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Video of my current profile photo. My male alter ego is back in my favorite place, film noir. He's older and thicker here, but he's the boss. The gang is about to pull something off. Sound on, please! #AI #AIvideo

Your Monday nightcap: Steve Cochran #BOTD and Barbara Payton on the backlot at Warner Brothers. The photo was taken during the production of DALLAS (1950). #classicstars

Steve Cochran #BOTD, Jayne Mansfield, and Ed Wynne, owner of the Harwyn Club in New York, in 1957. Yes, Jayne, I’d look at him like that, too. ❤️‍🔥 #classicstars

@MWKronenberg @noircitymag @noirfoundation Ah, today’s birthday boy, Steve Cochran in IL GRIDO.

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Jeanne Crain #BOTD and William Lundigan, publicity photo for PINKY (1949). Crain received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. #classicstars

@JimLNeibaur Or Canada Lee. imdb.com/name/nm0496938…

Whenever someone lists great Black male actors, the oldest one is always Sidney Poitier. Well, yeah, he is great and an important trailblazer. But let's not forget James Edwards, a fine actor who should never be overlooked on such lists.

Jeanne Crain #botd in a promotional pin-up portrait for the 20th Century Fox film noir VICKI (1953). Photo by Peter Basch. #classicstars

@SugarpussOShea1 @FlaggHazel2 @brindi333 Absolutely 💯

@FlaggHazel2 @brindi333 I think this and Come Next Spring are his best non-heavy performances. Too bad he didn’t get more opportunities

Let me recommend Tomorrow Is Another Day, one of Cochran's best films and performances. For once, he doesn't play the heavy.

@FlaggHazel2 It’s a remarkable performance, especially at the start, as he’s playing a man who’s been in prison since he was a teenager, so doesn’t understand how to deal with the outside world.

@StoliarSteve I do love the way they’re looking at her.

@baileymarkham That's a great candid shot. Never saw it before. Lemmon was a wonderful man - on and off-camera.

A behind-the-scenes moment with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon on the set of SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) #classicstars

Italian movie poster for the 1957 film IL GRIDO (The Outcry) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Steve Cochran ❤️‍🔥 #BOTD #movieposter

GM! A rosy Warner Bros. studio portrait of Jane Wyman, 1947. #classicstars

Your Sunday nightcap: Adam West in the shadow of Batman, which is where he would always be. Photo by Geoff Spear, 1989. #classicstars #vintageTV

Bette Davis looking regal portraying Queen Elizabeth I in the 1955 film THE VIRGIN QUEEN. #classicstars

@BrigadierBurma I don’t think anyone regards him as a singer. It’s about his songs.

@baileymarkham Likely the worst professional singer alive in the world today.

Bob Dylan #BOTD. Photograph by Richard Avedon, 1963.

GM! Lilyan Tashman wearing a "perfume bottle" costume designed by Art Deco artist Erté in the 1925 silent film BRIGHT LIGHTS. The film is considered lost, making this still photograph one of the few surviving records of the costume. #classicstars

Your Saturday nightcap: Hollywood's first "golden couple," Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. #BOTD and Mary Pickford, circa 1926. #classicstars

@noirgal17 I wish the cake was for Herbert Marshall's birthday, but we can pretend! 🎂

@baileymarkham Great photo!!

Herbert Marshall #BOTD, Marlene Dietrich, and director Ernst Lubitsch on the set of ANGEL (1937) celebrating the 25th anniversary of Lubitsch's debut as a film director. Marlene Dietrich hosted a party on set to honor this milestone. #classicstars