This site prides itself on bringing new photos and snapshots of stars from Hollywood’s Golden Era to our readers.
Through the last 80 years millions of publicity photos from the studios and the stars themselves have been circulated. These include shots from specific movies and staged publicity stills such as the one above.
But pictures like the ones posted below are precious, because they give us a different glimpse of what bygone Hollywood was like. Enjoy.
These candids sure show a strong contrast to the studio’s glamour shots. I like seeing them.
DONALD GORDON… I keep asking don’t I?
Maybe I should send in my candid HOLLYWOOD photos that I took between 1976 and 2016?
And several late friends donated their collections to me, thousands of wonderful unique photos, enough for a score of coffee table books, and they are even better and more diverse than Donald’s, as they show both the stars,directors, cinematographers, stuntmen etc., on a good many iconic films and TV shows of the 1950’s thru the 70’s.
From studio soundstages to backlots, to locations… Whether eating lunch in the studio commissary to playing baseball with the crew… It was a different era up until the early 1980’s, as the stars really did inter-act with the crew and make it a family-like environment.
But the super-agents changed all that, they brought in the entourages, handlers and bodyguards to keep the stars separated from the crew. Why, they even have separate basecamps from the other actors, for the big names like Tom Cruise.
Today, with all the intense security on set and confidentiality agreements the crew have to sign, you can only sneak a photo with your I-phone, and you risk getting fired and even prosecuted for doing so.
Today’s, CANDID photos of the stars are what the paparazzi take of them being drunk, getting arrested, shopping with their spouses, and generally looking very un-glamorous and ordinary.
DONALD GORDON and others like him, including my old friends and myself, would certainly not enjoy that same access and freedom now… And quite frankly, there’s no star today I would want to be around, let alone have a candid picture of!