Virginia Mayo - BOTD

Jacqueline Logan by Nickolas Muray, 1928. #botd

Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott on the set of Alien (1979)

Evening reception in Hollywood once upon a time… Werner Otto von Hentig, Dolores Del Rio, Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier with his wife Yvonne Vallee, Vilma Banky, Paul Kohner, Carl Laemmle.

Tonight's viewing - "Mad Detective"

Semyon Bychkov - BOTD

Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, and Paul Henreid on the set of Night Train to Munich (1940) ❄️

Emmanuel Lubezki (with scenes from "Y Tu Mamá También", "The New World", "Birdman" and "The Revenant" where Lubezki served as the cinematographer) - BOTD

Ellen Drew in a publicity still for The Mad Doctor (1941)

BTD - Ridley Scott - The Duellists - 1977 - Czech release poster

#RIP Lise Bourdin 📷 Sam Lévin Today is Bourdin's Centennial 🎂💯 She died on November 28, two days before her 100th birthday.

Mark Twain (with scenes from the 1918 William Desmond Taylor film "Huck and Tom", based on the stories of Mark Twain) - BOTD

Jule Styne talking with Leonard Bernstein at a party, in a great photo by Gordon Parks, 1958

Happy birthday, Virginia Mayo! She had a better career than she gets credit for, with key roles as the icy moll in WHITE HEAT, the gold-digging wife in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, and the just plain evil FLAXY MARTIN (seek it out if you haven't seen it).

Jean Eustache (with scenes from his film "Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus") - BOTD

Duke Ellington at the Hurricane Club in New York City, 1943. Photo by Gordon Parks who was born on 30 November 1912.

Nina Simone

Gael García Bernal in "Bad Education" - BOTD

Future ballerinas of the American Ballet Theater (1937) by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Jean-Pierre Marielle, Françoise Fabian, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierre Vernier et Pierre Hatet, candidats aux concours du Conservatoire. à Paris, en 1954 Photo © Studio Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet

Hikari Mitsushima in "Love Exposure" - BOTD

Happy birthday Terrence Malick, pictured here with Martin Sheen on the set of Badlands.

Daryl Hannah - photo de production de Blade Runner de Ridley Scott (1982)

Terrence Malick (with scenes from his film "The New World") - BOTD

Cherie Currie in "Foxes" (with Jodie Foster) - BOTD

Daughters of the Dust (1991) Written and directed by Julie Dash Cinematography by Arthur Jafa - BOTD in 1960

Here’s to the Young Lady 1949 Kinoshita starring Sano & Hara

The most Coen bros thing the Coen bros ever did was write a story about writers block in 3 weeks when they were experiencing writers block whilst writing Miller’s Crossing & so Barton Fink came to be.

Czech poster for ALIEN (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott - BOTD in 1937

Gordon Parks (with scenes from his film "Shaft") - BOTD

Virginia and the future 40th President of the United States in The Girl from Jones Beach (1949). “As a comedy actress, Miss Mayo is no better than a rather weak script. But as a model for bathing apparel — well, do you or do you not like bathing suits?" — NY Times review

Orsen Wells, by Jane Bown.

Ridley Scott (with scenes from his film "The Duellists") - BOTD

Ida Lupino and Arthur Kennedy in “Devotion” (1946)

Něco z Alenky (Alice), Jan Švankmajer (1988)

Kinuyo Tanaka BOTD l'actrice aux 250 FILMS !!! le prix Kinuyo Tanaka qui récompense la meilleure actrice chaque année !!! BEST ACTRESS 💖

Jonathan Swift (with scenes from the 1902 Georges Méliès film "Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants", based on Swift's prose satire "Gulliver's Travels") - BOTD

Kenji Mizoguchi y Ayako Wakao en el set de Los músicos de Gion [祇園囃, 1953].

The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur, 1950) DoP: Ernest Haller #BOTD Virginia Mayo

Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart in, Dark Victory (1939).

Virginia Mayo in "White Heat" - BOTD

Pam Grier can poke me with her trident any time she likes

#BOTD 1912 Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks: "American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans."

Jacqueline Logan (center) as Mary Magdalene in THE KING OF KINGS (1927) Logan was BOTD in 1902

Images from films shot by cinematographer Karl Struss - BOTD in 1886 Sparrows (1926) Island of Lost Souls (1932) The Great Dictator (1940) The Alligator People (1959)

Director Jean Eustache and Jean-Pierre Leaud on the set of Eustache's masterpiece THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (1973) Eustache was BOTD in 1938

Polish poster for BADLANDS (1973) Written and directed by Terrence Malick - BOTD in 1943

Images from films shot by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki - BOTD in 1964 Sleepy Hollow (1999) Children of Men (2006) Burn After Reading (2008) The Tree of Life (2011)

#BOTD 1917 Ilse Steppat in Barmen, Germany. Actress, known for Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and Die blauen Schwerter (1949). Her only English language role was as Irma Bunt in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) She died of a heart attack less than a week after the film's release.

Terrence Malick is 82. I love the beautiful magic hour shots in Badlands.