Stanley Kubrick
Director
Producer
Writer
Photographer
July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999
Sunday, July 26, 2026
A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick:
A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work
of Stanley Kubrick.
Day of the Fight (1951)
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Flying Padre (1951)
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2022.
Music credit:
Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod.
If it can be written, or thought, it can be
filmed.
– Stanley Kubrick.
In memory of Stanley Kubrick
Director
Producer
Writer
Photographer
July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999
Recommended reading - The Stanley Kubrick Archives, by Alison Castle (2008)
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The Stanley Kubrick Archives
by Alison Castle (2008).
Made in cooperation with Jan
Harlan, Christiane Kubrick and The Stanley Kubrick Estate.
Published by TASCHEN.
ISBN-10: 3822822841
ISBN-13: 9783822822845
Preface:
– Alison Castle, Paris, 2004.
ISBN-13: 9783822822845
The making of this book has been
something of an odyssey: two years of traveling through time and space to the
heart of Stanley Kubrick's universe, where I not only had the unprecedented
privilege of having access to his archives, but also the invaluable guidance of
those who were closest to him. Kubrick's wife, Christiane, and executive
producer, Jan Harlan, were not only immensely generous in allowing me to
"excavate" the various parts of his St. Albans estate where the
archives are stored, but they were also exceedingly kind, supportive, and
helpful during the entire process. In addition, I was very fortunate to have
the aid of Anthony Frewin and Leon Vitali, Kubrick's longtime assistants, who
tirelessly answered my questions and offered invaluable advice and assistance.
Endeavoring to uncover each and
every artifact that could cast light upon Kubrick's creative process, I scoured
the archives, gathering the most illuminating items, from bits of paper covered
with hurriedly scribbled notes to photographs taken by Kubrick on the sets of
his films. Hunched over hundreds upon hundreds of contact sheets with my loupe,
I was able to select images that had never been printed before, let alone seen;
rifling through screenplay drafts I found references to scenes that were never
filmed, and among the photos I found images of sequences that were abandoned;
reading Kubrick's notes and letters, I discovered not only clues to his thought
processes but also his curious love affair with various types of stationery,
typewriters, and pens. Searching through the often chaotic mountains of
material was an exhilarating experience: each and every "discovery"
was like a minor miracle, a defining moment, an epiphany.
Part 2 of this book features the
result of this gleaning: an eclectic collection of material that represents the
nuts and bolts of Kubrick's creative history. To help guide readers through the
expedition is a selection of articles and essays by noted Kubrick scholars as
well as a generous selection of material "from the horse's mouth"
(i.e. Kubrick letters, essays, and interviews), refuting the popular
misconception that Kubrick was a recluse who didn't or wouldn't talk about his
work.
The items presented in Part 2
offer valuable insight into Kubrick's filmmaking process, though the most
important material from the archives is unquestionably the films themselves.
Kubrick once said, "The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection
for it, not our ability to explain why it is good." Part 1 offers plenty
of opportunities for readers to test their affection: from Killer's Kiss to
Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's twelve feature films are represented by a vast
selection of stills (not including his first feature, Fear and Desire, which he
withdrew from circulation). The stills, which were scanned directly from the
film reels, are presented chronologically, unadulterated and without text.
In an interview about 2001: A
Space Odyssey, Kubrick made a statement that reflects one of his central
tenets: "Reactions to art are always different because they are always
deeply personal.... [T]he film becomes anything the viewer sees in it."
The goal of this book is to allow readers the chance to explore Kubrick's
archives intuitively, absorbing the various puzzle pieces and assembling them
into a personal interpretation. This is, I hope, the way Stanley Kubrick would
have wanted it.
On this day in movie history - Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location (2024)
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Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
documentary directed and written
by Paul King,
released in the United States on
July 26, 2024.
Music by Andrew Scullin.
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Cast: Jan Harlan, Katharina
Kubrick, Michael Sheen, Leslie Tomkins, Lisa Burns, Louise Burns, Scatman
Crothers, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick, Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Philip
Stone, Joe Turkel.
Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying
information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak.
But only certain sentences breathe and shift
about, like live matter in soil.
