Happy birthday Jean-Louis Trintignant 🎂
📷 Angelo Novi
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, 1970
"With an instinctive gift for creating characters of memorable complexity, Trintignant has long been one of Europe's most brilliant & restlessly inventive actors."
- Paul Chutgow
Jean-Louis Trintignant by Sam Lévin, Paris's preeminent portrait photographer. The first is from 1956, when Trintignant was 26; the second from around 1960, when he first achieved the patented Trintignant stare. @MAPatrimoine
Jean-Louis Trintignant & Michèle Mercier by Sam Lévin, 1965.
The two starred in Bernard Borderie's film Merveilleuse Angélique that year.
Jean-Louis Trintignant with Romy Schneider & Anne Wiazemsky on the set of Pierre Granier-Deferre's Le Train
📷 Michel Ginfray, 1973
Here's a good-looking bunch at Françoise Sagan's play Happiness, Odd & Pass. With her stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Daniel Gelin and Juliette Greco.
Edouard VII Theater, Paris, December 30, 1964
Jean Louis Trintignant with Jane Birkin on the set of Michel Deville's Le mouton enragé
📷 Jean Gaumy, 1973
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Alain Robbe-Grillet & Philiipe Noiret on the set of Le Jeu avec le Feu.
📷 Frederic Proust, 1975
Jean-Louis Trintignant & Sylvia Kristel in Alain Robbe-Grillet's Le Jeu avec le Feu (Playing With Fire), 1975.
The still photographer on the set was Robbe-Grillet's wife Catherine.
A change of pace for Jean-Louis Trintignant: Il grande silenzio, a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci, 1968.
Two still photographers on the set: Francesco Bellomo & Armando Pietrangeli #stillonset
Catherine Deneuve & Jean-Louis Trintignant in Claude Berri's Je vous aime
📷 Bernard Prim, 1980
Jean-Louis Trintignant & Irène Jacob in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours: Red, 1994
The still photographer on the set was Piotr Jaxa #stillonset
Jean-Louis Trintignant in Costa-Gavras's Z, 1969.
The still photographer on the set was Félix Le Garrec #stillonset
Stéphane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard & Jean-Louis Trintignant in Claude Chabrol's Les Biches, 1968.
The still photographer on the set was Helga Romanoff #stillonset
Jean-Louis Trintignant in Patrice Chéreau's Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, 1998
📷 Luc Roux
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Remembering Van Heflin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Carl Van Vechten, May 1938 @BeineckeLibrary
"Louis B. Mayer once looked at me & said ‘You will never get the girl at the end.’ So I worked on my acting."
Van Heflin was Athos in George Sidney's The Three Musketeers, 1948
With Gene Kelly, Lana Turner & Gig Young
The still photographer on the set was Ed Hubbell #stillonset
Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck & Margaret Lindsay in B.F.'s Daughter, 1948
Another photo by Ed Hubbell
Remembering Christopher Plummer on his birthday 🎂
📷 Hank Walker, 1961
"He had immense & myriad natural gifts: a leading man’s face & figure; a slightly aloof mien that betrayed supreme confidence; a sonorous (not to say plummy) speaking voice; & exquisite diction."
~Bruce Weber
Ralph Morse
Christopher Plummer & David Carradine in Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun, 1964
Plummer switched roles to play Atahualpa in the 1969 film; Robert Shaw took over the Francisco Pizarro role.
Christopher Plummer with E.L. Doctorow & Mike Nichols for the NY Shakespeare Festival's production of Drinks Before Dinner
📷 Martha Swope, 1978 @nypl digital collection
Happy birthday Dick Van Dyke @iammrvandy 🎂
📷 With Mary Tyler Moore in a great portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1964
"I just hit my marks and hope I think of something. I'm strictly a superficial actor."
Dick Van Dyke & Michael J. Pollard outside the theatre where they starred in the original 1960 Broadway production of Bye Bye, Birdie. @nypl digital collection photograph
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner & Richard Deacon at the 1964 Emmy Awards.
So many Emmys!
📷 Gene Lester
Remembering Emily Carr on her 150th birthday 🎂
🎨 Nan Lawson Cheney, 1937 @NatGalleryCan
"For the creative artist there is no finality, no one has said the last word on Emily Carr and no one ever will."
- Lawren Harris
(Canada's two greatest painters in one tweet) #EmilyCarr150
Emily Carr
Totem Walk at Sitka 1917
"So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born." #EmilyCarr150
At the Unformable Things: Emily Carr & Some Canadian Modernists show @artgalleryvic, from the summer of 2019. What a long, long time ago!
Canada's two greatest artists side-by-side: Emily Carr, Lawren Harris
Willy Ronis
Marie-Anne et Vincent, Paris, Noël 1951 #JoyeuxNoël
Willy Ronis
Semaine de Noël, Paris, 1954 #JoyeuxNoel
Willy Ronis
Semaine de Noël, boulevard Haussmann, Paris, 1956
"It is December 15, 1956. We are near the Chaussée-d'Antin metro station. I'm snooping. Suddenly a little girl holds out her arm and probably says to the newspaper seller: 'You put on your hood...'"
Happy birthday Bill Nighy 🎂
📷 John Swannell, 2010
"His acting CV is, in many ways, the modern British film industry. If there is a quality BBC film being made, odds are Nighy is starring in it."
- Henry Tobias Jones
“The look is—I suppose we’re going for a well-turned-out librarian. Librarian chic.”
- Bill Nighy describes himself in Sarah Larson’s Talk of the Town @NewYorker
📷 Brad Trent
Bill Nighy by Daniel Boud
"Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes."