
Sidney Lumet dead at age 86.

Francis Ford Coppola directs Gene Hackman in The Conversation in San Francisco. 1974.


John Cassavetes, Ralph Bellamy.



Patsy Kelly and Ruth Gordon.

Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby. Roman Polanski. 1968.

Chaplin and Brando on the set of A Countess from Hong Kong. Chaplin. 1967.
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Damned in Paradise: The Life of John Barrymore. John Kobler. 1977.
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Charlie Chaplin (as Mr. Wow-Woe) Mabel Normand and Mack Swain in Gentlemen of Nerve. Chaplin. 1914.
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