Philippe Halsman May 2, 1906 – June 25, 1979 Marilyn Monroe 1952 Life Magazine

Serge Reggiani, May 2, 1922 – July 23, 2004. With Jean-Pierre Melville during the making of Le doulos (1962).

Claude Monet in his house at Giverny, c. 1915-20

Lee Miller Photo by Man Ray Paris

Philippe Halsman May 2, 1906 – June 25, 1979 Marilyn Monroe 1952 Life Magazine

Serge Reggiani, May 2, 1922 – July 23, 2004. With Jean-Pierre Melville during the making of Le doulos (1962).

Lee Miller Photo by Man Ray Paris

Alice B. Toklas, April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967. With Gertrude Stein.

Danielle Darrieux, May 1, 1917 – October 17, 2017. 1941 photo by Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Bathers at Siouville-Hague in Normandy, France, photographed by Gustave Gain, 1921

Cyd Charisse, March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008. With Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain (1952).

Bathers at Siouville-Hague in Normandy, France, photographed by Gustave Gain, 1921

Claude Monet in his house at Giverny, c. 1915-20

Danielle Darrieux, May 1, 1917 – October 17, 2017. 1941 photo by Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Gothic 19th-century daguerreotype metal plate photograph of a young lady dubbed “Mona Lisa of the Deep”.

Portrait de Marie Antoinette, Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802), Jean-Baptiste Charpentier le Vieux (1728-1806), huile sur canvas, 64x52 cm. Versailles, Château De Versailles

Happy 44th, Kirsten Dunst. Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006).

Scatman Crothers, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, and Jill Clayburgh in SILVER STREAK (1976), directed by Arthur Hiller

Jill Clayburgh, April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010. With Alan Bates in Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman (1978).

Georg Baselitz RIP 23 January 1938 – 30 April 2026 woke up one day in 1969, looked at the entire history of painting, and said: “Nah. Everything’s upside down from now on.” This is Remix: Adieu 2006 Baselitz didn’t just paint Germany’s trauma. He made the canvas bleed it.

MELANCHOLIA 2011 Poster Happy 70th, Lars von Trier.

MELANCHOLIA 2011 Poster Happy 70th, Lars von Trier.

Scatman Crothers, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, and Jill Clayburgh in SILVER STREAK (1976), directed by Arthur Hiller

Jill Clayburgh, April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010. With Alan Bates in Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman (1978).

Georg Baselitz RIP 23 January 1938 – 30 April 2026 woke up one day in 1969, looked at the entire history of painting, and said: “Nah. Everything’s upside down from now on.” This is Remix: Adieu 2006 Baselitz didn’t just paint Germany’s trauma. He made the canvas bleed it.

Portrait de Marie Antoinette, Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802), Jean-Baptiste Charpentier le Vieux (1728-1806), huile sur canvas, 64x52 cm. Versailles, Château De Versailles

Happy 44th, Kirsten Dunst. Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006).

Alice B. Toklas, April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967. With Gertrude Stein.

Haydée Politoff in 'La collectionneuse' dir. by Eric Rohmer 1967

Haydée Politoff in 'La collectionneuse' dir. by Eric Rohmer 1967

Douglas Sirk, April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987.

Le Genou de Claire 1970, directed by Éric Rohmer Claire's Knee

“The good Earth - we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.” Kurt Vonnegut #earthday

Happy 89th, Jack Nicholson

Douglas Sirk, April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987.

“The good Earth - we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.” Kurt Vonnegut #earthday

Happy 89th, Jack Nicholson

La Strada (1954) Directed by Federico Fellini Anthony Quinn & Giulietta Masina

Le Genou de Claire 1970, directed by Éric Rohmer Claire's Knee

La Strada (1954) Directed by Federico Fellini Anthony Quinn & Giulietta Masina

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo on Breathless movie set 1959

Gothic 19th-century daguerreotype metal plate photograph of a young lady dubbed “Mona Lisa of the Deep”.

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.” Franz Kafka

Boris Lipnitzki Edith Piaf, Paris 1936

You Were Never Lovelier (1942) Fred Astaire

Nathalie Baye 6 July 1948 – 18 April 2026 RIP

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.” Franz Kafka

Audrey Hepburn on a bicycle - for LIFE Magazine. 1953 - by Mark Shaw BOTD