- Jhumpa Lahiri.
Born on this day – George Barr McCutcheon:
George Barr McCutcheon
Writer
July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928
Credits:
Books:
A Fool and His Money (1913);
Anderson Crow Detective (1920); Beverly of Graustark (1904); Black Is White
(1914); Blades (1928); Books Once Were Men (1931); Brewster’s Millions (1902);
Castle Craneycrow (1902); Day of the Dog / Flyers / Purple Parasol / Her Weight
in Gold (1916); East of the Setting Sun (1924); From the Housetops (1916);
Graustark (1901); Green Fancy (1917); Her Weight In Gold (1914); Jane Cable
(1906); Kindling and Ashes (1926); Mary Midthorne (1911); Mr. Bingle (1915);
Nedra (1905); Oliver October (1923); Quiddlers Three (2004); Quill’s Window
(1921); Romeo in Moon Village (1925); The Alternative (1909); The Butterfly Man
(1910); The City of Masks (1918); The Daughter of Anderson Crow (1907); The Day
of the Dog (1904); The Flyers (1907); The Hollow of Her Hand (1912); The
Husbands of Edith (1908); The Inn of the Hawk and Raven (1927); The Light That
Lies (1916); The Man From Brodney’s (1908); The Merivales (1929); The Prince Of
Graustark (1914); The Purple Parasol (1905); The Rose in the Ring (1910); The
Sherrods (1902); Truxton King (1909); Viola Gwyn (1922); West Wind Drift
(1920); What’s-His-Name (1911); Yollop (1922).
Movies and television:
A Fool and His Money (1920 / 1925); An Opal Ring (1915); Beverly of Graustark (1914 / 1926); Black Is White (1920); Brewster’s Millions (1914 / 1921 / 1935 / 1945 / 1985); Cowardice Court (1919); Graustark (1915 / 1925); Hands of Mystery (1951); Hello Mr. Billionaire (2018); In the Hollow of Her Hand (1918); Miss Brewster’s Millions (1926); Mr. Bingle (1922); Nedra (1915); Our Mutual Girl, No. 49 (1914); Saved by Parcel Post (1913); Sherry (1920); The Butterfly Man (1920); The Circus Man (1914); The City of Masks (1920); The Fast Worker (1924); The Man from Brodney’s (1923); The Mystery Girl (1918); The Prince of Graustark (1916); The Prisoner (1923); Three on a Spree (1961); Truxton King (1923); What’s His Name (1914).
Born on this day – Gracie Allen:
Gracie Allen
Vaudevillian
Singer
Actress
Comedian
July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964
Credits:
100% Service (1931); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); 5th Annual TV Academy Hall of Fame (1989); A Damsel in Distress (1937); American Masters (1997–2017); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Biography (2002); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); Classic Stand-Up Comedy of Television (1996); Climax! (1956); College Holiday (1936); College Humor (1933); College Swing (1938); Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest (1995); Fit to Be Tied (1930); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Here Comes Cookie (1935); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 (1932); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Honolulu (1939); International House (1933); Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970); Lambchops (1929); Larry King Live (2003); Legends of Comedy (1992); Let's Dance (1933); Love in Bloom (1935); Many Happy Returns (1934); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); Murphy Brown (1989); Oh, My Operation (1931); Olympic Fund Telethon (1952); Once Over, Light (1931); Our World (1987); Patents Pending (1932); Paul Henning & The Hillbillies (2005); Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Pioneers of Primetime (1995); Pioneers of Television (2014); Pulling a Bone (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 33, No. 10: Hollywood Grows Up (1954); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Shower of Stars (1955); Six of a Kind (1934); Stars in the Eye (1952); Startime (1959); Stu's Show (2023); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The 8th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1956); The Actor's Society Benefit Gala (1949); The Antique Shop (1931); The Babbling Book (1932); The Big Broadcast (1932); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Bob Cummings Show (1957); The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957); The Factor (2008); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame (1993); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939); The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Great Standups (1984); The History of Comedy (2017); The Hollywood Palace (1982); The Jack Benny Program (1952–1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957); The World Our Stage (1957); This Is Your Life (1955); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Walking the Baby (1933); We're Not Dressing (1934); What's My Line? (1954); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Your Hat (1932).
