'Talking Pictures': Book Shows Cary Grant, Andy Warhol, Doris Day And More In Their Natural States (PHOTOS)

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The Huffington Post   First Posted: 10/15/11 12:50 PM ET Updated: 12/15/11 05:12 AM ET

With the old glamor revival going on these days, the screen legends seen here could easily fit in the modern world. As the originals, they wear their style with more panache -- Doris Day rocks a bicycle with her luminous smile, Cary Grant is the original Roger Sterling in horn-rimmed glasses, and Omar Sharif sports the 'stache of all 'staches. These seldom-seen shots come from the archives of Ellen Graham, whose work was printed in W, Time, People and Newsweek over the span of 40 years. Graham captures her subjects in semi-candid states, lounging at home in a pool of shoes and sipping a cup of espresso while shirtless (don't we all). More than 200 of them have been collected in a book by Pointed Leaf Press titled "Talking Pictures," a sampling of which you'll find below. Take a click through, and let us know your favorite old-meets-new moment in the comments.

All images from Talking Pictures © 2011 Ellen Graham, Pointed Leaf Press


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Sundance7
05:07 AM on 10/21/2011
Met Candice Bergen on the set of SNL in Oct 75 after the dress rehearsal (she was hosting). I shook her hand and wished her good luck on the live show soon to follow. She thanked me and said she was nervous about doing a live show. She was absolutely the most beautiful and gracious woman I have ever seen in person.
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Sunflo
Leave a mark, not a stain.
03:13 AM on 10/17/2011
Fabulous pictures.
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Kashif Vikaas
10:39 PM on 10/16/2011
These are great Americans and they could never possibly be replaced
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slobone
We have met the enemy and he is us
06:23 PM on 10/16/2011
I wouldn't describe any of them as candid photos, they're obviously posed. Now a picture of Andy without his wig, THAT would be candid.
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gemini68
01:38 PM on 10/17/2011
That's exactly what I thought- they look like staged photos designed to look candid.
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Jced
I'd love to kiss ya...but, I just washed my hair!!
05:50 PM on 10/16/2011
There is nothing like looking at a picture of Doris Day! Makes Ya Smile!!!
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Jaguar man
Every Time I Make A Typo The Errorists Win
05:05 PM on 10/16/2011
About 12 years ago I bought a restaurant that was partly owned by Alan King and he left all kinds of photos behind. Right now on my desk I have a picture of Alan King with Cary Grant, and Robert and Ethel Kennedy. I had no idea how close he was to so many celebrities. I have some amazing shots
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11:09 PM on 10/19/2011
Make a book!
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MISTERUNCONVENTIONAL
The only attitude I've ever had is a bad one.
04:02 PM on 10/16/2011
Doris isn't looking very good in that picture with Cary Grant.

What? Hitchcock???

*NEVERMIND!*
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
03:25 PM on 10/16/2011
Cary Grant looked kinda like Steve Martin in that photo.
makemesmile
it makes you wonder
05:38 PM on 10/19/2011
Steve Martin was never as handsome as Cary Grant. Steve Martin makes silly movies, not comedy movies. Big difference.
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
06:41 PM on 10/19/2011
Steve Martin has never tried to be handsome. His purpose is to be funny, and he always is.
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Just My Thoughts 2011
Life's but a walking shadow
03:08 PM on 10/16/2011
Great photo's. A fun trip down memory lane.

If only we could all stay forever young.....
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JuniorBug
Liberal-vegetarian-secular-Christian-Texan
01:52 PM on 10/16/2011
I look at Alfred Hitchcock and I look at Cary Grant, and Cary Grant's the one who seems old for his decline. I think the lesson is to look 70 at 40, and then just maintain it.
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WSAY
Res ipsa loquitur
02:08 PM on 10/16/2011
Yeah - age is a sin.
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Edward Standley
opinionated jerk
08:56 PM on 10/16/2011
Gettin' old sure beats the alternative. :)
01:28 PM on 10/16/2011
Andy Warhol looks like he could ride that dog like a horse.

And Anthony Hopkins looks a lot like Daniel Craig.
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duhtruth
01:26 PM on 10/16/2011
You can always tell when it is a slow news day!
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WSAY
Res ipsa loquitur
02:09 PM on 10/16/2011
Because here you are.
11:55 AM on 10/16/2011
Amazing photos especially Swanson and her shoes as well as Warhol and Cecil.
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Stan Silver
09:28 AM on 10/16/2011
There are a handful of very good actors out there today.But other than Tom Hanks and Dentzel Washington and maybe a couple others...not great ones.
I will watch any Henry Fonda,James Stewart,Spencer Tracy,Bogart etc over and over.That is art.
Special effects today are pretty amazing but the actors skills definately are not what they were.
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Sundance7
04:51 AM on 10/21/2011
Not true.
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Anne Siperek
09:05 AM on 10/16/2011
Oh Omar.....sigh....
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thinkingwomanmillstone
great, green, globs of greasy grimey GOPerspeak.
09:56 AM on 10/16/2011
I always love to look at Omar but to listen to him was bliss.
01:28 PM on 10/16/2011
At first I thought it was Burt Reynolds. :)
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Anne Siperek
06:11 PM on 10/16/2011
If you thought that was Burt Reynolds, then you never knew Omar like I knew Omar...