Audrey Hepburn on set in New York

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Dennis Stock during the production of Sabrina in Long Island, New York, USA in 1954.

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Gary Cooper on the cover of “Hollywood” Magazine

Gary Cooper on the cover of “Hollywood” magazine, USA, January 1941.
Check out Gus van Sant and Harmony Korine on set here

Carmel Myers on the cover of Picture Play Magazine

Carmel Myers on the cover of “Picture Play Magazine”, USA, April 1924. Artwork by Henry Clive.
Check out the Czech poster of Hiroshima, Mon Amour right here

Clark Gable on the cover of “Movie Mirror”

Clark Gable on the cover of “Movie Mirror” magazine, USA, November 1939.
Check out the Japanese poster of Samuel Fuller’s The Naked Kiss right here

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn on the cover of “Movie Story” magazine

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn on the cover of “Movie Story” magazine, USA, June 1945.
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Check out Audrey Hepburn and Edith Head on set of Roman Holiday right here

Anita Ekberg buys a hat in the USA !

Lisa Larsen, [Miss Sweden Anita Ekberg sporting a veiled hat by Mr. John during her hat-buying spree while visiting the United States for possible work as model], 1951.

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Check out these Anita Ekberg by Georg Oddner here

Star Wars Opening Weekend in San Francisco (1977)

Star Wars (1977, by George Lucas) opened on Wednesday, March 28th 1977 in San Francisco.

” The Coronet was the only theater for 50 miles playing the space opera, but it seated more than 1,300 … most of whom appear to be in this line ” – Peter Hartlaub, The Chronicle.

Here are some shots from that day, taked by Gary Fong.
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Thank you Rawad Nassif for this kind contribution.

 

 

Philippe Petit aka the man who walked between the twin towers

Frenchman Philippe Petit of Nemours, France, on August 7th 1974, attempted the impossible : a high wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air, that lasted 45 minutes and ended with him getting arrested. Philippe’s routine and life became the subject of a very poetic documentary made in 2008 named Man on Wire (directed by James Marsh), but maybe not as poetic as these photos, shot by his friend who hid with him overnight in the tower, in order to install the wire.

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Special thanks to Miss Francesca Baldi.

Joan Crawford does her toilette: Intimate shots by Eve Arnold

American photo-journalist Eve Arnold (1912 – 2012), an honorary member of the Royal Photographic Society took this photo of her close friend, actress Joan Crawford in 1959, in Los Angeles while she was doing her toilette. You will find here three samples and more will be published on our Facebook page which you can like here

Tribute to authors & screenwriters: Billy Wilder

No list of screenwriters could ever be complete without the one and only Billy Wilder.
Wilder made use of his scripts to transgress Hollywood censorship by depicting taboo topics to the American mainstream, such as cross-dressing in Some Like It Hot and addiction in The Lost Weekend. To his credit are some of the US most classical films and spellbinding noirs, such as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment(1960).
Hotel del Coronado, where Some Like it Hot was filmed in 1958 and thus became an iconic place, commemorated Billy Wilder with the stamp you see below.

© The American Postal service’s Billy Wilder stamp, featuring the director/screenwriter, Marilyn Monroe & the hotel Coronado in the back.