Claire Trevor and Edward Dmytryk on set

Claire Trevor and director Edward Dmytryk on the set of Murder, My Sweet (1944).
Check out this portrait of Faye Dunaway.

Rhonda Fleming photographed by Madison Lacy

Rhonda Fleming photographed by Madison Lacy, 1944.
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On set of Double Indemnity (1944)

Fred McMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Billy Wilder on the set of Double Indemnity, 1944.
Check out Sam Peckinpah and Dustin Hoffmann on set of Straw Dogs here

Visual Showdown: portraits in films

VISUAL SHOWDOWN

Above: Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944). 
Below: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947).
This is a contribution of Mehdi Jahan.

Poster of George Cukor’s Gaslight

Poster art featuring Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman for 1944’s Gaslight (dir. George Cukor) unknown artist.
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Tallulah Bankhead and Hector Dods talk “Lifeboat”

Tallulah Bankhead on the desk of Hector Dods talks over Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, 1944.
Check out Anita Ekberg shot by Georg Oddner right here

June Vincent for Harper’s Bazaar!

“Low-budget” film-noir siren, June Vincent (star of “Black Angel” (1946)) shot by Engstead from Harper’s Bazaar, June 1944.
I am not the author of this image.
Check out Linda Darnell on the cover of “Motion Picture” right here

Gene Kelly double exposure, by Gjon Mili

This is our very first Gene Kelly post !!

Albanian-American photographer Gjon Mili (1904- 1984) is best known for his work in LIFE magazine and for his photos of very famous artists including Gene Kelly in 1944. Around the period of “Cover Girl,” a Columbia movie, is this dance in which double-exposure photography shows Kelly struggling bitterly with his conscience. The Gijon Mili pictures shown below capture the extraordinary grace and inventiveness of this number.

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Caption from LIFE, describing a dance Gene Kelly performed in the 1944 movie, Cover Girl. “Kelly rises, tries to leap away. But his conscience continues to pursue him.”