Born on this day – Evelyn Preer:
Evelyn Preer
Actress
Singer
July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932
Credits:
Birthright (1924); Blonde Venus (1932); Brown Gravy
(1929); Deceit (1923); Georgia Rose (1930); Good Sport (1931); Husband's
Holiday (1931); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Oft in the Silly Night (1929);
The Brute (1920); The Conjure Woman (1926); The Devil's Disciple (1926); The
Framing of the Shrew (1929); The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921); The Homesteader
(1919); The Lady Fare (1929); The Melancholy Dame (1929); The Spider's Web
(1927); The Widow's Bite (1929); Within Our Gates (1920).
Born on this day – Lorna Gray:
Lorna Gray
Actress
July
26, 1917 – April 30, 2017
Credits:
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002); Adventure in Sahara (1938); Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945); Along the Oregon Trail (1947); Andy Clyde Gets Spring Chicken (1939); Back to the Woods / Three Sappy People (1939); Beware Spooks! (1939); Biography (1997); Brimstone (1949); Bullets for Rustlers (1940); Cafe Hostess (1940); California Firebrand (1948); Captain America (1944); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Coast Guard (1939); Convicted Woman (1940); Dakota (1945); Daughter of Don Q (1946); Deadwood Dick (1940); Drums of the Desert (1940); Exposed (1947); F.B.I. 99 (1966); Fashion Model (1945); Father Steps Out (1941); Federal Operator 99 (1945); Flying G-Men (1939); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Hideout (1949); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); Home on the Range (1946); Last Frontier Uprising (1947); Lightnin' in the Forest (1948); Love's A-Poppin' (1953); Man from Rainbow Valley (1946); Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976); Missing Daughters (1939); Mooching Through Georgia / Pest from the West (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates (1966); O, My Darling Clementine (1943); Oh! Susanna (1951); Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939); Out California Way (1946); Outside These Walls (1939); Perils of Nyoka (1942); Red River Range (1938); Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942); Rock Island Trail (1950); Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940); Scandal Street (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Skinny the Moocher (1939); Smashing the Spy Ring (1938); So Proudly We Hail! (1943); Spoilers of the North (1947); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Tell It to a Star (1945); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Awful Goof (1939); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Gallant Legion (1948); The Girl Who Dared (1944); The Last Bandit (1949); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Man They Could Not Hang (1939); The Plunderers (1948); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Savage Horde (1950); The Sea Hornet (1951); The Stranger from Texas (1939); The 3 Stooges / Episode: You Nazty Spy! (1940); Those High Grey Walls (1939); Thrill of a Lifetime (1937); Tuxedo Junction (1941); Under Colorado Skies (1947); Up in the Air (1940); Valley of the Zombies (1946); Yellow Fin (1951).
Born on this Day - Jean Shepherd:
Jean Shepherd
Writer
Actor
Humorist
Radio and TV personality
July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999
Credits:
Books:
A Christmas Story (2003); A Fistful of Fig Newtons (1981); In God We Trust / aka In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (1966); The America of George Ade (1960); The Ferrari in the Bedroom (1972); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1978); Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (1970).
Author of In God We trust: All Others Pay Cash.
Filmed as A Christmas Story in 1983.
Albums:
Jean Shepherd – Into the Unknown With Jazz Music (1955); Jean Shepherd and Other Foibles (1959); Jean Shepherd Reads Poems of Robert Service (1975); “Live” At The Limelight (1965); The Declassified Jean Shepherd (1971); Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? (1960).
Movies and television:
A Christmas
Story / Voice-over narration (1983); A Christmas Story 2 (2012); A Christmas
Story Christmas (2022); A Christmas Story Live! (2017); A Fine Madness (1966);
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); America (1971); American
Playhouse (1982–1985); Babe Ruth (1998); Chicago White Sox a Visual History
(1987); Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (1997); Ernie Kovacs:
Television's Original Genius (1982); Flickers (1980); Jean Shepherd on Route
1... and Other Major Thoroughfares (1984); Late Night with David Letterman
(1982); Lenny Bruce: Without Tears (1972); Light Fantastic (1964); My Summer
Story (1994); NET Playhouse (1970); New Faces (1954); No Whistles, Bells, or
Bedlam (1973); Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (1987); Ollie Hopnoodle's
Haven of Bliss (1988); Sesame Street (1976–2000); Shadows (1958); Shepherd's
Pie (1978); Summer Incident (1960); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dennis
Wholey Show (1969); The Driving Scene (1969); The Great American Road Racing
Festival (1985); The Joe Franklin Show (1972); The Merv Griffin Show
(1966–1969); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976 / 1978); The Radio Broadcast
Vault (2019); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar
(1961–1962); Tiki Tiki (1971); Village Sunday (1960); Visions (1976).
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Born on this day – Blake Edwards:
Blake Edwards
Director
Producer
Writer
Actor
July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010
#PinkPanther #PeterGunn #DaysofWineandRoses #10 #BreakfastatTiffanys #OperationPetticoat
Born on this day – James Best:
James Best
Actor
Writer
Director
Acting coach
Artist
Professor
Musician
Animal rights advocate
July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015
Born on this day – Elliott Erwitt:
Elliott Erwitt
Photographer
Director
Cinematographer
July 26, 1928 – November 29,
2023
100+1 Elliott Erwitt (1997);
Between the Sexes (1994); Dog Dogs A collection of black and white photographs
of dogs Erwitt was intrigued by throughout his world travels (1998); EE 60/60
(2002); Elliot Erwitt's Scotland (2018); Elliott Erwitt Personal Best (2010);
Elliott Erwitt XXL – Special and Collectors Edition (2012); Elliott Erwitt,
Sequentially Yours (2011); Elliott Erwitt: The Private Experience / Series:
Masters of Contemporary Photography (1974); Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (2002);
Elliott Erwitt's Kolor Kempen, Germany: teNeues (2013); Elliott Erwitt's New
York (2009); Elliott Erwitt's Rome (2009); Found, Not Lost (2021); Museum
Watching (1999); Observations on American Architecture (1972); On the Beach
(1991); Personal Exposures (1988); Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972);
Pittsburgh 1950 (20117); Recent Developments (1978); Snaps. London & New
York: Phaidon (2001); Son of Bitch, photographs of dogs (1974); The Angel Tree
(1993); The Art of Andre S. Solidor aka Elliott Erwitt (2010); To The Dogs
(1992); Woof (2005)
2nd House (1974); 3 x Magnum
(2006); 4 Little Girls (1997); A Sense of Loss (1972); American Masters
(2005–2006); Arte Journal (2023); Arthur Penn: The Director (1970); Articulate
with Jim Cotter (2019); At Home with Elliott Erwitt (2013); Beautiful Baby,
Beautiful (1980); Beauty Knows No Pain (1972); Cinéma cinémas (1989); Copyright
by Inge Morath (1992); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Elliott
Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs (2011); Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (2019);
Everybody Street (2013); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009);
Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2002); Henri Cartier-Bresson: The
Impassioned Eye (2003); Incontournables: Les grandes expositions de 2010
(2010); Le cinéma dans l'oeil de Magnum (2017); L'invité (2006); Mapplethorpe:
Look at the Pictures (2016); Paper Lion (1968); The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan
(1986); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Misfits (1961); The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty (2013); The Unwed Mother (1964); Thelonious Monk: Straight, No
Chaser (1988); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2008); Un jour, un destin (2011);
Un voyageur (2013).
Born on this day – Kathryn Hays:
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Kathryn Hays
Actress
July 26, 1934 – March 25, 2022
Credits:
ABC Late
Night (1975); After Hours: Getting to Know Us (1977); American Playhouse
(1989); Arrest and Trial (1964); As the World Turns (1972–2010); Bearcats!
