"What are you giving me with the flying fish"

James Mason, publicity shot for The Seventh Veil (1945).

René Vincent illustration for the cover of La Vie Parisienne, 1922.

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Jean Arthur and Gary Cooper, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936).

Paulette Goddard for Modern Times (1936).

Monochrome photograph of a young standing white woman in bold stance, wearing a cap, shirt and breeches, smoking, in a photography studio

Norwegian photographer, women's suffragist Marie Høeg (1866-1949) made late 19thc and early 20thc photography including self portraits which challenged how women were expected to be portrayed #WomensArt

black and white image of mikhail barishnikov in high waisted black pants, a sweater around his neck and no shirt, in a rehearsal space; he's mid way through a fall to his right

nothing hotter in this world

Carole Lombard in a publicity shot for High Voltage (1929).

Carole Lombard for High Voltage (1929).

Oh yes, making Lauren Bacall's character jealous!

Sulky blonde dame, Dolores Moran in The Man I Love (1947). #botd

1/26/67: Sidney Lumet's The Deadly Affair
via the Le Carre novel [M: Quincy Jones]
w/Mr. James Mason ++
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#botd Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gloria Swanson at a Studio 54 benefit for the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, 1978.

As a storm rages outside, I was lucky to be watching the 4k restoration of L'Atalante (1934) at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social where real life disappeared for a couple of enchanted hours. I love cinema in the afternoon.

Director Mitchell Leisen having his palm read by Barbara Stanwyck, during the filming of Remember The Night (1940).

Head of the model with her eyes closed. The photographer has treated the negative in such a way that the rest of the photo seems unfinished.

Erwin Blumenfeld
Manina, Paris, 1936

"Blumenfeld didn’t respect rules. He was very proud of saying that if the instruction on the new film said never to heat it above room temperature, he would boil it. And then you’d get these strange effects on the surface."
- William Ewing

#botd photographer Erwin Blumenfeld.

Self-Portrait in the Photography Studio of the Rue Delambre Paris, 1939.

Photographer Erwin Blumenfeld #botd

Tara Twain, Amsterdam, 1935.

Carole Lombard in a publicity shot for High Voltage (1929).

One of my favourite Carole Lombard photo sessions, the dramatic, high contrast images for her first talkie, High Voltage (1929).

A black cat poses on a workbench, with tools hung on the wall behind it.

Paolo Monti
Paris, 1981

#Caturday

Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano by the seaside sitting in a large window sill with an amazing view in Baby It’s You (1983)

Frame of the Day

Marlene Dietrich photographed wearing a stunning design by Travis Banton for Ernst Lubitsch's ANGEL (1937).

Earl Christy cover art of Marlene Dietrich for Modern Screen magazine in November, 1937.

Painted in 1945, 'Still-life with Pears,' encapsulates the intense scrutiny Carlo de Roover fixed upon his subjects as he sought to capture the structure and essence of an object or figure in painterly form.

Peggy Fears by Fred Hartsook.

Carole Lombard in a publicity shot for High Voltage (1929).

I love this pic. Ann Todd on holiday in Jamaica. Photo by her husband, David Lean, 1950.

Gloria Swanson and Raoul Walsh for Sadie Thompson (1928).

Veronica Lake, Paramount publicity, 1941.