Remembering Rita Hayworth on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Florea, 1947
"If you watch Hayworth closely, you can see a woman playing with feminine artifice, constantly at work on the performance—and destruction—of carefully posed allure."
- @PamHutch
Rita Hayworth by Bob Landry, December 1945
For a Life magazine story about Gilda, & Columbia's $60,000 wardrobe purchase for the film.
Anselmo Ballester's poster for William Dieterle's Salome, 1953, with Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger & Charles Laughton. A Technicolor movie with a Technicolor poster.
"Celebrities are most interesting when they’re mating."
- Mike Nichols
Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, 1947. The still photographer on the set was Ned Scott.
Coffee with Rita Hayworth & Errol Flynn ☕️
📷 Ivan Dmitri, 1940
The most glamorous one can be and still be playing #PingPong: Rita Hayworth 🏓
Rita Hayworth by A. L. Whitey Schafer, 1938
"A whole different personality came out for the camera. It was an amazing transformation - or, rather, an amazing combination. You couldn’t believe the two were the same person!"
- Hermes Pan
Rita Hayworth by Philippe Halsman, 1950
"The complexity of her performances on-screen includes a subtly ironic quality that suggests a knowing self-awareness, a disarming ability to act inside quotation marks."
- @PamHutch
Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat! 🎩🪄
Orson Welles with Rita Hayworth, August 1943. The two were married the next month.
📷 Gene Lester
Philippe Halsman
Rita Hayworth being photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1943
Every time I see a shot like this I'm struck by how hard everyone works for a portrait, & not always just the subject & the photographer.
Rita Hayworth with her husband the Aga Khan at a Jacques Fath fashion show
📷 Robert Capa, 1951
Jack Lemmon, Rita Hayworth & Robert Mitchum
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1956
"I’ve never really thought of myself as a sex goddess, more as a comedienne who could dance."
Rita Hayworth dancing with Kirk Douglas, Ciro's, March 14, 1952
"Please boys, no more pictures." @laplphotos
Rita Hayworth by A. L. "Whitey" Schafer, 1940s
"Nothing is too difficult for her. She watches, goes home, practices up, and the next day she’s got it perfect."
- Fred Astaire
Philippe Halsman's photographs of Rita Hayworth show a different side of her. Is this relaxed, informal shot from 1943 closer to the real Rita, or is this just another role from a superb actress?
Rita Hayworth & Fred Astaire rehearse for a scene in You Were Never Lovelier, 1942.
📷 Earl Theisen
"I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire."
Xavier Cugat's cartoon of Rita & Fred dancing in You Were Never Lovelier, 1942. With Adolphe Menjou & Cougie himself.
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Gina Lollobrigida by Raymond Voinquel, 1956
This was taken on the set of Carol Reed's Trapeze @MAPatrimoine
Raymond Voinquel also took a series of photos of Gina Lollobrigida on the set of Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, also from 1956.
The goat is trying hard to upstage Gina Lollobrigida in this shot by Raymond Voinquel. She was playing Esmeralda in Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, 1956.
Remembering Melina Mercouri on her birthday 🎂
📷 Slim Aarons, Athens, 1961
"To laugh for the camera is hard. Dassin taught me. To laugh in life? I would die without!"
Melina Mercouri with Romy Schneider & Jules Dassin on the set of 10:30 PM
Summer, 1966
What a wonderful photo; the still photographer on the set was Antonio Luengo.
This Roger Corbeau portrait of Melina Mercouri, taken on the set of Jules Dassin's Phaedra in 1961, is in the full-blown glamour style of 1930s Hollywood.
Today is the Centennial of photographer Jerry Cooke 🎂💯
Cooke shoots jockey Johnny Longden at Churchill Downs, Kentucky, 1961, in a photo by his SI colleague Neil Leifer
"Jerry was the closest thing to James Bond that the photography world has ever seen."
- Neil Leifer
For the Jerry Cooke Centennial, I'll be posting my favourite photos of his #JerryCooke100
Coffee with Ray Milland ☕️
This was taken on the set of The Lost Weekend, 1944. That *may* be Billy Wilder behind him.
Celebrate the Jerry Cooke Centennial!
Boris Pasternak, 1958 #JerryCooke100
Remembering Barney Kessel on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jon Sievert, 1974
There's a searching quality to Barney Kessel's guitar improvisations: modern, cool harmonies slide in next to perfectly shaped bebop phrases, tame compared to the wild effusions that come next.
- Peter Watrous
Listening to Barney Kessel's 1954 album Easy Like
That's a William Claxton photo on the LP cover
I wonder who else is listening to Barney Kessel's Easy Like LP?
Clint Eastwood! He knows his jazz. This photo is from 1959
Remembering Montgomery Clift on his birthday 🎂
📷Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1952
"His sexually ambivalent, vulnerable characters were both revolutionary and ingenious; his influence invaluable to successive generations of actors."
- @christinalefou
Coffee with Montgomery Clift ☕️
A 1949 shot by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine.
The feature had this classic title:
"Montgomery Clift - Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants"
Elliott Erwitt's wonderful shot of Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter & Montgomery Clift on the set of The Misfits, 1961
Remembering Childe Hassam on his birthday 🎂
📷 possibly by Caroline Reed Parson, 1913 @ArchivesAmerArt
"I know of no other painter with his power to make the world look convincingly joyous with its own joy, & this he seemed always able to do."
- Elisabeth Luther Cary
On Childe Hassam's birthday, download the free PDF version of H. Barbara Weinberg's 2004 book Childe Hassam: American Impressionist metmuseum.org/art/metpublica…
Childe Hassam
Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals, 1901
This was the first Hassam painting to be acquired by @metmuseum