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Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg aboard a ship traveling to Europe, circa 1930.

“The very best screenplay I was ever sent was `Double Indemnity.’ It’s brilliant, but what’s amazing is that not one word was changed while we were shooting. Billy had it all there, and I mean all - everything you see on the screen was in the script. The moves, the business, the atmosphere, all written. When I mention `atmosphere’ in `Double Indemnity’ - that gloomy, horrible house the Dietrichsons lived in, the slit of sunlight slicing through those heavy drapes - you could smell that death was in the air, you understood why she wanted to get out of there, away, no matter how. And for an actress, let me say that the way those sets were lit, the house, Walter’s apartment, those dark shadows, those slices of harsh light at strange angles -all that helped my performance.” — Barbara Stanwyck

Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the head of a French punk, 1961

They should invent a brain that lets you sleep

Bette Davis celebrates her 33rd birthday with a 100 pound cake in Littleton, New Hampshire, April 5, 1941

A Summer Place, Delmer Daves, 1959.

Orson Welles resting on a sculpture of Shakespeare.

Photographer: Cecil Beaton

Vanity Fair

A FREE SOUL (1931) Dir. Clarence Brown

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What’s my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she’s terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares? - Montgomery Clift