• Directors in Action

    Ramon Novarro, director George Fitzmaurice and Greta Garbo at work on the set of Mata Hari

  • Directors in Action

    Rex Harrison, Randy Stuart and director John M. Stahl during filming of The Foxes of Harrow

  • Take a Break

    Valentina Cortese and director Robert Wise take five while filming The House on Telegraph Hill

  • Directors in Action

    Susan Hayward and director George Marshall go over a scene from Tap Roots

  • Directors in Action

    Ava Gardner, director William A. Seiter and Robert Walker between shots of One Touch of Venus

  • The Good Life

    The Ernst Lubitsches relax in the sun at the just-opened Arrowhead Springs Hotel in San Bernardino. December, 1939

  • Let Them Eat Cake

    Red Sundown costars Martha Hyer and Rory Calhoun vie for a piece of cake at a party celebrating Dean Jagger's thirty years as an actor

  • Keeping in Shape

    James Cagney

  • The Milliner's Art

    Olive Borden

  • Directors in Action

    Director Yves Allégret and Gérard Philipe on the alpine location of La meilleure part

  • Real Directors Smoke Pipes

    Director Frank Borzage and Hedy Lamarr in conference between shots of I Take This Woman

  • A Star's Best Friend

    Michael Wilding and Joan Crawford hold each other's poodles, as Cliquot and Titi get acquainted on the set of Torch Song

  • Masters of Light

    Knowing that one of the secrets to a star's success is making friends with the people who photograph her, Ella Raines gets chummy with the crew of The Suspect: assistants Robert Lazlo and Frank Heisler and cinematographer Paul Ivano

  • The Swimsuit Gallery

    John Howard, Lloyd Nolan, Buster Crabbe and Terry Walker spend a day on the beach

  • Directors in Action

    Director Alfred Werker rehearses a scene from The Last Posse with John Derek and Wanda Hendrix

  • They All Laughed

    Shirley MacLaine enjoys herself in the company of director Charles Walters and Carmen Phillips while making Ask Any Girl

  • Directors in Action

    Writer John Patrick, director Charles Walters, Grace Kelly and music supervisor Saul Chaplin gather on the set of High Society

  • Let Them Eat Cake

    Vincent Price blows the candles at a party in Harrow, England, celebrating his 100th film, Cry of the Banshee. November, 1969

  • Directors in Action

    Irene Dunne and director George Stevens on the set of I Remember Mama

  • Have You Read the Book?

    Merle Oberon reads by the pool

  • Real Directors Smoke Pipes

    Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz gets a point across to the lovely star of Guys and Dolls, Jean Simmons

  • Directors in Action

    On the set of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Richard Burton gyrates with the camera held by cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Director Mike Nichols and Elizabeth Taylor observe

  • Directors in Action

    Anthony Mann directs The Heroes of Telemark

  • Directors in Action

    Writer Paddy Chayefsky and director Delbert Mann discuss the script of Marty

  • Directors in Action

    A scene between Shirley Booth and Eileen Heckart is being filmed for Hot Spell. On either side of the camera, cinematographer Loyal Griggs and director Daniel Mann

  • Directors in Action

    Director Robert Wise rehearses one of the key scenes of Born to Kill with the explosive couple formed by Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor

  • Masters of Light

    Cinematographer Desmond Dickinson (in front of the bulky Technicolor camera) studies a shot of Michael Redgrave for a scene in The Importance of Being Earnest that also features Michael Denison. Overseeing it all is director Anthony Asquith (second from right)

  • Masters of Light

    Cinematographer Harold Wenstrom and camera operator Reggie Lanning capture a shot of Chester Morris for The Big House

  • Take a Break

    Clark Gable and John Lodge in the Paramount lunch room

  • Traveling in Style

    With her husband, Gene Markey, and daughters, Diana and Melinda, on hand at Union Air Terminal to bid her bon voyage, Joan Bennett boards a plane for New York, where she will take passage on the maiden eastbound voyage of Britain's new liner, Queen Mary. June, 1936

