This is the sixth edition of “On Set, Off Camera.”  They consist mainly of shots of actors and directors caught in off-camera moments during the making of a movie, sometimes off-set, at home and elsewhere. Some of these are candid and some are posed, but I think they’re all interesting, and in some cases unusual and revealing.

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Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson in Cannes, 1969, when Easy Rider was screened in competition. Unfortunately, the women with them are unidentified.

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 Dean & Brando

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Jack Nicholson, John Huston, and Roman Polanski while shooting Chinatown (1974).

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Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, younger and older.

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The Hands of Hitchcock

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Hitchcock & Cary Grant, very artsy shot.

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John Boorman, Billy Wilder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Satyajit Ray at Cannes in 1982. All that creative power at one tiny table.

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Bernardo Bertolucci and Antonioni.

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David Lynch with Jack Nance while shooting Eraserhead (1977). Below that, John Waters and Lynch in front of Bob’s Big Boy in 1979.

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John Waters. 1964

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Akira Kurosawa with fellow Ishirō Honda, director of the original Gojira, aka Godzilla (1954).

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Kurosawa sweeps the set, and below that, with Satyajit Ray, and then looking pleased as punch with George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg at the Academy Awards.

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Toshiro Mifune takes a cigarette break during Yojimbo (1961).

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Jean-Pierre Léaud with François Truffaut in 1959. Below that, bored at lunch with Jean Cocteau and Truffaut. Well, he was just a kid. Beneath that, Cocteau in 1921.

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Léaud regarding Jean-Luc Godard.

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Two Spocks (Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy) with director J. J. Abrams while making Star Trek (2009).

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Scorsese directs.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Raging Bull (1980)

Cape Fear (remake, 1991)

The Departed (2006)

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Scorsese with Isabella Rossellini.

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Wendell Cory and James Stewart play chess on the set of Rear Window (1954) while Grace Kelly watches. Below that, Stanley Kubrick and George C. Scott do the same during a break from shooting Dr. Strangelove (1964).

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Gregory Peck on the beach. Below that, eating ice cream bars with Ingrid Bergman.

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Mel Gibson stoking up with Sigourney Weaver, probably when they were in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).

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Truffaut helps Luis Buñuel light up.

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Buñuel and Catherine Deneuve.

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Marilyn Monroe and Eli Wallach on the set of The Misfits (1961). I really like this shot. There’s a lot going on.

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Natalie Wood’s dressing room. She’s a movie fan!

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Lauren Bacall’s hair style tests for To Have and Have Not  (1944), her first feature film.

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Werner Herzog wrangling rats for his remake of Nosferatu (1979).

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The Gill Man steals a kiss during a break from filming The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).

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Cary Grant on location for Father Goose (1964).

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John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Beautiful.

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I think I’ll wrap it up with this wonderful shot of Audrey Hepburn. Really amazing.

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I’ve stockpiled many more of these photos than I can reasonably put in any one post. I keep finding them and feel compelled to save them. Stay tuned for more of these.

Okay, that’s all for now. — Ted Hicks

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