JOYCE AND HOPPER INDULGING IN SOME HARDCORE FLIRTING.

Fredric March in Strangers in Love (1932)

She kissed so thirstily, said Kenneth Tynan, “cupping her man’s head in both hands and seeming very early to drink from it.” There were no retakes on the Garbo-Gilbert love scenes. “You can actually see these two terribly attractive people falling in love with each other on the screen,” said Gilbert’s daughter, and director Brown confirmed it:

It was the damnedest thing you ever saw. It was the sort of thing Elinor Glyn used to write about. When they got into that first love scene… Nobody else was even there. Those two were alone in a world of their own. It seemed like an intrusion to yell “cut!“ I used to just motion the crew over to another part of the set and let them finish what they were doing. It was embarrassing.

Greta Garbo c. 1928

Thank you. I love you. 

Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Summertime 1955

Katharine Hepburn “Summertime” (1955) | Dir. David Lean🦢

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

Joan Fontaine in Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1948

Joan Fontaine with sister Olivia De Havilland, looking out of an open window at her home. Photographed by Bob Landry in April 1942 for LIFE Magazine

“Leon, I want to tell you something which I thought I would never say… which I thought nobody ever should say… because I didn’t think it exists. And… Leon, I can’t say it.”

Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

When in Italy, you should meet Italians! SUMMERTIME (1955), dir. David Lean