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Film Gallery: Angela Allen's Life in the Movies

Historic images from behind the scenes of classic films

by Jasper ReesSaturday, 5 March 2011

'He was a gentleman': Angela Allen with Clark Gable on the set of 'The Misfits'

Eve Arnold

“I’ve never been intimidated by them. I don't suffer from thinking, that person is a star. They’ve got their job. I’ve got mine. If they’re pleasant so much the better.” Angela Allen’s lifetime in film has found her working closely with some of the most iconic figures in 20th-century entertainment, from matinee idols to gnarled silverscreen pros. Of the 75 pictures on which she was script supervisor, this selection of photographs from her personal album gives some sense of her long and distinguished contribution to cinema, including the occasional bit of body double work when no other appropriate female was around.

With James Mason and Roy Kellino on Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
At a typewriter on Moby Dick (1956)
Doubling Deborah Kerr on Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957)
With John Wayne and John Huston on The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
With William Holden on The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
On the set of Carol Reed's The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
On the set of Peter Hall's Three Into Two Won't Go (1969)
With Ken Russell on Women in Love (1969)
With Sean Connery and Michael Caine on The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

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