David Niven and Marius Goring by Eric Grey, 1945
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?
In theory this tumblr will be full of nibblets relating to classic cinema (both British and American), but lets see how long that lasts.
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Filming Brief Encounter
from David Lean by Kevin Brownlow
Maurice Elvey directing Ivor Novello in the remake of The Lodger, 1932
George Cukor, Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor behind the scenes of Camille, 1936
Casablanca, 1942 dir by Michael Curtiz.
Director Jack Conway and Ronald Colman discussing the script for A Tale of Two Cities
Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray on the set of Double Indemnity (1944, dir. Billy Wilder)
Wartime food shortages meant that security guards were posted to protect the real cans of food in the grocery store from sticky-fingered cast & crew members. Despite this, the aggrieved store owner reported to the LA Times that some scoundrel had managed to pinch a can of peaches & four bars of laundry soap.
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Signing the title card for Sunnyside
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Shooting State of the Union with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Apparently Frank Capra is 38th from the right. I do not have enough patience to figure out where he is.
Humphrey Bogart and Paul Henreid playing chess on the set of Casablanca.
Claude Rains!
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, photographed by N. R. Farbman, 1947
Ok, last one, but are those more Red Shoes props? Looks like the newspaper dress fabric. Anyone know?
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, photographed by N. R. Farbman, 1947
Um. Is that a Red Shoes theatre set they’re playing with?!?!?!
Laurence Olivier behind the scenes of Hamlet
