“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.”
Betty Joan Perske (Lauren Bacall) – September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014
Images
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper in “For whom the Bells Tolls”
Director Sam Wood (1943)
“Psycho”
Alfred Hitchcock & Anthony Perkins on the set of “Psycho”
Director Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
Marlon & Jocelyn
Saul Bass
Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and Academy Award winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences title and film posters.
His designs, particularly his early work in the 1950s and 1960s, revolutionized film posters, movie title sequences, and the way movies were marketed. His designs were iconic, clean, and simple. Bass used typography and concept to convey moods rather than the previously tried-and-true method of film stills and paintings of film stills. He brought minimalism to the movie-going masses.
If you’ve seen a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, or Stanley Kubrick, then you’re probably familiar with the work of Saul Bass. He even worked on a handful of Scorsese films, including Goodfellas (1990) and Cape Fear (1991).
William Holden
William Holden during filming of “The Counterfeit Traitor“ (Dir. George Seaton), Copenhagen, Denmark – 1962
Photo by Gjon Mili/LIFE
Kurosawa & Ray
“Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.”
(Akira Kurosawa)
Photo: Akira Kurosawa and Satyajit Ray at the Venice Film Festival (1982)
Antoine, René and Monika
In “Les quatre cents coups” (The 400 Blows) François Truffaut paid homage to the film “Sommaren med Monika” (Summer with Monika) directed by Ingmar Bergmann
“Guys and Dolls”
Frank Sinatra on the set of “Guys and Dolls”
Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1955)
Photo by Maurice Terrell for Look magazine
“Sullivan’s Travels”
Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in “Sullivan’s Travels”
Director Preston Sturges (1941)
“To Catch a Thief”
Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in a publicity shot for “To Catch a Thief”
Director Alfred Hitchcock (1955)
“Cigarette me, Big Boy!”
Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles and Norman Foster in “Young Man of Manhattan”
Director Monta Bell (1930)
Waiting for midnight
Marlene Dietrich at the recording studios of Columbia Records, who were releasing most of her songs she had performed for the troops during World War II, including “Lili Marlene”.
She was 51 years old and starting a come-back in show business. It was a wet and cold November night and work could only begin at midnight, at the advise of Marlene’s astrologer.
Photo by Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos (Nov. 1952)
“The Killers”
Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in “The Killers”
Director Robert Siodmak (1946)
Dr Pepper
Dennis Hopper in front of a Dr Pepper sign
Photo by Robert Walker Jr. (1965)
Jeff Bridges
Photo by Mark Seliger (2010)
Charlie Chaplin and Helen Keller
Helen Keller and Charlie Chaplin met for the first time on the set of “Sunnyside” (1919)
Credit: Roy Export Company / Cineteca di Bologna
“The Naked Kiss”
War of the Worlds
The “War of the Worlds” was na episode of the american radio drama antology series “The Mercury Theatre on the Air”. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the CBS radio network.
Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was na adaptation of the H.G.Wells’s novel published in 1898
Steve & Mike
Steve McQueen with his dog, a Malamute named Mike
Photo by Jonh Dominis (1963)
Reels & Frames 
You must be logged in to post a comment.