Michael Caine in The Ipcress File (1965, dir. Sidney J. Furie) (via)

From the lost film To the Stars (1906, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)

Peter O’Toole, William Wyler, and Audrey Hepburn on the set of How to Steal a Million (1966, dir. William Wyler) Photographer: Terry O’Neill

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David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976, dir. Nicolas Roeg) (via)

Roeg: “We really didn’t need to talk about the role at all; he was the part the moment he stepped on to the set. During the first week of shooting, there were some studio folks lurking about—more to meet David Bowie than anything else, I’d imagine—and they expressed a few reservations. ‘He seems a little…odd, don’t you think?’ And I told them, ‘The character is an alien; how is he supposed to act? Like he’s Gary Cooper?’

It wasn’t like David was unfriendly—we had dinner together numerous times, and he ran a lending library out of his trailer, which was full of books on every subject imaginable—but he kept himself separate to the point that others started to think of him as this mysterious ‘other,’ you know? So much of that performance is simply Bowie being himself—and that’s what’s so brilliant about it.” (via)

Pascal Lamorisse in The Red Balloon (1956, dir. Albert Lamorisse) (via)

Ann Miller in a Busby Berkeley-choreographed dance sequence from Small Town Girl (1953, dir. László Kardos) (via)

Akira Kurosawa with Martin Scorsese, who is getting made up for his turn as Vincent Van Gogh in Kurosawa’s Dreams (via)

Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa) (via)

Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin (photo by Bert Stern for LIFE Magazine, Dec. 23rd, 1963)