  • Directors in Action

    On the set of Private Worlds: Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Joan Bennett, director Gregory La Cava (in chair) and cinematographer Leon Shamroy (extreme right)

  • Directors in Action

    Standing in the ladder, William A. Wellman gives John Wayne direction for a scene about to be shot for The High and the Mighty

  • Directors in Action

    John Wayne, Gail Russell and director James Edward Grant discuss the next scene of Angel and the Badman

  • Take a Break

    Lee Bowman and Richard Carlson share a table at the commissary

  • Celluloid Tales

    Tony Martin holds some rushes of You Can't Have Everything. Also interested in viewing the previous day's footage are chorus girls Lillian Porter, Philippa Hilber and Clarette Ellis, and assistant dance director Harry Joyce

  • Directors in Action

    Director Douglas Sirk, Dorothy Malone and Rock Hudson rehearse a scene from The Tarnished Angels

  • My Pride and Joy

    Christina and Joan Crawford make the most of a sunny day in Brentwood

  • My Pride and Joy

    Nathalie, Anthony and Alain Delon

  • Directors in Action

    Director Jerry Lewis checks a setup on the set of One More Time

  • Directors in Action

    Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper and Ernst Lubitsch know how to sell Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

  • Home & Hearth

    Joan Crawford, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and their abode

  • Masters of Light

    Cinematographer Ernest Palmer takes a light reading on Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda for a scene in Week-End in Havana. Sitting next to the camera is director Walter Lang

  • Directors in Action

    Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck show how good they are to the director of You Belong to Me, Wesley Ruggles

  • Directors in Action

    Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, director Sidney Lumet and cinematographer Boris Kaufman on the set of The Fugitive Kind

  • Keeping in Shape

    Donald Loomis, physical director of the stars at M-G-M, shows Jean Fenwick a few simple exercises for keeping fit

  • They All Laughed

    Laughing time for Michael Caine and director Peter Collinson during filming of The Italian Job

  • Home & Hearth

    Gloria Stuart spends her leisure time gardening in the patio of her Beverly Hills home

  • Take a Break

    Edmund Lowe snatches a minute from the set of The Squeaker at Denham Studios in London to ring up a friend in Hollywood

  • I'd like to thank...

    An elated Ernest Borgnine holds the best film and actor New York Film Critics awards won by Marty

  • Directors in Action

    Director Jean Negulesco, Jean Peters and Walter Brennan on the Lure of the Wilderness location

  • Directors in Action

    George Sidney and other actors appearing in The Heart of New York with director Mervyn LeRoy

  • Yes, It's My Automobile

    Rossano Brazzi chats with a friendly studio guard

  • Directors in Action

    George Peppard and director Jack Smight rehearse a scene from The Third Day

  • The Milliner's Art

    Lili Damita

  • Visitor on the Set

    Baron Maurice de Rothschild (second from left) pays a visit to the set of The Merry Widow and is welcomed by Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald and director Ernst Lubitsch. May, 1934

  • A Musical Moment

    Celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Modern Screen magazine, Jimmy Durante entertains Gloria DeHaven, John Payne, Robert Walker, Esther Williams and Van Johnson

  • Directors in Action

    Barbra Streisand and director Herbert Ross discuss an upcoming shot in Funny Girl

  • Directors in Action

    Director William Friedkin and author-producer William Peter Blatty have a conversation while filming The Exorcist

  • Directors in Action

    Director Charles Marquis Warren and Richard Egan during filming of Tension at Table Rock

  • Directors in Action

    Director William Wyler and Hugh Griffith see eye to eye on the set of How to Steal a Million

  • The Good Life

    Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner promote Ship of Fools at a press conference

  • The Good Life

    Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin and June Collyer attend a charity polo game. August, 1934

  • Home & Hearth

    Fredric March and Florence Eldridge go over the text of Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of Our Teeth in their New York apartment. December, 1942

  • Directors in Action

    Hal Holbrook and Jane Fonda discuss a scene in Julia with director Fred Zinnemann

