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Here is veteran character actor Chill Wills in a quiet moment, photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull.  We scanned an original 1943 MGM photo.

Nick and Jane handed over a few goodies:

• Ziegfeld Girls - Jean Ackerman (2), Mary Lange, Jacqueline Logan, Kathryn Perry, and Jessie Reed

• Francis X. Bushman and May McAvoy in Ben Hur:  A Tale of the Christ (1925)

• Marion Davies - 4 pictures from The Patsy (1928) with director King Vidor

• Paulette Goddard - 4 pictures, including one from The Young at Heart (1938) with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

• Audrey Hepburn - 8 pictures from How to Steal a Million (1966), featuring Peter O'Toole and Hugh Griffith

John identified the movie associated with his March 12th scan of  Paulette Goddard:  it's from The Torch (1950).

Rikke sent in seven new photos of Hedy Lamarr, including one from The Strange Woman (1946) with George Sanders, and one from Samson and Delilah (1949)--thanks to Bob for identifying this one.

Let's end with some film clips:

• Charlton Heston and Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments (1956), courtesy of Sever

• Veronica Lake giving an explosive performance in So Proudly We Hail (1943)

• MGM Shorts:  Mr. Blabbermouth (1942), Of Pups and Puzzles (1941), and Once Over Lightly (1938)  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

March 31, 2007

Enjoy this scan of three scamps from The Champ (1931):  Jackie Cooper, Marcia Mae Jones, and Jesse Scott.

Paula sent us a picture of outdoorsman Don Ameche.

Onward and upward with Nick and Jane:

• Ziegfeld Girls by photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston:  Beth Beri, Helene Costello, Hazel Forbes, Gilda Gray, and Patricia Parsons

• Buster Keaton - 3 pictures, including two from Go West (1925) and one posed shot

• Harold Lloyd - 4 pictures from Girl Shy (1924) with Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Nola Dolberg, Judy King, and Hughie Mack, plus three spiffy, action-packed film clips

• Gloria Swanson - 4 pictures

• Norma Talmadge - 3 pictures

• Vivien Leigh - 3 pictures from Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

March 27, 2007

We start with a pretty scan of Paulette Goddard and Michael Wilding from An Ideal Husband (1947).  It's the first of six in this series, courtesy of John.

Here are 9 more Bette Davis pictures, including one from The Little Foxes (1941), from Rikke.

Next, we have some offerings by Jane:

• W.C. Fields lounging in It's a Gift (1934)

• Thelma Todd in two 1933 flicks:  Backs to Nature (with Patsy Kelly) and The Devil's Brother (Fra Diavolo), with Dennis King

Gunnar motored over with six new Ava Gardner shots.

Nick and Jane partnered on some interesting new scans:

• Ziegfeld Girls by photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston:  Eva Brady, Dorothy Dickson (2), Drucilla Strain, Ellinore Taylor, and Dorothy Wegman and one of Johnston too

• Clara Bow - 4 pictures

• Marion Davies - 5 pictures from The Florodora Girl (1930), featuring co-stars Ilka Chase, Vivian Oakland, and Lawrence Gray, and three film clips

• Paulette Goddard - 4 pictures

March 26, 2007

Here's Buster Keaton in The Cameraman (1928).  We also have a film clip, which includes the famous sequence where he peers over his camera at beauteous Marceline Day.

More interesting stills from Nick and Jane:

• Mae Murray - 3 pictures, including two from Peacock Alley (1922) and one posed shot

• Pola Negri - 4 pictures, including two from the set of "The Woman From Moscow" (1928)

• Marian Nixon - 5 pictures of the Myrna Loy look-alike, including a shot from Rolling Home (1926) with Reginald Denny and one from Young Nowheres (1929) with Richard Barthelmess

• Gloria Swanson - 3 pictures, including one from Tonight or Never (1931) and two posed shots - we also have a film clip

• Marion Davies - 4 pictures from Show People (1928), featuring William Haines, Charlie Chaplin, King Vidor, and Polly Moran - we also have a film clip

• Norma Talmadge - 3 pictures from The Lady (1925)

March 23, 2007

Pete starts us off with a nice shot of Henry Fonda.

We also have a picture of Gregory Peck, sent in by Fred.

Nick and Jane continue to amaze with:

• Clara Bow - 3 pictures, including two from Call Her Savage (1932) and one posed shot

• Marion Davies - 4 photos, including three from Quality Street (1927) with Conrad Nagel, and one posed shot

• Pauline Frederick - 4 pictures

• Paulette Goddard - 8 pictures from Modern Times (1936), including two with Charlie Chaplin, by photographer Max Munn Autrey

• Buster Keaton - 5 pictures, including three from The Cameraman (1928)

• Harold Lloyd - 6 pictures from Safety Last (1923)

Thanks to our intrepid guest contributors!

We'll end with a few film clips:

• Jean Arthur and James Stewart in You Can't Take it With You (1938) - nearly all of the great ensemble cast appears in this energetic clip:  Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Donald Meek, Spring Byington, Ann Miller, Dub Taylor, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

• Buster Keaton in a short clip from Sherlock, Jr. (1924)—thanks to Sever for his help

• Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea bumming it in the classic Sullivan's Travels (1942)

• MGM Shorts:  A Gun in His Hand (1945), How to Sleep (1935), and It's in the Stars (1938)  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

March 22, 2007

Jane starts us off with a still of Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, and Jack Buchanan as triplets creating a ruckus in The Band Wagon (1953).  We also have a film clip of this famous sequence (the sound is a little out of synch—sorry).

We have several new and continuing series from Nick and Jane:

• Clara Bow - 3 pictures, including two from Her Wedding Night (1930) and one posed shot

• Marion Davies - 3 pictures from The Red Mill (1927)

• Pauline Frederick - 4 pictures, including three from Married Flirts (1924) with Mae Busch

• Lillian Gish - 3 pictures, including One Romantic Night (1930), The Wind (1928), and one posed shot

• Harold Lloyd - 4 pictures from Why Worry? (1923), including one with frequent co-star Jobyna Ralston

• Buster Keaton - 5 pictures, including one from his very clever film, Neighbors (1920), with a film clip

• Mae Murray - 2 pictures, including one from The Masked Bride (1925)

• Gloria Swanson - 3 pictures by photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull from 1934

John sent in a beautiful—but significantly impaired—still from Devotion, featuring Olivia de Havilland, Nancy Coleman, and Ida Lupino.  It took some doctoring, but we got it fixed!  Doctor Nick started off by fixing the major damage, then Doctor Macro did the fine tuning afterward to return it to its original glory.  Check out the uncleaned version on Ida Lupino's page, to see what we were dealing with.

Rikke sauntered on by with a passel of Bette Davis pictures.

Thanks once again to our guest contributors!

Enjoy these film clips:

• Jean Arthur lays down the law to Charles Coburn and Joel McCrea after they read her diary, in a scene from The More the Merrier (1943)

• Fred Astaire performing a romantic dance with Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (1953)

March 19, 2007

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