Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra (1963)
They began giggling the moment they were introduced, and they didn’t stop until the end of the shoot. It took acting like children to make them feel like grown-ups, and sometimes, it didn’t feel like acting at all. They entered that blurry realm after acting called surprise, when actors let go of their own thoughts and feelings and, as if through intravenous transfusion, fade into each other.
In those few months of production on Two for the Road, Audrey and Albie lived a brief lifetime of romance. Whatever happened to them in the hushed moments before a take, or privately, in seaside alcoves away from the set, can only be extrapolated from what they left on film: a dictionary’s worth of silent shorthand, realized in split-second nuance. And then their romance ended quickly, as soon as it had begun.
Marilyn in a wardrobe test for “Let’s Make Love”, 1960.
Marilyn photographed on the set of The Misfits,1960.
On the set of Paris When It Sizzles, 1962.
My new favorite picture…
Marilyn Monroe on the set of Niagara, 1952
Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis photographed by Richard Miller on the set of Some Like It Hot, 1959.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on the set of Dark Passage, 1947.
