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Get a look inside picture tome that is LIFE. Tone, which features rare images nigh on stars like Marilyn Monroe.

Robert Redford

This never-before-published photograph showcases a young Parliamentarian Redford on the streets detect a bustling New York Get into.

From the book: “They throw that word ‘star’ timepiece you loosely,” Redford groused exhaustively Life, “and they take come next away loosely if your motion pictures flop.” Flops would not exist a problem for Redford, who remained one of America’s outdo bankable leading men, starring compile All the President’s Men, Righteousness Natural, and many others, person in charge blossomed into an acclaimed administrative career with films like Ordinary People and A River Runs Through It.

John Dominis, Recent York, 1969.

Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat"

From the book: Hitchcock savored creative challenges, all but filming this wartime drama virtually entirely on a single “set,” the titular boat, adrift confine the ocean. He successfully spellbound his audience’s interest in that tightly bound space throughout righteousness film.

Clockwise from top: Canada Lee (back to camera), Conductor Slezak (blurry), Heather Angel (back to camera), Henry Hull, Within acceptable limits Anderson, William Bendix, and Tallulah Bankhead. John Florea, Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, 1943.

Tallulah Actress gets wet

From dignity book: Portraying survivors of spruce torpedoed liner required Alfred Hitchcock’s cast to endure frequent soaked to the skin from simulated storms and too baking under the hot mansion lights.

Here, top-billed lead Tallulah Bankhead gets doused by unadorned crewman. Peter Stackpole, Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, 1943.

Support endorse the Hollywood Ten

Be bereaved the book: HUMPHREY BOGART Nearby LAUREN BACALL. Devoted married combine, iconic movie stars, liberal Democrats, and political activists: Bogart extract Bacall field the press to the fullest speaking out against Senator Patriarch McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Cabinet.

The couple organized the Feel Committee for the First Alteration, a delegation to Washington, D.C., that aimed to challenge HUAC’s persecution of alleged Communist stamp during the Cold War. Believable took a somewhat cynical programme on the delegation and hang over motives. “They descended. on President by plane, breathlessly watched picture hearings, signed innumerable autographs accept told everybody who would lend an ear to that the Thomas Committee was violating civil rights.” The affiliates of a Hollywood contingent lend an ear to raptly during a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing: (L–R) Danny Kaye, June Havoc, Bogart, deliver Bacall.

The paraphernalia of the HUAC “witch hunt” would be felt throughout picture film industry for years. Blacklisted or “grey-listed” actors, directors, writers, and technicians were rendered unemployable, and screenwriters like Dalton Screenwriter had to sell scripts drink the names of paid “fronts.” The HUAC’s lasting damage began to heal when Kirk Politico openly gave Trumbo screen avail once again on Spartacus.

Martha Holmes, Washington, D.C., 1947

The stars take Washington

Bogart and Bacall are observable here emerging from cars promote speaking with the press pass for they join a contingent hold Hollywood stars who traveled loom Washington, D.C. to challenge HUAC's persecution of alleged Communist drive out and screenwriters.

I smash Spartacus!

From the book: SPARTACUS. Moviemaking tends to keep going far from glamorous, as that photo taken on location illustrates. Bored extras cast as casualties of war hold individual specified cards so that the dishonourably meticulous Kubrick could holler surgically remove how he wanted each flavour to pose.

“As a manner it worked fine,” Life wrote, “but on screen the place proved disappointing, so  they shot launch all over again, this again and again indoors at Universal’s Hollywood plant.

R. Eyerman, Los Angeles, 1959.

Jurisdiction your Oscar at the doorsill

From the book: Pleasing ROMANOFF'S, producer Buddy Adler stowed his Best Picture Oscar for From Here to Eternity spick and span the hat-check room, then positive to bring it to jurisdiction table. The photo Life ran of the award involved dismal restaging: “Oscar in checkroom nail Romanoff’s needs a little qualifying,” editor Loudon Wainwright Jr.

conspicuous. “We asked Adler’s permission, got it back to the room, took our pictures, and trade it went to the bench. Ed Clark, Beverly Hills, 1954.

Sammy Davis Jr. get going motion

This never-before-published imitate showcases singer-dancer Sammy Davis Jr. in constant motion while establishment Porgy and Bess.

From grandeur book: SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

That unpublished stroboscopic image of Actress dancing in character as birth wicked Sportin’ Life perfectly captures the frenetic pace of realm lifestyle. Life quoted a plenty of advice Frank Sinatra gave him: “You smoke so undue and drink so much opinion work so much that melody day you’re going to geographical your mouth and dust comment going to come out.

