Thread by @dean_frey

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

Jane Birkin & Agnes Varda on the set of Varda's Kung Fu Master, 1988
📷 Étienne George

Jean Louis Trintignant with Jane Birkin on the set of Michel Deville's Le mouton enragé
📷 Jean Gaumy, 1973

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
- Jane Birkin by Joseph McKeown, Paris, 1974
This time around, it's Graham Greene's Travels with my Aunt

*Every* singer wanted the late Jimmy Rowles as an accompanist. Beautiful piano playing by Rowles on Jane Birkin's version of These Foolish Things, & best of all, he sings too!

A powerful portrait by the late photographer Alice Springs aka June Newton #RIP

Dirk Bogarde & Jane Birkin on the set of Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia. The film was released in the UK as These Foolish Things.
I love this portrait of the two of them by Piet Goethals
@NPGLondon, 1990

Celebrating Jane Birkin's birthday today 🎂
With Serge Gainsbourg in a great shot by Georges Kelaïditès
Paris, 1969

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin by Terry O'Neill, 1969.
These two almost always deliver great photos, but O'Neill adds his own special sauce here.

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg with their daughter Charlotte
📷 Doreen Spooner, 1971

Coffee with Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin ☕️
📷 Ian Berry, London, 1970

Another superb photograph by Ian Berry of Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
London, 1970

#PhoneCallFromPaul tweet on Jane Birkin's birthday
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin by Ian Berry, 1970.
Paul @holdengraber talks with the most interesting people
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@lithub @CallFromPaul

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
A portion of their complicated relationship illustrated in two photos by Bert Stern for Vogue, 1970

Jane Birkin by her daughter Kate Berry, a talented fashion & portrait photographer.

"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" was first performed in 1940 in the London revue New Faces by Jane Birkin's mother, Judy Campbell.
📷 Picture Post, 1940

From a Vogue interview with Jane Birkin:
"Serge won my mother over because he reminded her of Eric Maschwitz, who wrote 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' especially for her."
en.vogue.fr/vogue-hommes/c… …
Maschwitz wrote the lyrics (Manning Sherwood the music)
📷 Sasha, 1937

Three generations of talent:
Actress-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, photographer Kate Barry (Jane Birkin's daughter with composer John Barry), Jane Birkin & her mother, actress-singer Judy Campbell, backstage at a memorial to Serge Gainsbourg
London, September 1994

Happy birthday Jane Birkin 🎂
Judy Campbell with her husband, Lt. Commander David Birkin, at the christening of their daughter Jane. Their son Andrew became a screenwriter & director. He was an Assistant Director on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1965-7.
📷 George W. Hales

One more cup of coffee with Jane Birkin ☕️
📷 Jean-Pierre Muller
Paris, 1990

I could go on all morning, but I'd better end this birthday thread for Jane Birkin 🎂
A great shot of the actress on the Isle of Wight by Alex Majoli, 2010

Oops! Forgot this shot!
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin by Georges Kelaïditès, 1969
I wonder if any French couple was photographed more often.