  • A World of Fashion

    Esther Ralston

  • Directors in Action

    Hazel Brooks in conference with the director of Sleep, My Love, Douglas Sirk

  • The Swimsuit Gallery

    Norma Shearer and Johnny Mack Brown-- A Lady of Chance

  • A Star's Best Friend

    Huckleberry with his owners, James and Lucile Gleason

  • Home & Hearth

    Robert Stack with his vast collection of cups, medals and statuettes won in shooting, swimming and polo competitions

  • Home & Hearth

    Marian Nixon (right) and her sister, Linda, are about to move into a new home in Hollywood, and are shown here working on a chenille rug for the new place. May, 1926

  • Traveling in Style

    William Wyler, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Leo G Carroll sail to Europe aboard the SS Queen Elizabeth

  • The Good Life

    Fred Bailes, Mary Pickford, Francis Lederer and Mary Loos watch a polo game

  • Visitor on the Set

    John Wayne, director John Ford, Jack Pennick and Jeffrey Hunter pose with visitor Dolores Del Rio on the set of The Searchers

  • They All Laughed

    Director Victor Fleming and Norma Shearer have fun on the Empty Hands location

  • Happy New Year!

    Lizabeth Scott resolves to keep her cool in the coming year

  • My Pride and Joy

    Harry James and Betty Grable with daughters Victoria and Jessica

  • Directors in Action

    Director Henry Levin and Stefanie Powers during filming of If a Man Answers

  • Home & Hearth

    Golf enthusiast Oliver Hardy with his trophies

  • Directors in Action

    Gregory La Cava and Ann Harding discuss Gallant Lady

  • A Star's Best Friend

    Jane Russell and friend

  • The Good Life

    Country bumpkins Kay Francis, Richard Boleslawski, Phillips Holmes and Mrs. Boleslawski at the Cafe Vendome

  • The Good Life

    Rock Hudson, Terry Moore, Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe at the home of director Jean Negulesco celebrating the premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire

  • The Good Life

    Carmen Miranda and Michèle Morgan are taught a new dance called The Chase in a Hollywood night club. The teachers are Nikki Manners and Jim Martine. September, 1946

  • Directors in Action

    William Demarest, Sig Ruman, Joan Davis, Thomas Beck and Sally Blane are the actors in the scene being filmed for The Great Hospital Mystery. Director James Tinling is seated at the foot of the bed and cinematographer Harry Jackson is the hatted gentleman at uppermost right

  • Keeping in Shape

    Florence Rice

  • When Directors Meet

    During the filming of It'$ Only Money, Jerry Lewis engages in conversation with his frequent directors Norman Taurog and Frank Tashlin

  • A Star's Best Friend

    Boris Karloff spends quality time with his Bedlington Terriers

  • Directors in Action

    Brigitte Bardot, Giorgia Moll, Jack Palance, director Jean-Luc Godard and Michel Piccoli rehearse a scene from Le mépris

  • Directors in Action

    Director Fred Niblo and members of the cast of Ben-Hur

  • Stars in Fur

    Dorothy Wilson

  • Masters of Light

    Preparing to shoot a scene from Whiplash: cinematographer J. Peverell Marley, Alexis Smith and director Lewis Seiler

  • Directors in Action

    Frequent collaborators Oliver Reed and Ken Russell during the filming of Tommy

  • Directors in Action

    Douglas Trumbull directs Natalie Wood in Brainstorm

  • Directors in Action

    Natalie Wood, James Garner and director Joseph Pevney on the set of Cash McCall

  • Directors in Action

    Director Douglas Trumbull (right) discusses a key shot of Brainstorm with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood

  • Home & Hearth

    Diana Dors shows her hairdresser, Raymond, how cleverly decorated her home pool is. August, 1956

  • I'd like to thank...

    Fredric March congratulates Shirley Booth on winning the Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba. March, 1953

  • The Good Life

    Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (right) dances with Dorothy Lamour at the gold plate breakfast closing the birthday ball in honor of his father in Washington.  The other dancers are Mrs. John Hay Whitney and Gene Autry. January, 1940

Gaumont's Interesting Approach

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Wilder's Acid Tongue

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October Goodies

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