Good in Bed

It all begins in the bedroom: *top,* Tracy Camilla Johns and Tommy Redmond Hicks in Spike Lee’s *She’s Gotta Have It* (1986); *above,* Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s *Breathless* (1960).

Read between the sheets: *top,* Raoul Lévy and Anny Duperey in Jean-Luc Godard’s *Two or Three Things I Know About Her* (1967); *above,* Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut’s *Bed & Board* (1970).

Sleep it off: *top,* Joseph Cotten in Alfred Hitchcock’s *Shadow of a Doubt* (1943); *above,* Audrey Hepburn in Blake Edwards’s *Breakfast at Tiffany’s* (1961).

Golden hour: *top,* Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Forster in John Huston’s *Reflections in a Golden Eye* (1967); *above,* Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton in Guy Hamilton’s *Goldfinger* (1964).

Bed heads: *top,* Madonna in Susan Seidelman’s *Desperately Seeking Susan* (1985); *above,* Marilyn Monroe in Henry Hathaway’s *Niagara* (1953).

Beauty sleep: *top,* Vivien Leigh in Victor Fleming’s *Gone with the Wind* (1939); *above,* Snow White and the seven dwarfs in Disney’s 1937 production.

Call it a day: *top,* Barbara Stanwyck in Anatole Litvak’s *Sorry, Wrong Number* (1948); *above,* Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in Francis Ford Coppola’s *The Godfather* (1972).

Eat, sleep, repeat: *top,* Jean Harlow in George Cukor’s *Dinner at Eight* (1933); *above,* Robert Benchley in Nick Grinde’s *How to Sleep* (1935).

Miles to go before they sleep: *top,* Oskar Werner and Jeanne Moreau in François Truffaut’s *Jules and Jim* (1962); *above:* Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Ian Weighill, Cindy O’Callaghan, and Roy Snart in Robert Stevenson’s *Bedknobs and Broomsticks* (1971).

Bedroom politics: *top,* Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in Tony Scott’s *The Hunger* (1983); *above,* Jean-Louis Trintignant and Milly in Bernardo Bertolucci’s *The Conformist* (1970).

May 30, 2020

Photos: all from Photofest; Island Pictures (She’s Gotta Have It); Rialto Pictures (Two or Three Things I Know About Her); Columbia Pictures (Bed & Board); Universal (Shadow of a Doubt); Paramount Pictures (Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Sorry, Wrong Number; The Godfather; The Conformist); Warner Bros. (Reflections in a Golden Eye); UA (Goldfinger); Orion Pictures Corp. (Desperately Seeking Susan); Twentieth Century Fox (Niagara); Fred Parrish/MGM (Gone with the Wind); Walt Disney (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bedknobs and Broomsticks); Frank Tanner/MGM (Dinner at Eight); MGM (How to Sleep, The Hunger); Les Films du Carrosse (Jules and Jim)