Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston)
“She’s American and it’s very clear that she is. She’s very good that way - one has to be very local to be universal.”
-Henri Cartier-Bresson on Marilyn Monroe, quoted in James Goode’s The Making of the Misfits

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

“She’s American and it’s very clear that she is. She’s very good that way - one has to be very local to be universal.”

-Henri Cartier-Bresson on Marilyn Monroe, quoted in James Goode’s The Making of the Misfits

Marilyn Monroe and Louis Calhern on the set of The Asphalt Jungle (1950, dir. John Huston)

Marilyn Monroe and Louis Calhern on the set of The Asphalt Jungle (1950, dir. John Huston)

Marilyn Monroe & Eli Wallach on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston)
Photo by Erich Hartmann.

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

Photo by Erich Hartmann.

Anjelica Huston during the filming of A Walk with Love & Death (1969, dir. John Huston) (via)
Photo by Eve Arnold

Anjelica Huston during the filming of A Walk with Love & Death (1969, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photo by Eve Arnold

Marilyn Monroe and Eli Wallach on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)
Photo by Eve Arnold

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

Photo by Eve Arnold

John Huston on the set of The Unforgiven (1960, dir. John Huston) Photo by Inge Morath (via)
“God Almighty, looking at what’s going on here, or having looked at what’s been going on here for the last generation or so, must surely have turned to the bottle, and he’s obviously away on an extended bat in another constellation…I prefer to think of God as away on a bat. Not dead, just drunk.”
-Huston, quoted in John Huston: Interviews

John Huston on the set of The Unforgiven (1960, dir. John Huston) Photo by Inge Morath (via)

“God Almighty, looking at what’s going on here, or having looked at what’s been going on here for the last generation or so, must surely have turned to the bottle, and he’s obviously away on an extended bat in another constellation…I prefer to think of God as away on a bat. Not dead, just drunk.”

-Huston, quoted in John Huston: Interviews



Arthur Miller shows Marilyn Monroe some dance steps for her next scene on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) Miller was describing the way his father used to “Skip to My Lou” (via)
Photo by Eve Arnold

Arthur Miller shows Marilyn Monroe some dance steps for her next scene on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) Miller was describing the way his father used to “Skip to My Lou” (via)

Photo by Eve Arnold


Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)
Photographer: Eve Arnold

Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photographer: Eve Arnold

Marilyn Monroe & Eli Wallach in The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)
Photo by Erich Hartmann. 

Marilyn Monroe & Eli Wallach in The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photo by Erich Hartmann. 

Marilyn Monroe & Montgomery Clift on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)
Photo by Eve Arnold.

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

Photo by Eve Arnold.