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Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh visit Alfred Hitchcock in his studio office before the filming of Psycho in 1959. Photographed by Sid Avery.

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Love, famously, a few years back, via mandy-rascal

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“Secrets of a Model” via hollyhocksandtulips

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Happy Birthday to one of my all time favorite beauties: Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) via sydneyflapper & miss-flapper

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farleysgranger:

William Holden | April 17, 1918 — November 12, 1981

He faced life courageously, and he wasn’t fearful of it. — Blake Edwards

He had gotten steadily better, greater, and was more widely accepted. He became more valuable to us every time we saw him, and it was—you know, the cut was in the wrong place. — Robert Mitchum

“By the time Holden died in 1981, personal indifference to acting had yielded to a particular fascination with African wildlife conservation. Unfortunately, what had been youthful carousing had also given way to binge drinking. The fatal fall that ended his life was due to a drunken misstep during a solo bout with the bottle in his bedroom. ‘To be killed by a vodka bottle and a night table,’ Wilder reasoned at the time. ‘What a lousy fade-out to a great guy.’

“Reeking as it does of the cruel ironies of Hollywood Babylon-style excess, as well as the private agony of someone who perhaps never found personal fulfillment in plying his craft to equal the considerable skill with which he practiced it, Holden’s lonesome, wasteful death was an awful tragedy. But decades later, it seems perversely fitting that a man who specialized in uneasy on-screen personae—vanquished by their own weaknesses and pitiless circumstance—was himself brought low by a single wrong move during one of many lost weekends.

“‘They came too late and stayed too long,’ observed the tagline introducing Peckinpah’s Wild Bunch. Having arrived at the dawn of a new fatalism in American movies, and inadvertently bowed out as the ’70s and the age of the anti-hero ended, Holden’s tragic timing was perfect both on-screen and off.” — Bill Bennett

old Bill Holden is my favorite Bill Holden

Anniversary of the death of William Holden is Monday.

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Fantastic image of James Dean during the filming of Rebel Without a Cause (1955, dir. Nicholas Ray) Photographer: Dennis Stock (via) via lecollecteur

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wowowowow. sensational. “Amazing noir-themed 2007 photoshoot by national treasure Annie Liebovitz for Vanity Fair” with an incredible cast of familiar faces: from Ben Affleck to Jack Nicholson to Forrest Whitaker—and so many in between. Angelica Huston, Sharon Stone, Aaron Eckhart, Alec Baldwin, Tobey Maguire, Bruce Willis, Penelope Cruz, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench… who else do you see?  via fuckyeah-nerdery, humansacrifice, havingbeenbreathedout etc etc etc….

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More creepy heads. Celebrity creepies this time. I can see Marx Brothers, Chaplin, Gable(?), and my high school chemistry teacher. Photo by Weegee, tabloid photographer from the first half of the 20th century. There’s a big Weegee exhibit in LA until the end of February. via rrrick:

Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles is the first museum exhibition devoted to the work that the tabloid photographer known as Weegee produced in Southern California. In addition to roughly 200 photographs, many of which have never before been shown or reproduced, the exhibition encompasses Weegee’s related work as an author, filmmaker, photo-essayist, and genius self-promoter. MOCA editor Erica Wrightson sat down with MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Guest Curator Richard Meyer to discuss the evolution of this exhibition and it’s relevance to Los Angeles.

great pics, and this quote from Marlon Brando about Marilyn Monroe is amazing…

“Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty … how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere.”
- Marlon Brando

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Touch Of Evil
The New York Times Magazine has produced yet another , hopefully annual, set of video portraits of some of this year’s best actors (this time directed by Alex Prager). Last year it was a gallery of “classic film types” and this year it’s “cinematic villains,” featuring Brad Pitt as “The Madman,” Rooney Mara as “The Sociopath,” Gary Oldman as “The Menacing Dummy,” Mia Wasikowska (and this portrait is my favorite) as “The Home Wrecker,” Ryan Gosling as “The Invisible Man,” George Clooney as “The Tyrant,” Viola Davis as “The Vengeful Caretaker,” Kirsten Dunst as “The Siren,” Michael Shannon as “The Tycoon,” Jessica Chastain as “The Fire Starter,” Jean Dujardin as “The Hothead,” Adepero Oduye as “The Outlaw,” and Glenn Close as “The Vamp.”

Love it.

The stars of today as classic film villains. Awesome.

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Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood. Yes, that was a crazy weekend. But they went back to their wives bright and early Monday morning. via hollyhocksandtulips

“The Social Pirates”. hmm. Photo of movie studio workers at a company picnic c.1923 via maudelynn

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