(1971); Bonanza (1964); Branded (1965); Breakout (1970); Cade’s County (1972);
Circle of Fear (1973); Counterpoint (1967); Dr. Kildare (1963); Guiding Light
(1952); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Here Come the Brides (1969); Kraft Suspense
Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1963); Ladybug
Ladybug (1963); Law & Order (1999); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(2007); Mannix (1968); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1969); Mr. Novak (1964); Naked City (1962); Night Gallery (1972); One Life to
Live (2010); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); Ride Beyond Vengeance
(1966); Route 66 (1963); Run for Your Life (1966); SoapTalk (2006); Star Trek /
episode entitled: The Empath, originally aired December 6 (1968); Surfside 6
(1962); The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023); The 33rd Annual
Daytime Emmy Awards (2006); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Bold Ones:
The New Doctors (1971); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors and the Nurses
(1964); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The High Chaparral (1968); The Hollywood
Squares (Daytime) (1967); The Lieutenant (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
(1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Road West (1966–1967); The Virginian
(1965); This Savage Land (1969); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Wide Country
(1963); Yuma (1971).
Born on this day – Brenton Wood:
Brenton Wood
R&B singer
Songwriter
July 26, 1941 – January 3, 2025
Credits:
Albums:
18 More of the Best, Vol. 2
(1999); Baby You Got It (1967); Better Believe It (2000); Brenton Wood's 18
Best (1991); Classic By Design (2000); Come Softly (1977); Gimme Little Sign
(1967); Lord Hear My Prayer (2009); Oogum Boogum (1967); Out of the Woodwork
(1986); Sweet Old School (1995); This Love Is for Real (2001).
Songs:
Movies and television:
A Change Is Gonna Come (1969);
All That Jazz (1975); Another Saturday Night (1973); Baby You Got It (1967);
Bless Your Little Heart (1976); Boogaloosa Louisian' (1970); Come Softly To Me
(1977); Gimme Little Sign (1967); Great Big Bundle of Love (1970); Hide-a-Way
(1963); I Want Love (1966); It Only Make Me Want It More (1975); It's Just a
Game, Love (1968); Let's Get Crazy Together (1978); Lovey Dovey Kinda Lovin'
(1968); Number One (1977); Rainin' Love (You Gotta Feel It) (1975); Sad Little
Song (1971); Some Got It, Some Don't (1968); Sticky Boom Boom (Too Cold)
(1972); Sweet Molly Malone (1966); The Oogum Boogum Song (1967); Whoop It On Me
(1969); You're Beautiful People (1973).
20 to 1 (2008); 4-3-2-1 Hot and
Sweet (1968); Almost Famous (2000); American Bandstand (1967–1977); Aquarius
(2015); Big Little Lies (2019); Colors (1988); Criminal Minds (2015);
CrissCross (1992); Devil's Due (2014); Dogfight (1991); Don't Worry Darling
(2022); Eastbound & Down (2010); England's World Cup Lionesses (2019);
Festival di Sanremo (1969); Funny Woman (2022); GLOW (2018); Hangin' with the
Homeboys (1991); Hard Eight (1996); Home Again (2017); Infinitely Polar Bear
(2014); It's Happening (1968); Joy (2024); Life of Crime (2013); Little Fish
(2020); Lorraine (2016); Love, Simon (2018); Lovelace (2013); Lover of Men: The
Untold History of Abraham Lincoln (2024); Lymelife (2008); Mortal Sins (1989);
Mother and Child (2009); Mr. Write (1994); Mrs. America (2020); Murphy Brown
(1990); My Crazy Life (1993); On My Block (2019); Pat Boone in Hollywood
(1967); Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016); Pie in the Sky (1995); Playboy After Dark
(1969); Poms (2019); Popdown (1969); Reptile (2023); Reversal of Fortune (1990);
Scorpion (2016); Seven Girlfriends (1999); Sex Education (2021); Shopgirl
(2005); Slayground (1983); Small Time (2014); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
(2017); The Gray Man (2022); The Groovy Show (1967); The Joey Bishop Show
(1967); The Last Days of Disco (1998); The Playroom (2012); The Shack (2017);
The Stand (2021); The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
(1989); The Umbrella Academy (2022); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); This Fool
(2022); Tohuwabohu (1998); Top of the Pops (1968); Vibrato (1968); Will &
Harper (2024); Your Mother Should Know (2018).
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