You were our patron saint, yet still they blame us for only praying to be famous

[sovay]

Late last night, I discovered this photograph:



It's David Lean in 1943, on the set of This Happy Breed. I found the image unattributed on a site devoted to his movies; I thought it was a film still. I had never seen a picture of him before. He could have been one of his own leads. I wouldn't wish him out of his directing career—for all I know, he was a block in front of the camera—but that's a character actor's face if ever I've seen one. He looks like a very ascetic faun.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That is very cool. I should think that three years of living on wartime rations brought out the cheekbones in everyone who wasn't married to a butcher, but the shape and angle of his knee is equally eloquent. Lean David, indeed.

[sovay]

I should think that three years of living on wartime rations brought out the cheekbones in everyone who wasn't married to a butcher, but the shape and angle of his knee is equally eloquent.

I didn't think he'd ever worked with David Lean, but I wondered at first if I was looking at a very young Peter Cushing. It was the cheekbones.