This is the eighth edition of “On Set, Off Camera.” As with previous editions, it consists 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 obviously posed, but I think they’re all interesting.

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Martin Scorsese

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Scorsese & Robert De Niro during the making of Taxi Driver (1976).

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Again, De Niro and Sccorsese.

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Scorsese with his mom and De Niro on Taxi Driver set.

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Scorsese with his parents at Christmas time in their home in Queens, New York, 1948.

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Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and somebody’s baby while shooting Raging Bull (1980).

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Sofia Coppola with arms around her father and Bill Murray.

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Michelangelo Antonioni with Jack Nicholson while making The Passenger (1975).

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Antonioni with Monica Vitti.

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William Wyler with John Ford.

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Akira Kurosawa with John Ford, 1957.

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Dennis Hopper, John Ford, John Huston. Interesting bedfellows.

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Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani while making Sidney Lumet’s The Fugitive Kind (1960).

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Anna Magnani

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Pier Paolo Pasolini and his mother.

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Yasujirö Ozu and his mother.

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Luchino Visconti and his sister, with their mother’s portrait behind them.

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Nick Cassavetes with his mother, Gena Rowlands.

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John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands.

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John Cassavetes

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Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrar outside Paris, 1956.

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William Holden

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Steve McQueen with magazines, with cat, and with Natalie Wood while making Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Very cool.

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Paul Newman, Sidney Lumet, Lindsay Crouse, and unidentified woman during production of The Verdict (1982).

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Paul Newman deplanes.

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Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Jack Nicholson in car mock-up for The Shining (1980)._______________________________________________________

Brad Pitt in sports car rigged for shooting in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Not so simple.

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Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Below that, James Dean looking at a magazine with Jackie Gleason on the cover while Liz naps on the couch, probably during a break while making Giant (1956).

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Jean-Pierre Léaud regards a poster for his film, The 400 Blows, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959.

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John Wayne and Gary Cooper.

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Toshiro Mifune, looking very relaxed.

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The cast of High Noon (1951) in what appears to be a posed shot. From left, Otto Kruger, Thomas Mitchell, Gary Cooper, Fred Zinnemann (maybe), Grace Kelly, and Lon Chaney Jr. I wonder what they were supposed to be watching on the television.

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François Truffaut and Jeanne Moreau, 1964.

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Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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Belmondo and Jean Seberg clown around while shooting Breathless (1960).

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And to close this out, obsessive shutterbug Yul Brynne, in make-up for The King and I, takes a shot.

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That’s probably enough for this installment. I’ve got a lot more photos stockpiled for posts like this. I just keep finding more. See you next time. — Ted Hicks

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