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
Another shot from B.F.'s Daughter, a 1948 film by Robert Z. Leonard. This looks so good; I'd love to see it.
What a cast: Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn & Keenan Wynn
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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: