
Billy Wilder directs Otto Preminger in Stalag 17. 1953.

Gloria Stuart, dead at 100. (Above with Eva Moore in The Old Dark House and below with Dick Powell in Gold Diggers of 1935.)

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Rollie Totheroh, Chaplin‘s cameraman, marks the slate on The Floorwalker. 1916.

The Gold Rush. 1925.

The Immigrant. 1917.
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Jean-Pierre Melville photographed standing in the ruins of his studio after its destruction by fire. 1967.

Jacqueline Sassard and Stéphane Audran in Claude Chabrol‘s Les biches. 1968.

Michel Bouquet in La femme infidèle. 1969.
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. Clive Donner (who died on Monday). 1966.
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