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).
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)
