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."
Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse in Autumn de Wilde's Emma, 2020.
The still photographer on the set was Liam Daniel #stillonset
Bill Nighy as Billy Mack in Richard Curtis's Love Actually, 2003.
The still photographer on the set was Peter Mountain #stillonset
Bill Nighy as Douglas Ainslie in John Madden's The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2015
The still photographer on the set was Laurie Sparham #stillonset
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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...'"
Remembering Helen Frankenthaler on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gordon Parks, 1956
"If any artist can give us aid and comfort Helen Frankenthaler can, with her great splashes of soft colour on huge square canvases."
- Nigel Gosling
Helen Frankenthaler by Chris Felver
Stamford CT, 1991
"Her paintings, like Pollock’s, create their own imaginary space, mightier somehow than the gallery itself, as if they don’t stop at the edges of the canvas but are glimpses of one infinite work of art."
- Jonathan Jones
In 1969 Ernst Haas took a series of photographs of Helen Frankenthaler creating a painting in her New York studio. These rival Martha Holmes's 1949 Life photos of Jackson Pollock. Action!
There are 46 images on the Haas Estate website, here: ernst-haas.com/helen-frankent…