This is a follow-up to “On Set, Off Camera,” posted on April 2, 2018, which can be accessed here. It mainly consisted of shots of actors caught in off-camera moments during the making of a movie. I’ve expanded the parameters to include directors as well as actors, sometimes off-set, at home and elsewhere. Some of these are candid and some are staged promotional photos. But I think they’re all interesting.

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Charlton Heston as Moses on location for The Ten Commandments (1956).

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John Huston, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, maybe at lunch.

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Welles directing Too Much Johnson (1938).

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Welles on Citizen Kane set, 1940.

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Welles and Charlie Chaplin. I wonder what two geniuses talk about. Probably everyday stuff.

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Lon Chaney Jr, Tor Johnson, and Bela Lugosi at lunch while shooting The Black Sleep in February, 1956. The film was released in June ’56. Lugosi died that August.

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Suzanne Pleshette and Rod Taylor on the set of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963). Maybe a little bored sitting around, waiting.

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Psycho, 1960. Below this obviously posed shot of Hitchcock reading a copy of Robert Bloch’s novel is a shot on set with Hitchcock directing Janet Leigh and John Gavin in the first scene in the film.

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Steve McQueen visits Janet Leigh and Tony Perkins on the Psycho set.

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Leigh and Perkins, could they be any slimmer?

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Martin Scorsese at left on the set of Taxi Driver (1976), and at right in his apartment with a stuffed bear as a seat cushion, overseen by Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix.

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Scorsese and Robert De Niro while shooting Taxi Driver.

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Natalie Wood, James Dean, and director Nicholas Ray discussing Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

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Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef at the location for the climactic shootout in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

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Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, and Michael Madson take a break while shooting Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992).

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Buster Keaton with Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel.

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Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

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Karl Freund behind the camera on Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

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Karl Freund with Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball on the set of I Love Lucy. Freund was director of photography for the show from 1951 to 1957

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Robert Ryan of the set of what’s probably a Western, though don’t know which one. Such a great actor. The Set-Up, Odds Against Tomorrow, On Dangerous Ground, The Wild Bunch, to name a few.

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Ida Lupino directing.

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Jim Jarmusch and Iggy Pop at Cannes with Gimme Danger (2016), a documentary about Pop. Beneath that is an undated photo of a much younger, very intense Jarmusch.

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Make-up artist Jack Pierce turning Boris Karloff into the Frankenstein “Monster.”

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Sean Connery with his son Jason.

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Burt Lancaster at home, 1954.

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Cat casting call for The Black Cat episode of Roger Corman’s Poe film Tales of Terror (1962).

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Rock Hudson getting a fast-draw lesson from Audie Murphy in 1952.

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While shooting The Lady Eve (1941), Barbara Stanwyck with her favorite hairstylist Hollis Barnes, director Preston Sturges at left, Henry Fonda in background reading war news.

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Peter O’Toole, a long time ago.

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Marilyn Monroe getting camera ready.

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Well-known photo on the set of The Misfits (1961). Clockwise from Arthur Miller in back on ladder: Eli Wallach, director John Huston, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift. Don’t know identity of the man at left standing under the ladder.

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Lon Chaney with his make-up kit. Looks to be at the time of The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

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Cast photo in costume for Casablanca (1942).

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This seemed very weird until I learned that it’s Humphrey Bogart’s daughter Leslie on the swing with him.

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There’s something odd about this photo, or is it just me? Maybe it’s the shorts, maybe it’s the footwear, but this is not the John Wayne look we’re used to.

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Okay, that’s it for this one. See you next time. — Ted Hicks

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