But this never-published photo, in which Coward gleefully hoists a cocktail in a sort of “cheers” to LIFE’s Loomis Dean, is perhaps more illustrative of the true spirit behind the scenes of the shoot. Coward had initially balked at going out into the desert — “Dear boy, I don’t get up until four o’clock in the afternoon,” he’d complained to Dean — but the photographer convinced him to play along by sending over an air conditioned limo … with lots of ice and liquor. “Splendid! What an idea!” a suddenly jolly Coward responded. “If only we had a piano!”

But this never-published photo, in which Coward gleefully hoists a cocktail in a sort of “cheers” to LIFE’s Loomis Dean, is perhaps more illustrative of the true spirit behind the scenes of the shoot. Coward had initially balked at going out into the desert — “Dear boy, I don’t get up until four o’clock in the afternoon,” he’d complained to Dean — but the photographer convinced him to play along by sending over an air conditioned limo … with lots of ice and liquor. “Splendid! What an idea!” a suddenly jolly Coward responded. “If only we had a piano!”

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