The trouble with the ear thing is that if JPB is turning his face toward the camera in the MM shot (to go from full profile to 3/4), his ear would have moved away from the camera. So using the rules of perspective, the MM ear would appear smaller, not bigger.
Here’s a pic where the bottom of their noses are level. In the area I’ve highlighted, you can see the vast difference between the ear placement and size, esp. compared to the nose and eyes. And even the shape of the inside of the ear: the bottom lobe on MM is waaay bigger than on Belmondo. MM’s ear top is still pointier, and the… oy, I don’t know ear parts very well… the opening to the ear canal is much higher on MM than Belmondo.
(I also don’t think the nose is right. JPB has a slight inward slope to his attractive nose. MM is rounder and fuller, and certainly no slope visible. I’m less certain of that because of the quality of the image, but I see JPB’s nose as more refined than MM’s.)
In other news, as a researcher with a conscience I have to be scrupulous to the facts: after looking up the June 1970 that apparently some are pointing at as a reference to the 1969-70 award winners (which I hadn’t heard about until tonight), I see that it is actually NOT from the U.S. Photoplay magazine – the dead giveaway being the spelling of “colour” twice on the cover. It’s from the UK’s Photoplay Film Monthly. Two different magazines, and as far as I can tell, they don’t have the same publishers or awards. The UK magazine lasted at least through the mid- to late-1980s; I see covers including The Accused, for example.
So that cite isn’t valid. Still, we’ve got the NYT, TV Guide and dozens of newspapers to back us up. And the fact that the televised 1971 awards (where Paul Michael Glaser won for Favorite Male TV Star) and the 1978 awards still went by the Annual awards. I hate to be a stckler but “annual” indicates to me that they happened every year, up until 1978, at least. Photoplay was ceased publication in 1980.
I’ve been reading the thread, it’s very confusing, and nothing definitive. The Photoplay awards stopped in 1968 when Rosemary’s Baby won. There’s a number of cites for that. So if the article refers to something else, it’s not clear.
I think when we look at the trailer for Le Manifique especially at .26 mark when he gets out of the pool combs his hair so it’s slicked down, and starts walking, smiling moving his head the resemblence to MM is quite remarkable.
Cover-up? What cover-up? Almost no one seems to have cared at all about the photo itself until recently, let alone the circumstances. You don’t need a cover-up if it’s been forgotten about for 40-some years.
Well, perhaps an authoritative cite but my wife is some kind of savant when it comes to faces; I took the computer in to her and showed her your side by side pictures and asked, “isn’t this the same guy?” Without knowing anything about the ongoing controversy, she took one look and said flatly, “no,” and then mentioned all of your above points, having spotted them almost instantaneously.
So, withdrawing my vote! As in so many other things, the spouse’s judgment overrides.
Umm, just no. The people on the couch are established stars who would wear the styles of the day, which in the US did not include boots with a Tux. Even Glen Campbell could have worn cowboy boots and he didn’t.
Yeeah, it’s likely wrong, but there are similarities nonetheless. Sure closer than some of the other guesses. My sister thinks it’s Sid Caesar. I’m not seeing that, myself.
I disagree. Belmondo had one of the most expressive faces in film. Note how the face, the lips, the nose looks in side profile when he is smiling like MM
I also wanted to point out that smiling can changes the look depending on the person and camera angles . The picture of Belmondo not smiling that Choie posted does not reflect how even the ear looks different in the smiling screenshot.
It’s from the UK’s Photoplay Film Monthly. Two different magazines, and as far as I can tell, they don’t have the same publishers or awards. The UK magazine lasted at least through the mid- to late-1980s; I see covers including The Accused, for example.
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