Happy 90th birthday to the great Rita Moreno 🎂
A great shot by Phil Stern of Moreno during a rehearsal for West Side Story, 1961
"She’s obviously an icon for all the noteworthy reasons - but she’s a kick in the pants too.”
- Jackie Speier
Rita Moreno in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story
📷 Niko Tavernise, 2021
"I love what I do. The only way I can retire is if I can’t walk. And even then, there’s always a wheelchair - or roller skates."
Good-looking bunch at the 1962 #Oscars:
Rita Moreno & George Chakiris, Best Supporting Actress & Actor for West Side Story;
Greer Garson, accepting Best Actress for Sophia Loren for Two Women;
Maximilian Schell, Best Actor for Judgement at Nuremberg
📷 J. R. Eyerman
With Sally Struthers, Neil Simon & Rita Moreno during rehearsals for the Broadway revival of The Odd Couple.
📷 Martha Swope, 1985 @nypl digital collection
Moreno played Olive Madison & Struthers was Florence Unger. Gene Saks directed.
Rita Moreno, James Coco & Sally Struthers in Sam Bobrick & Ron Clark's play Wally's Cafe, 1981
📷 Martha Swope @nypl digital collection
Rachel Dennison, Valerie Curtain, Peter Bonerz & Rita Moreno in the sitcom 9 to 5, 1982.
Moreno played the Lily Tomlin role, while Curtin was the new Jane Fonda. Rachel Dennison is Dolly Parton's sister; guess who she played.
I thought I just dreamed this, but I looked it up.
Hollywood stars leave for a Civil Rights March
Including Marlon Brando, Rita Moreno, Harry Belafonte
📷 Larry Leach, August 28, 1963 @laplphotos
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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."