
-Audrey Hepburn
Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1959


-Hedy Lamarr


-Shelley Winters, 1949


-Elizabeth Taylor

![Kim Novak & Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Vertigo (1958) On Kim Novak’s performance: “You think you’re getting a lot. You’re not. It was very difficult to obtain what I wanted from [Kim Novak] because her head was full of her own ideas. But as long as I’m pleased with the result…In any case, the role was intended for another actress, Vera Miles. We were ready to begin filming…when, instead of seizing the opportunity of a lifetime, Vera Miles became pregnant. I ask you! I was offering Vera Miles a big part, the chance to become a beautiful, sophisticated blonde, a real actress. We’d have spent a heap of dollars on it, and she has the bad taste to get pregnant. I hate pregnant women, because then they have children.” -Alfred Hitchcock “I don’t know if he ever liked me. I never sat down with him for dinner or tea or anything, except one cast dinner, and I was late to that. It wasn’t my fault, but I think he thought I had delayed to make a star entrance, and he held that against me. During the shooting, he never really told me what he was thinking. I know that Hitchcock gave me a lot of freedom in creating the character, but he was very exact in telling me exactly what to do. How to move, where to stand. I think you can see a little of me resisting that in some of the shots, kind of insisting on my own identity.” -Kim Novak](http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/vertigo1.jpg)
On Kim Novak’s performance: “You think you’re getting a lot. You’re not. It was very difficult to obtain what I wanted from [Kim Novak] because her head was full of her own ideas. But as long as I’m pleased with the result…In any case, the role was intended for another actress, Vera Miles. We were ready to begin filming…when, instead of seizing the opportunity of a lifetime, Vera Miles became pregnant. I ask you! I was offering Vera Miles a big part, the chance to become a beautiful, sophisticated blonde, a real actress. We’d have spent a heap of dollars on it, and she has the bad taste to get pregnant. I hate pregnant women, because then they have children.”
-Alfred Hitchcock
“I don’t know if he ever liked me. I never sat down with him for dinner or tea or anything, except one cast dinner, and I was late to that. It wasn’t my fault, but I think he thought I had delayed to make a star entrance, and he held that against me. During the shooting, he never really told me what he was thinking. I know that Hitchcock gave me a lot of freedom in creating the character, but he was very exact in telling me exactly what to do. How to move, where to stand. I think you can see a little of me resisting that in some of the shots, kind of insisting on my own identity.”
-Kim Novak


I hate the spotlight, I hate people looking at me, I don’t like strangers asking me questions. I like to be left alone. I enjoy my security, my safeness with a private life. I was once on a television show, a talk show. My brother had just died two days before that. The interviewer opens his show by saying – and now I was 16 years old – he said, ‘Did your brother kill himself because you played Lolita?’ I didn’t say a thing. I got up and I walked off. I couldn’t even dignify that. I had no words. That’s typical of the reason that I can’t be a movie star. I never could.
Am I going to be Lolita when I’m 50? Much as I appreciated Lolita in her day, I’d like to leave her now.”
—Sue Lyon,1962


-Bette Davis

![Josef Von Sternberg & Marlene Dietrich on the set of Dishonored (1931, dir. Josef Von Sternberg) “The strongest appeal [of the film medium] to the masses was the simplest one: the formula always revolves around sex and its biological associate, violence. One bond that links all audiences is the animal in man.” -Josef Von Sternberg](http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/von.jpg)
“The strongest appeal [of film] to the masses was the simplest one: the formula always revolves around sex and its biological associate, violence. One bond that links all audiences is the animal in man.”
-Josef Von Sternberg


-Jayne Mansfield
November 1, 1962, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Jayne Mansfield on the set of “Hangover.” This is a rare photo of Mansfield without a wig. Her performance in this episode shows that she had acting chops — when she wasn’t doing a sad MM knock-off.


-Cary Grant


-Eva Marie Saint


-Nicholas Ray, director of Johnny Guitar
Photo of Joan Crawford, 1959, by Eve Arnold.


-Natalie Wood

The ones by Natalie Wood and Eva Marie Saint are my favorites. EMS’s because her perspective is good and NW’s because it’s true for me.
I really liked the paintings (had to look up a lot of the back stories).
Wonderful quotes! Of all the wonderful quotes it seemed that Sue Lyon had the most sense for a star. I would imagine they get some real insensitive questions at times.
Have a friend who has a wonderful story about Jayne Mansfield. I guess this was in the mid 60s or so – he was for 46 years a legendary photographer for our newspaper.
I’m in his house, and see this picture of a voluptuous blond standing up in his Mercedes 250SL. (they made the 250 from 1966-1967).
I said “that looks like Jayne Mansfield” – he replied “It is”
She had come to town to shoot a commercial for a furniture store – think she even brought her Ferrari. My friend was assigned to interview her.
Anyway they hit it off and Jayne asked him to show her around town during the weekend. And along the way they stopped at the pound, and Jayne adopted a kitten as I recall.
I guess she was killed just a few months later.
Another great edition of Friday Photos, Robert.
I am partial to Rebecca at the Well by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RebeccaAtTheWell_Giovanni.jpg
I’ve always been intrigued by the Jayne Mansfield story. Such a bright woman striving to appear to be a dumb, buxom blonde…