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Lorraine Hansberry in her NYC apartment.

📸: David Attie
1959
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Kim Hunter with film producers Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger and Roger Livesey, pre filming A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), in 1945.

Photographed by Haywood Magee for PICTURE POST, published in 1945
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
cont'd

"it was of great comfort to Vivien. It meant a great deal to the film.

I haven't seen a lot of Kim, but when we do see each other, there is no time, no space between us. There she is again, just the same, my sweet sister, my buddy, my Stella."

—Brando on Kim Hunter

END
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cont'd

"She needed the sweet sister that Kim was and could be, and Kim rose to the occasion, looking after Vivien, being a buddy, watching out for her. Kim worked very hard to create a realistic relationship that we could believe existed between two sisters, and . . .

9/
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cont'd

"Karl [Malden] is one of the kindest men on the plant, and he was courtly and kind to Vivien. I did what I could, but there was always a distance—a respectful distance—between Vivien and me, both as Stanley and as Marlon.

8/
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cont'd

"Kim had a keen eye on the whole picture, the whole play.

Kim was phenomenally kind to Vivien [Leigh] during shooting of the film. Vivien felt very much alone, being the only person who hadn't been with us in New York, from the beginning.

7/
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cont'd

"the loud cat's meow. She defended both Stanley, her husband, and me, her partner who was playing her husband. She craved balance in the play and in the parts, so that people would see the merits in the stories and the actions of all the characters.

6/
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cont'd

"She worked so hard and so well, and, like Jessica [Tandy], you could see her move toward perfection in the part.

We helped each other a great deal: A lot of the humor of Stanley came from recommendations from Kim—the scattering of the dishes in the birthday scene;

5/
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cont'd

"Kim had had very little stage experience: she was one of [David O.] Selznick's young actresses, and she had been good, but she wanted—very badly—to be a good stage actress.

4/
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
cont'd

"Kim knew how to convey the power of carnal submission, and you really felt it on the stage. We had a remarkable chemistry.

I loved her. We grew up together in those parts.

Kazan was very tough on Kim—he forced her to grow up as both a woman and an actress.

3/
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
cont'd

"Kim really understood the undercarriage of Stella—the need to be real, when for so long pretension had rendered her—and her family—detached from the world, from the carnal world.

2/
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Also resharing my DISCLAIMER-Not-sorry-for-going-full-I-LOVE-THIS-DRESS-AND-LOOK-ON-GRACE-KELLY-IN-TO-CATCH-A-THIEF guest spot during the CINEMATIC STYLE: Cary Grant and His Leading Ladies event: dominiquerevue.weebly.com or visit www.crowdcast.io/c/cinematic-... to watch.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Grace Kelly

📸: Loomis Dean

Born Grace Patricia Kelly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania #OTD in 1929 . . . Remembering #GraceKelly on her Birthday Anniversary!
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Dominique Revue
Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYk...
S2E3: Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Vittorio De Sica
YouTube video by The CineHistorians Podcast
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November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM