Sam Peckinpah's 'The Getaway' (1972)

Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen

McQueen played Doc McCoy, an imprisoned mastermind robber whose wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) conspires for his release on the condition they rob a bank in Texas. A doublecross follows the crime, and the McCoys are forced to flee for Mexico with both the police and criminals in hot pursuit. Replete with explosions, car chases and intense shootouts, the film became Peckinpah's biggest financial success to date earning more than $25 million at the box office.

Grand Hotel

Wallace Beery as General Director Preysing

John Barrymore as the Baron, Joan Crawford as Flaemmchen and Lionel Barrymore as Otto Kringelein. Grand Hotel won the Academy Award for Best Picture, none of the artists were nominated though.

Best Actress

Kelly won the Oscar for Best Actress for the role, which previously had earned Uta Hagen her first Tony Award in the play's original Broadway production. The role, a non-glamorous departure for Kelly, was as the alcoholic actor's long-suffering wife.

The win was a huge surprise, as most critics and people in the press felt that Judy Garland would win for A Star Is Born. NBC even sent a camera crew to Garland's hospital room, where she was recuperating from the birth of her son, in order to conduct a live interview with her if she won. The win by Kelly instead famously prompted Groucho Marx to send Garland a telegram stating it was "the biggest robbery since Brinks."

Gentlemen of the press!!!

  

Judy Garland

 Spoofing a movie star who can only be cast in Oscar-winning dramas, but wants to play "sexy" roles (a la Greer Garson, or Katharine Hepburn) giving an interview to dancing reporters about "her next picture": a bio-pic of Madame Cremantante (the "inventor of the safety pin"). Originally to be directed by Garland's friend Charles Walters, Vincente Minnelli ended up directing the sequence (the two were dating at the time), and Walters was reassigned as choreographer.

"Ziegfield Follies" and directed by Vincent Minnelli

Cedric Gibbons

Austin Cedric Gibbons, Irish American art director/ production designer who was one of the most important & influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater architecture. He is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette in 1928. Art director of 1,050 movies.

Hush… Hush, Sweet Agnes

Agnes Moorehead was nominated and for and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Farrell and Heller won a 1965 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The song became a hit for Patti Page, who took it to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The film's seven Oscar nominations were the most for a movie of the horror genre.

Christian Lacroix

Born Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer.

Lacroix's background in historical costume and clothing, Lacroix soon made headlines with his opulent, fantasy creations, including the short puffball skirt ("le pouf"), rose prints, and low décolleté necklines. He referenced widely from other styles—from fashion history (the corset and the crinoline), from folklore, and from many parts of the world—and he mixed his references in a topsy-turvy manner. He favored the hot colors of the Mediterranean region, a hodgepodge of patterns, and experimental fabrics, sometimes handwoven in local workshops.

Fiona Campbell-Walter

In the 1950s, Fiona Campbell-Walter worked with many fashion photographers: Henry Clarke early on and often with John Deakin, Frances McLaughlin-Gill, John French , and David Bailey.

Fiona Campbell in Christian Dior by Henry Clarke, 1951.

Remembering James Dean

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

Beverly Johnson

Beverly Johnson, wearing a buttonless rib-knit cardigan, jersey scarf blouse, and a striped knit skirt by Kasper with belt by Christian Dior. 1974

Photo by Francesco Scavullo

June Clarke

1950's Fashion model

Portrait of Elsa Thiemann

Bauhaus students became world famous for their art or architecture. But many Bauhausler and their works remain largely unknown. One of them is the photographer Elsa Franke-Thiemann, who, as she was in Dessau, designed wallpaper and took photographs that are completely contrary to typical Bauhaus style.

Joseph Strick

Joseph Strick was an American director, producer and screenwriter.

The Academy Film Archive preserved several of Joseph Strick's films including Los Angeles-based short subject "Muscle Beach" made with Irving Lerner in 1948.