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
Martha Swope
James Earl Jones & Christopher Plummer in Othello, 1981 @NYPL digital collection
Christopher Plummer with Jonathan Miller in a wonderful portrait by Richard Avedon
This is from the 2002 Broadway production of King Lear.
Plummer on Miller's Lear:
Christopher Plummer
A fine portrait by Christian Anwander
"He could underplay on film because he knew how to play big onstage; he had long since mastered his register and was not afraid of extremes."
- Jesse Green
Christopher Plummer by Yousuf Karsh, 1959
Karsh also took a 1982 photo of Plummer as Iago & James Earl Jones as Othello, but I've never seen it.
The 1994 Broadway production of Pinter's No Man's Land, with Jason Robards & Christopher Plummer @nypl digital collection
📷 Martha Swope
A fabulous bad guy performance by Christopher Plummer in Darryl Duke's cult classic Silent Partner. If you're looking for a great Xmas movie that isn't It's a Wonderful Life or Die Hard, search out this 1978 film.
The still photographer on the set was Laszlo Szilvassy #stillonset
Christopher Plummer, Angie Dickinson, Anthony Quayle?
Count me in! I'd love to see this made-for-tv version of Dial M For Murder, shown on NBC in 1981.
Great chemistry between Christopher Plummer (Holmes) and James Mason (Watson), in one of my favourite Sherlock films, Murder By Decree.
📷 Kent Gavin, 1978
A candid moment between Holmes, Christopher Plummer, & Watson, James Mason, in the very fine Murder By Decree, released in 1979.
📷 Peter Marlow, London, 1978
Jill Dixon & Christopher Plummer in Richard III.
📷 Hank Walker, 1961
Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music, 1965
📷 Douglas Kirkland
Pauline Kael noted the "archly decadent performance by Christopher Plummer - he of the thin, twisted smile; he seems to be in a different movie altogether."
The Sound of Music by Al Hirschfeld, 1964
He captures Christopher Plummer as the Baron perfectly! He also takes the time to make each child a proper portrait. I love Julie Andrews's outfit & haircut. And the kids!
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in a marvellous 2015 photograph by Annie Leibovitz
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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: