François Truffaut in New York, 1974
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg at the Festival de Cannes, 1974
April 30th,1974, first day of filming on Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Tuesday, April 30, Ballachulish
First day of filming. Woken at 6:45. Sunshine streaming through the curtains. Into chain mail and red-cross tabard. A difficult day today - the Bridge of Death scene where Eric and I die and Lancelot is arrested by the police. Dangerous too - from what I hear. Difficult decision over Galahad’s blond wig. Instead of noble and youthful, I look like I should be serving in a supermarket. End of Galahad as a blond.
…Camera broke midway through first shot.
- Michael Palin’s Diaries:1969-1979
Francois Truffaut, Princess Grace of Monaco and Alfred Hitchcock during the Lincoln Centre Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock on April 29, 1974, in New York City.
François Truffaut accepting the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Day for Night, April 2, 1974. [Gene Kelly had translated Henri Langlois’s acceptance speech earlier in the evening.]
Yul Brynner and François Truffaut with his Oscar for La nuit américaine
Al Pacino photographed by Steve Wood in London, 1974.
Lou Reed 1974 (Par Claude Gassan)
Al Pacino, c. 1974
Yul Brynner presents Best Foreign Language Film to François Truffaut for Day for Night at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974.
Merci beaucoup. I need Gene Kelly.* I am very happy because... because why? Because "Day for Night" is a film about show people. You are, all of you, movie people. Because [of] that I think this prize is yours. But if you agree with me I will keep it for you, alright? Thank you.
* Earlier in the show Gene Kelly translated the acceptance speech of the French-speaking Henri Langlois.
Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward, with they children Melissa “Lissy” Newman and Claire “Clea” Newman, Circa 1974
Faye Dunaway on the set of Chinatown, 1974.
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