Cary Grant & unknown poodle discuss their next scene (via Photoplay)

Cary Grant & dog occupy themselves as best they can (via pictopia)

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”

-Cary Grant

The first Mr. Ed (aka “Bamboo Harvester”) and unnamed friend, 1964 (via corbis)

On horseback riding:

“I don’t know why the hell everybody thinks this is so great. To me it’s like a dry fuck.”

- Carole Lombard (via corbis)

On playing Catwoman:

“I had never seen any of the segments before. I don’t think I even read the comic. I knew nothing about what they were looking for. But since people have always thought of me as a cat, it seems, and told me that I move ‘catlike’, I was just myself. More.”

-Eartha Kitt (photo by Gordon Parks)

Impressively calm camera crew records Jackie the Lion for MGM studio’s roaring lion production logo (1929) (via)

Buster Keaton & Josephine on the set of The Cameraman (1928, dir. Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton) (via)

Harry Piel and a few uninvited guests in Panik (1928, dir. Harry Piel)

Peter O’Toole communes with his co-star on the set of Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir. David Lean)

“[In Lawrence of Arabia,] there was a famous scene of a charge in which my face was described by Time magazine as with a look of ‘messianic determination’ as we charged.

…The day of the charge, we were given Moroccan plow camels, who had never had a human being on their hump. We were doing a mile down a shaley hill - 50 camels and 400 horses. It was going to be very dangerous indeed. So I went to the caravan which Omar [Sharif] and I were sharing. As you may know, Omar is a gambling man. He was looking very solemn.

He said, ‘I’m working up the odds, Peter….whether or not the camel will fall over, or whether I will fall off the camel. The odds on the camel falling over are 6:4 against, but the odds of me falling off the camel are even money.’ I saw the sense of that so I asked, ‘What do you intend to do?’ He said, ‘I’m going to tie myself onto the camel.’ 

I thought, well, I don’t really fancy being adhered to a camel. So I said, ‘I’m not going to do that, Omar. I’m going to get drunk.’ And Omar said, ‘Oh, I’m going to get drunk as well.’ So we got a bottle of brandy and two bottles of milk and we drank the brandy and the milk. And of course by this time we were supremely confident of doing anything. So he was tied to the camel. Off went the rockets - boom! - and of course the camels, out of sheer terror, bolted.

And this look of ‘messianic determination’ on my face was, in fact, a drunk actor.”

Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photo by Eve Arnold.