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
Carl Reiner runs a table read for The Dick Van Dyke Show, December 2, 1963. 158 episodes over 5 seasons. The show won 15 Emmys.
📷 Earl Theisen
Another Earl Theisen shot of a Dick Van Dyke Show table read, December 2, 1963. So many funny people around this table, all at work adding lustre to the comic vision of Carl Reiner.
Another great portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1964
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke & Carl Reiner
Dick Van Dyke rides Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the London Easter Parade at Battersea Park
📷 Bela Zola, April 14, 1968
The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1961-69
In a 2015 interview Van Dyke said "I’d still be doing the show if they let me. It was the most fun I’ve ever had."
Another photo by Earl Theisen from the set of The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1963
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Frances McDormand, Wes Anderson, Timothée Chalamet & Lyna Khoudri on the set of The French Dispatch, 2021.
The still photographer on the set was Roger Do Minh #stillonset
I love this glimpse of the filming of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch by the still photographer, Roger Do Minh.
Another Roger Do Minh shot from the set of The French Dispatch.
Remembering Lore Feininger on her birthday 🎂
📷 Werner Rohde, 1929 @MuseumModernArt
The daughter of photographer Lyonel Feininger & his first wife Clara Fürst, she had her own Berlin portrait photography studio in the 20s & 30s.
Lore Feininger's portrait of the German actress Ilse Stobrawa, c. 1929
Remembering Don Hewitt on his birthday 🎂
📷 Librado Romero, 1999
"As a director & producer, Hewitt helped shape the early broadcasts of pioneers like Edward R. Murrow, Douglas Edwards & Walter Cronkite & oversaw CBS’s coverage of watershed moments."
- Jacques Steinberg
"It was a confrontation & a joint news conference, but nobody ever debated."
- Don Hewitt on the Nixon-Kennedy debate
Standards were a bit higher then!
"Kennedy knew how important this television appearance would be. Nixon kissed it off as just another campaign appearance."
- Don Hewitt
Happy birthday Jane Birkin 🎂
📷 Nathaniel Goldberg, 2020
"The only way, really, of getting over grief is to make it into something else. You’re lucky if you’re a writer or a director or if you’re an actress because you can make it into something else."
Jane Birkin with her brother, Andrew, a fine photographer, in 1964
Andrew Birkin's photo of his sister Jane & Serge Gainsbourg, Oxfordshire, 1969
Remembering Lee Remick on her birthday
📷 Allan Grant, 1962
"In the picture gallery of fine American actresses, she holds a special place. She was always, indubitably, Lee Remick; her beauty, both perky & patrician, & her obvious intelligence were hers alone."
- Charles Champlin
Lee Remick on her Ford Thunderbird
📷 Bob Henriques, 1959
Lee Remick on the set of Blake Edwards' The Days of Wine & Roses
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1961
Remembering Clark Terry on his birthday 🎂
📷 Roberto Polillo, 1970
"Terry stands as tall in the evolution of his horn as anyone who has emerged since 1940."
- Stanley Crouch
Clark Terry by Dennis Stock, 1958
One of Duke Ellington’s 4 star trumpeters, with Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker & Ray Nance
Clark Terry by Jack Vartoogian, from 1997
Straight, No Chaser, with Clark Terry on flugelhorn, with Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone: