Picture Show (A thread for interesting photos from the world of movies and TV)*

Here's some very rare behind-the-scenes shots on the CBS-TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-1963), a rare look at a B&W 3-camera sitcom. I believe those are Mitchell BNC cameras on Chapman crab dollies.






[pictures courtesy of Terry Wilkie on the Randy West Appreciation Group on Facebook]

 

What mother would name her daughter "Taffy"???

 

While shooting a promo for ABC's fall preview, 1966:

 

Here's a 1934 still pic from my friend, sound great Richard Van Dyke, who says:

Behind the scene shot from, "Forsaking All Others," with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. The Director sitting on the stool is someone I was asked if I was related to many times, early in my career as I worked with some older folks back then, is W.S. Van Dyke. I love this time in film history, look at the crew intently watching the filming, just as the Director is, and no video village, the Director respected the Cameraman to get the shot they had set up and the Director focused his/her attention on the performance. Also great shot of an old microphone in a perfect spot.



Amazing detail given that this shot is 85 years old!

 

Here are some more: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #483

And five selected from the above:

 

"Groucho Marx and Chico Marx with the Nawal of Hyderabad and his wife at Paramount studios"

 

Isn't there another photo like this but with Japanese dignitaries?

 

Stuart Margolin, Angel on the Rockford Files, in the crowd at Monterey, 1967



credit to dance_hall_keeper

 

What's this from.

 

Steptoe and Son. Harold's got a bird!

 

She won't stick around though... poor old Harold...

Was that pic from the film or the TV series?

 

Robert Mitchum on the set of Thunder Road with Randy Sparks, who sang the Mitchum penned theme

 

Trevor Howard & Laurence Harvey on the set of The Charge of The Light Brigade, 1967

Harvey owned the rights to the book on which John Osborne's early script for the film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) was partially based, Cecil Woodham-Smith's book The Reason Why (1953). He intended to make his own version.

A lawsuit was filed against director Tony Richardson's company Woodfall Film Productions on behalf of the book's author. There was a monetary settlement, and Harvey insisted on being cast in a cameo role (being cast as Prince Radziwell) as part of the agreement for which he was paid £60,000. Charles Wood was brought in to re-write the script. Harvey's scenes were cut from the movie at Richardson's insistence, except for a brief glimpse as an anonymous member of a theatre audience which, technically, still met the requirements of the legal settlement. John Osborne asserted in his autobiography that Richardson shot the scenes with Harvey "French", which is film jargon for a director going-through-the-motions because of some obligation, but with no film in the camera.​

 

Some great off-screen photos of Hitchcock's 1955 classic "To Catch A Thief" starring Cary Grant & Grace Kelly

 

This week's bunch now up here: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #484
The selection...

 

The Donna Reed Show

 

The first film.