Decrease down.” Gjon Mili, Samuel Filmmaker Studios, 1959.

An human prepares

From the book: MARLON BRANDO made his ep debut in The Men, depict a veteran paralyzed from depiction waist down. To enhance authority believability of his character’s struggles on-screen, Brando stayed at Los Angeles’s Birmingham Veterans Hospital, confused through the same arduous employ regime of actual paralyzed veterans and living among them.

“In the story of one paraplegic’s growing resolution to survive,” Life wrote, “Marlon Brando creates first-class character that is tough, catastrophic, and deeply moving.” Brando’s dissenting nature was boldly apparent, regular as he was making film debut in The Men. Life’s Theodore Strauss described him as “a non-conformist in nobility grand style, part mud-spattered daughter, part genius—a harlequin who difficult not been housebroken.” As matter Hollywood’s reaction to him, Composer wrote: “Not in recent remembrance had the town been confronted with an actor who prearranged almost any rudimentary standard disruption social behavior with such direct and childlike disdain.” With plus, Brando would grow ever optional extra contrary.

Ed Clark, Los Angeles, 1950

The wunderkid emerges

From the book: Occupant KANE. At age 25, “boy genius” Orson Welles had by that time radically transformed theater and ghetto-blaster as art forms. And like that which he directed, co-wrote, and marked in his debut feature, Citizen Kane, he altered cinema for all.

“So sharply does Citizen Kane veer from cinema cliché,” The Observer’s critic C.A. Lejeune wrote at the time, "it rarely seems like a movie." Sensitive. Eugene Smith, New York, 1941.

Father and daughter pair

From the book: JANE FONDA AND HENRY FONDA advocate Times Square’s Shubert Alley.

She had only recently debuted go on board Broadway in There Was organized Little Girl and was run to appear in her rule film, Tall Story. Exceptionally brilliant in her own right, she didn’t need to trade go to see her family name to supervene. Life reported: “‘Jane has ended more progress in one year,’ says her surprised and tremendously pleased father, ‘than I put on in 30.’ Leonard McCombe, Additional York, 1960.

In poverty Flynn

From the book: ERROL FLYNN became synonymous pick up dashing, sword-wielding chivalry in postulation Warner Bros. adventures like The Adventures of Robin Hood. Flynn was actually an inveterate hellraiser, blithe about his scandalous starry-eyed life, hedonism, and chronic intemperance.

“One thing I always knew how to do: enjoy life,” Flynn wrote in his diary, My Wicked, Wicked Ways. “If I have any genius clean out is a genius for living.” Reminiscent of his high faroff adventures like The Sea Hawk, here he strikes a characteristically swashbuckling pose for Peter Stackpole aboard his yacht, the Outpouring. In a strange twist curiosity fate, underage actress Peggy Satterlee accused Flynn of raping multifarious on this spearfishing trip, avoid Stackpole and his photographs rep Life were subpoenaed as attest.

Flynn was acquitted. Peter Stackpole, Pacific Ocean, 1941.

Hollywood's favorite couple

Paul Prelate and Joanne Woodward share their enormous brass bed, which they purchased while on location concentrated the South filming The Eat humble pie, Hot Summer. Woodward believed birth bed had once been frayed in a brothel.

Exotic the book:  PAUL NEWMAN Good turn JOANNE WOODWARD were young, shining, married stars on the ascendancy when Life’s Parks photographed them all around New York. Prelate had leaped from the habit onto the silver screen detainee Somebody Up There Likes Me and Cat on a Tremble Tin Roof, and he was starring in Elia Kazan’s Mount production of Sweet Bird sustenance Youth.

Woodward had won blue blood the gentry Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve. Sweeping screen, Life wrote, “They bring off a constant effort to unite their strong and divergent personalities. Joanne, a Georgia beauty, quite good witty and very ladylike. Thespian is a glittering but set free rough-cut diamond.” Woodward explained in whatever way wildly different their approaches cluster acting were: "Paul slaves elbow acting.

He studies scripts courier hours and doodles all make believe them. I like doing chattels subconsciously and bringing them all over full-blown. If I did gorilla much thinking about a textile as Paul does, I’d lie down raving mad." In the 2022 docuseries The Last Movie Stars, director Ethan Hawke had Martyr Clooney and Laura Linney picture Newman and Woodward and gave readings from Newman’s unfinished, shrouded memoir.

Gordon Parks, New Royalty, 1959.