One more take of Marlene for Paramount’s Golden Earrings (1947).

Claudette Colbert, 1932.

Gloria Grahame by Ernest Bachrach (1947)

Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina on the set of The Stranger by Luchino Visconti (1967)

Silvana Mangano in "Dune" - BOTD

Mischa Auer 👊

Tonight's viewing - "The Unknown Girl" codirected by Jean-Pierre Dardenne who was BOTD

Claire Denis during the filming of "Trouble Everyday" (with Beatrice Dalle) - BOTD

Andie MacDowell in "Short Cuts" (with Jack Lemmon) - BOTD

Actress Merle Oberon — in costume, dressed in an opulent white gown with extravagant ruffled sleeves and skirt, bedecked with dark-coloured ribbons — captured facing the camera while seated on a large sofa, her feet propped up on a small table in front of her as she looks away from the camera, holding a script in her hands, in a full-length black-and-white shot taken during a break from filming on the set of The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

Merle Oberon during a break from filming The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

Anthony Quinn in "Island of Lost Men" (with Anna May Wong) - BOTD

wearing a red top and blue shorts, Silvana Mangano takes a proud stance with her hands on her hips, in the background a portrait of Vittorio Gassmann

BTD - Silvana Mangano - Bitter Rice - 1949 - Italian poster

Claire Denis (with scenes from her film "Chocolat") - BOTD

Silvana Mangano in Pier Paolo Pasolini's OEDIPUS REX (1967)

She was BOTD in 1930

Gene Kelly dans "Un Américain à Paris", de Vincente Minnelli (1951)

Silvana Mangano in "Conversation Piece" - BOTD

A woman opening a box in the film Kiss Me Deadly

You should think twice before opening a mysterious box. #CineMon

Thanks to Claire Denis #BOTD for causing these images to exist.

Margot Fonteyn in her dressing room, c. 1949.

Photo by Brassaï.

Anthony Quinn in "La Strada" - BOTD

'Paris, Texas'

'Mort à Venise'

Souleymane Cissé (with scenes from his film "Yeelen") - BOTD

Silvana Mangano (21 avr. 1930 - 16 déc. 1989) ♥️💖
New York, March 1954.
(Photo by TPLP/Getty Images)

Claire Denis 🎂 and Harry Dean Stanton on the set of Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas (1984)

Silvana Mangano in "Teorema" - BOTD

Alas I only read about this production. I did manage to catch the original production in 1979.

Elaine May stands on a box next to a movie camera set atop a skyscraper

A very Happy Birthday to Elaine May - Directing A New Leaf in 1971

A colorful caricature of Harold Lloyd dancing on a high rise construction beam

BTD - Harold Lloyd - Safety Last!, 1923 - Swedish poster from 1924

Patti LuPone in "Sweeny Todd" (with Manoel Felciano) - BOTD