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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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Charlie Chaplin on an American tour with the Fred Karno Troupe 1912 (possibly in San Francisco) via chaplinfortheages

James Stewart in Berlin, 1962 via lars134 & wehadfacesthen

Wonderful photo of Montgomery Clift, 1948. via wehadfacesthen

Here is Dean Martin looking like a 1970’s man. Which, you know, he kinda was. Via batteredshoes

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Look at them now, hear them later: “Benedict Cumberbatch and the cast of Neverwhere - first photo and air date revealed”

An exclusive look at the first official cast shot for the Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy drama also starring James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Sophie Okonedo and David Harewood…

The six-part series begins with an hour-long episode at 6pm on Saturday 16 March on Radio 4 and continues with five 30-minute instalments stripped across the week on Radio 4 Extra from Monday 18 March.

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

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Marlon Brando in rehearsals for Guys and Dolls, 1955. Via terrysmalloy

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The great Christopher Lee as Duc de Richleau in The Devil Rides Out (1968), one of Lee’s favorite films. He has performed in more film roles than anyone in history: 275 since 1946. Including such classic film series as the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, not to mention Police Academy. Oops. Did I mention it? He also played Dracula about a dozen times. He is the best. Via beautyandterrordance & greggorysshocktheater

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Today a pair of British bowlers, as it were. First, highlighting the great Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie“ Chaplin. Via headproduct

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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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Kim Novak, James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Vertigo, 1958. via wehadfacesthen