrews! 🎂
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1957 #Jump!
Love these Gordon Parks photos of Julie Andrews & Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, 1960.
Happy birthday Julie Andrews 🎂
With Rex Harrison on the set of My Fair Lady
One of Cecil Beaton's best photographs
bromide fibre print, 1956 @NPGLondon
Remembering Philippe Noiret on his birthday 🎂
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1989
"He was a friend, a brother, someone I could count on for every adventure and whom I tried to serve by giving him different characters to play."
- Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret at home, in a great photograph by Micheline Pelletier
Philippe Noiret with Jean Rochefort & Jean-Pierre Marielle
📷 Luc Roux, Paris, 1996
Remembering Laurence Harvey on his birthday 🎂
Having fun on the set of The Alamo with John Wayne
📷 Wayne Miller, 1959
Laurence Harvey & Frank Sinatra in a @CentralParkNYC scene from 1962's The Manchurian Candidate.
📷 Phil Stanziola, via @LibraryCongress
Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962
There were two uncredited still photographers on the set: Bill Craemer & William Read Woodfield, neither of whom I know. But this is a great shot!
Remembering Walter Matthau on his birthday 🎂
With Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple, 1968. Great drawing by the sublime Al Hirschfeld.
Art Carney & Walter Matthau, the original Felix & Oscar on Broadway.
📷 Mark Kauffman, 1965
Art Carney woos Veruschka, who is being carried by Walter Matthau & Mike Nichols. Looks like Matthau is doing all the heavy lifting.
📷 Bert Stern, Vogue, 1965
Remembering Vladimir Horowitz on his birthday 🎂
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1966
"The music is behind those dots. You search for it, and that is what I mean by the grand manner. I play, so to speak, from the other side of the score, looking back."
Vladimir Horowitz by Jack Mitchell, 1988
"He hated to record in short sections & would do so only under duress. His artistry was worked out in the larger details. The smaller details came on the spur of the moment."
- his producer, Thomas Frost
Vladimir Horowitz by Ian Berry, 1982
"His Chopin is like a fire-ball exploding."
- Rudolf Serkin
Remembering Oscar Pettiford on his birthday 🎂
📷 Gjon Mili, Carnegie Hall, mid-40s
Pettiford played with Duke Ellington's band @CarnegieHall in January of 1946. open.spotify.com/album/5tzagfzs…
Love this album: Oscar Pettiford Orchestra In Hi Fi, from 1956
Featuring a great cover photo, by Hank Parker
Great arrangements, by Lucky Thompson & Gigi Gryce
William P. Gottlieb
Oscar Pettiford at the Aquarium
New York, 1946
I love his tie!