Nathalie Morris

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Object of the week

Object of the week: Haunting photos of empty sets for Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock often preferred sets to real locations and these eerily empty photographs show his constructed backdrops for the Highlands, train and Palladium sequences of The 39 Steps.

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: Haunting photos of empty sets for Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps

Object of the week

Object of the week: Cecil Beaton’s costume design for Vivien Leigh as Anna Karenina

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: Cecil Beaton’s costume design for Vivien Leigh as Anna Karenina

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Object of the week: Dirk Bogarde’s annotated script for classic blackmail drama Victim

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: Dirk Bogarde’s annotated script for classic blackmail drama Victim

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Object of the week: Production design for The L-Shaped Room

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: Production design for The L-Shaped Room

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Object of the week: The Polish poster for Sidney Poitier drama To Sir, with Love

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: The Polish poster for Sidney Poitier drama To Sir, with Love

Object of the week

Object of the week: The toy theatre and cut-out characters created for Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: The toy theatre and cut-out characters created for Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet

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The letter that made Audrey Hepburn a star

By Nathalie Morris

The letter that made Audrey Hepburn a star

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Object of the week: production design for the Hindi classic Pakeezah by British sketch artist Ivor Beddoes

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: production design for the Hindi classic Pakeezah by British sketch artist Ivor Beddoes

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The unique teaser posters for Ealing’s post-war émigré drama Frieda

By Nathalie Morris

The unique teaser posters for Ealing’s post-war émigré drama Frieda

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Behind-the-scenes photos of documentary pioneer Humphrey Jennings filming alt-history drama The Silent Village

By Nathalie Morris

Behind-the-scenes photos of documentary pioneer Humphrey Jennings filming alt-history drama The Silent Village

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives: a costume drawing for the 1970s historical epic

By Nathalie Morris

Henry VIII and His Six Wives: a costume drawing for the 1970s historical epic

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The annotated shooting script for The Third Man, minus the ‘cuckoo clock’ speech

By Nathalie Morris

The annotated shooting script for The Third Man, minus the ‘cuckoo clock’ speech

Object of the week

The shooting script for Sally Potter’s Orlando

By Nathalie Morris

The shooting script for Sally Potter’s Orlando

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Alan Whicker’s cue cards for interviewing Sean Connery on You Only Live Twice

By Nathalie Morris

Alan Whicker’s cue cards for interviewing Sean Connery on You Only Live Twice

Object of the week

Object of the week: The colourful lists from Peter Wollen’s notebook

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: The colourful lists from Peter Wollen’s notebook

Object of the week

Object of the week: The Red Shoes wallpaper by the film’s designer Hein Heckroth

By Nathalie Morris

Object of the week: The Red Shoes wallpaper by the film’s designer Hein Heckroth

Features

A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating

By Miriam Bale, Anne Billson and others

A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating

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Brunch with Bogart: hardboiled heroes and eggs over easy

By Nathalie Morris

Brunch with Bogart: hardboiled heroes and eggs over easy

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The great Mildred Pierce bake off

By Nathalie Morris

The great Mildred Pierce bake off

In pictures

12 dazzling vintage film posters from the golden age of Indian cinema

By Nathalie Morris

12 dazzling vintage film posters from the golden age of Indian cinema

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Paul Robeson: the singer and activist who pioneered a path for black actors

By Nathalie Morris

Paul Robeson: the singer and activist who pioneered a path for black actors

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Inside Whicker’s World: The life and travels of Alan Whicker

By Nathalie Morris

Inside Whicker’s World: The life and travels of Alan Whicker

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Tales of a film editor: the making of Olivier’s Hamlet

By Nathalie Morris

Tales of a film editor: the making of Olivier’s Hamlet

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The world of 1940s design in Olivier’s Shakespeare films

By Claire Smith and Nathalie Morris

The world of 1940s design in Olivier’s Shakespeare films

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Raise a gin and Dubonnet to Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I’m Going!” at 70

By Nathalie Morris

Raise a gin and Dubonnet to Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I’m Going!” at 70

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The ‘Parkive’: an exclusive look through Alan Parker’s archives

By Nathalie Morris

The ‘Parkive’: an exclusive look through Alan Parker’s archives

10 great

10 great films set in East Anglia

By Sam Wigley, Alex Davidson and others

10 great films set in East Anglia

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How to make Katharine Hepburn’s chocolate brownies

By Nathalie Morris

How to make Katharine Hepburn’s chocolate brownies

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On the set of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

By Nathalie Morris

On the set of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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What we’ll be wearing in the future (if classic sci-fi films got it right)

By Nathalie Morris

What we’ll be wearing in the future (if classic sci-fi films got it right)