As with previous editions, this 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 are candid, some are obviously posed, and some are portraits. I think all of them are interesting. I’ve indicated  photographer credit when I know who took the shot.

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Val Kilmer

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SECOND-HAND SMOKE DEPARTMENT

Marlene Dietrich, photographed by Arnold Newman.

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Monica Vitti

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Jeanne Moreau, photo by Georges Dambier.

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Director John Waters

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Jean-Luc Godard, on the exhale.

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Carol Kane and Anna Magnani

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James Caan, taking a smoke break from being repeatedly shot full of holes at the toll booth in The Godfather (1972).

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John Ford and Jean Renoir

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Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola, 1978

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Luis Buñuel and Billy Wilder

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Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock on the set of North by Northwest (1959). Unusual to see them both out of uniform, so to speak, especially Hitchcock, who’s always wearing a suit in photographs.

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Hitchcock on the sets of Rope (1948) and The Birds (1963).

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Peter Graves and his brother, James Arness, in uniform during World War II. Note the cast on Arness’ right foot.

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Robert Redford and Paul Newman while making Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Newman’s daughter Nell is in the middle.

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Clint Eastwood on the set of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), apparently drinking a Coke.

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Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner literally on the beach while making On the Beach (1959).

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Christiane Harlan, Stanley Kubrick, and Kirk Douglas while making Paths of Glory (1957). Kubrick and Christiane were later married.

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Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, and Tony Curtis while making Spartacus (1960).

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Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sophia Loren taking a pizza break while shooting Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women (1960). Pizza!

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Serious Method actor Dustin Hoffman shows his respect for his Marathon Man (1976) co-star, Sir Laurence Olivier.

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Kim Novak and James Stewart on the set of Vertigo (1958).

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Hitchcock and Novak in the bedroom, Vertigo.

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Director Richard Lester discussing a shot with Buster Keaton while making A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

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Buster Keaton during the making of Our Hospitality (1923).

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From left, Luke Wilson (I think), director Wes Anderson, and Owen Wilson during the making of Anderson’s first feature, Bottle Rocket (1996).

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Sean Connery signs a coconut for a little girl  on the set of Dr. No (1962).

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Jacqueline Bisset on the set of Day for Night (1973), with director François Truffaut in the background.

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Hanna Schygulla

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Elsa Lancaster checking her look for Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

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Liza Minnelli, tweaking her makeup for Otto Preminger’s Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970).

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Marlon Brando, director Elia Kazan, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter while making A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

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Isabella Rossellini, David Lynch, and Federico Fellini.

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Isabella Rossellin on the set of Blue Velvet (1986).

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Director Bernardo Bertolucci with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider during Last Tango in Paris (1972).

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PORTRAITS

Director Luchino Visconti, photo by Ugo Mulas

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Anthony Quinn, photographed by Terry O’Neill, 1971

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Isabelle Huppert, photographed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.

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Isabelle Adjani, photographed by Just Jaeckin, 1980.

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Ingrid Bergman, photographed by Yul Brynner.

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Marcello Mastroianni, photographed by Pierluigi Praturion.

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Buster Keaton photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1931. Keaton by Beaton.

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Claudia Cardinale, photographed by Gianni Ferrari in Spain, 1968.

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Billy Wilder, photographed by Richard Avedon.

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Two takes on French director Jacques Rivette. The second photo was taken by Martine Franck.

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On set with Taxi Driver (1976)

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Screenwriter Paul Schrader at left.

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Peter Boyle at right.

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Jodie Foster at left.

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Photo by Fred W. McDarrah

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Foster and De Niro on the street, woman at left is unidentified.

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DP John Alcott on Barry Lyndon (1975), maybe waiting for Kubrick.

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Stanley Kubrick on camera while directing Frank Silvera and Irene Kane for his second feature, Killer’s Kiss (1955).

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Fritz Lang directs. Check his outfit, even a monocle.

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Director Yasujiro Ozu at left.

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William Friedkin (dark glasses) directing The French Connection (1971).

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Jacqueline Gadson suits up for The Mysterious Island (1929).

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That’s probably enough for now. I’ll close out with 12-year-old Natalie Portman in her first feature film, Léon:The Professional (1994). See you next time. — Ted Hicks

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