Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo’s nightmare sequence (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo’s nightmare sequence (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Bernard Herrmann - The Nightmare (Vertigo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face (1957, dir. Stanley Donen) (via)

Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face (1957, dir. Stanley Donen) (via)

James Dean during the filming of Rebel Without a Cause, inside the planetarium (1955) Photographer: Dennis Stock 
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James Dean during the filming of Rebel Without a Cause, inside the planetarium (1955) Photographer: Dennis Stock 

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Marilyn Monroe in contact sheets for Some Like it Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder) (Magnum)

Marilyn Monroe in contact sheets for Some Like it Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder) (Magnum)

Marilyn Monroe - I Wanna Be Loved By You (Some Like it Hot: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Montgomery Clift on the set of Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) (via)
Photographer: Burt Glinn 

Montgomery Clift on the set of Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) (via)

Photographer: Burt Glinn 

Seven Samurai (1954, dir. Akira Kurosawa) (via)

Seven Samurai (1954, dir. Akira Kurosawa) (via)

Toni Harper - Lady Lonely

Ingrid Bergman on the train from Rome to the Cannes Film Festival (1956) (via)
Photographer: David Seymour 

Ingrid Bergman on the train from Rome to the Cannes Film Festival (1956) (via)

Photographer: David Seymour 

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

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

Henry ManciniPeter Gunn Theme

Performed by the Quincy Jones Orchestra

Johnny Mandel - Main Theme (I Want to Live: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Alfred Hitchcock & the Jeff Alexander Orchestra - Alfred Hitchcock Theme (from Hitchcock’s 1958 album, Music to be Murdered By)

Helen Merrill End of a Love Affair