In 1963 photographer Bert Stern photographed some of the top actors/actresses at the height of their fame playing their dream roles for a photo series in LIFE magazine's December 20, 1963 issue.
Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin's Tramp / Audrey Hepburn as Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline' / Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood as Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in 'The Sheik' / Paul Newman as a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler / Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin as Judah Ben-Hur and Messala from 'Ben-Hur' / Bing Crosby & Bob Hope as 1930s gangsters / Jack Lemmon as a war pilot / Shirley MacLaine as one of Busby Berkeley's showgirls / Rock Hudson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
CHARACTER-DEPENDENT COSTUMES
These costumes are the same no matter who plays the character (save for a few small details)
- Ponyboy Curtis
- Johnny Cade
- Dallas Winston
- Darrel Curtis
- Sodapop Curtis
- Cherry Valance
- Bob Sheldon
- Paul Holden
GREASERS
- Daryl Tofa as Two-Bit
- Renni Anthony Magee as Steve/Two-Bit
- Tilly Evans-Krueger as Ace
- Milena J. Comeau as Ace
- Anna K. Bermudez as Ace
- Jordan Chin as Steve/Two-Bit
- Henry Juliàn Gendron as Steve/Two-Bit
- Ryo Kamibayashi as Steve
- Andre T. Malcolm as Steve
SOC BOYS
- RJ Higton as Chet
- Barton Cowperthwaite as Brill
- Sean Harrison Jones as Trip
- Henry Juliàn Gendron
- Victor Carrillo Tracey
- Melody Rose as "Melvin"
- SarahGrace Mariani as "Sergei"
- Ryo Kamibayashi (yet to formally debut)
- Kevin Csolak as Trip (last performance 8/25/24)
SOC GIRLS
- SarahGrace Mariani as Marcia
- Melody Rose as Bev/Marcia
- Maggie Kuntz as Marcia/Bev
- Milena J. Comeau as Marcia/Bev
- Anna K. Bermudez as Bev (yet to debut)
Having thoughts about how, no matter how loud Pony and Darry get during their arguments, how much vitriol and hate is fueled into their insults and yelling, it doesn’t change the fact that Darry physically cannot go to sleep whenever Pony is out late and he doesn’t know where, too terrified of the thought that his brother is bleeding out in the dirt and he can’t do anything to help him.
And it doesn’t change the fact that Pony’s worst nightmares, the ones that leave him crying so hard he’s choking on gasps and Soda can only barely calm him down from, are the ones that put Darry in the car with their parents.
The way Ponyboy goes from “all the girls are pretty [in the West Side]/and all the guys are mean” in the opening number to partially dedicating his narrative to Bob ("for the hopeless boy with the reckless grin") because he's matured and now understands how Bob is also a victim of the system and was let down by the people around him....... Man.
I can only image what would have happened if Victor or his parents caught the other kids trying to sneak into their house😂 I imagine the other children would try to come up with an excuse to tell them but everyone would have different answers and it would just be a chaotic unbelievable mess lol
I just know Darry has a secret college fund set up for Ponyboy stored in a cookie jar. Sodapop probably has one too, hell he probably had one made for Pony even before their parents death because he saw how much it hurt Darry to not go to college and he never want Ponyboy to feel the same. Maybe Two-Bit would help get Ponyboy his first part time job at the movie theater by sweet talking with the manager, basically hyping Ponyboy up. Steve would enlist Ponyboy in helping him work on a piece of junk car and Pony is just confused because he thinks Steve hates him but joins in anyway and they ended up fixing it. Turns out the car they were working on was going to be Ponyboy’s and Pony is just “hmm perhaps Steve does like me”.
But in reality Ponyboy is just stunned near tears as he realized the lengths the gang would go for him