Ava Gardner happily enjoys her footbath between takes of The Barefoot Contessa; a love story starring Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood unfolds under the cameras and continues offscreen during Love with the Proper Stranger; Jean-Luc Godard clowns around, playfully teasing Brigitte Bardot while shooting Contempt; between takes of Anne of the Thousand Days, Elizabeth Taylor works on her golf game in fully 16th-century costume: There was a time when the great movie legends were accessible to photographers simply, naturally and spontaneously, while they went about the business of being stars.
This is the first time these stolen moments-rare instances of relaxation and intimacy-have been gathered in a single book. Rehearsals and lunch breaks, pranks and hilarity, mishaps and accidents, games, naps and daydreaming: Stars on the Set, Stolen Moments brings you the best behind-the-scenes photos of stars just being themselves.
"These behind-the-camera moments are truly guilty pleasures. For students of cinema and for people who just love movies, Stars on the Set, Stolen Moments is an essential part of any film library." - Peter Herbst, Editor in Chief, Premiere.
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Folio. Boards. 247pp.
Authors: Marc Brincourt, Guillaume Clavières, and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
Published: 2002.
