February 2008
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Today we start with a picture of that irrepressible impresario of the stride piano, Thomas "Fats" Waller, in a classic pose from Stormy Weather (1943) - thanks to Sever for the ID.  We also have some of his musical numbers.

Richard continues his streak with more gorgeous—but, ultimately, tragic—actresses from the 1940's:

• Carole Landis

• Marie McDonald in Living in a Big Way (1947)

• Helen Walker in Impact (1949)

The onslaught of great photos from Gary continues:

• Mary Astor in Upper World (1934) with Warren William

• James Cagney - 4 pictures from Ceiling Zero (1936), with Pat O'Brien and June Travis

• Lili Damita in The Cock-Eyed World (1929), with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe

• Greta Garbo - 2 pictures from As You Desire Me (1932) and Torrent (1926)

• Jean Harlow - 4 pictures from Suzy (1936), featuring Franchot Tone and Cary Grant, including a perky film clip of a horse race scene

• Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe in The Cock-Eyed World (1929)

• a Franchot Tone extravaganza:

• Man-Proof (1938) - 2 pictures, including one with Myrna Loy

• Midnight Mary (1933) - 3 pictures with spectacular Loretta Young, hoarse Andy Devine, and peevish Martha Sleeper, as well as three spiffy film clips—these are for Marsha

• Moulin Rouge (1934), with Tullio Carminati

• Sadie McKee (1934) - 4 pictures, featuring Joan Crawford, Edward Arnold, Leo G. Carroll, and Akim Tamiroff

• The Stranger's Return (1933), with Lionel Barrymore and Miriam Hopkins

• Suzy (1936), with Benita Hume and Reginald Mason

• The World Moves On (1934) - 2 pictures with Madeleine Carroll

Thanks to our guest contributors once again for these beautiful images!

Next, some flickers:

• Bitter Victory (1958) - Richard Burton callously finishes off an injured German soldier in the desert and then carries a beefy, injured British soldier (Raoul Delfosse) through the blazing sand dunes, until he meets up with Raymond Pellegrin who informs him the soldier he's carrying is dead—thanks to Sever for this dramatic clip

• The Bride Wore Red (1937) - Franchot Tone is out and about in the mountains delivering a letter, when he runs into heartthrob hiker Joan Crawford—when they stop at his cabin, notice her shoes: who clambers up mountains in those things?

• The Dark Corner (1946) - Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens are on an intriguing mission

• The File on Thelma Jordan (1950) - Tipsy civil servant Wendell Corey makes several passes at customer Barbara Stanwyck, and he doesn't realize she's married to a mobster

• Love With the Proper Stranger (1963) - Natalie Wood surprises Steve McQueen at a union hiring hall with an unexpected announcement

• The Scarlet Empress (1934) - stunning Marlene Dietrich dresses up, learns her mother has been sent away by the Russian Empress, interrupts the royal conference to complain, and then receives a royal dressing down from...who else?...Louise Dresser!—thanks to Sever for this great clip, which also features some remarkable sets in the royal council room

March 31, 2008

We have a set of two photos from John Barrymore's silent classic Beau Brummel (1924), and a third one for The Annex from Chris.  Sever prepared four pleasing film clips for this film, which also feature Mary Astor.

Rikke sends best wishes with several new scans:

• Dolores Costello - 4 pictures of the beautiful silent film star

• James Dean - 9 pictures from East of Eden (1955), with four new film clips prepared by Sever—in this pre-WWI period drama, his curious 1950's preppy attire looks like he's ready to saunter over to the campus malt shop and then catch a double feature

• Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone sitting on the beach

• Boris Karloff - four pictures from The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), and one from The Raven (1935) with Bela Lugosi

• Franchot Tone - 2 pictures from:

• Dangerous (1935), with Bette Davis

• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), with Gary Cooper and Richard Cromwell

Richard has some actors this time:

• Bela Lugosi shown onstage as Count Dracula

• Sig Ruman, perennial foil of the Marx Brothers

• Anton Walbrook and Beatrix Lehmann in The Rat (1937)

Here's more good stuff from that scanner extraordinaire...Nick:

• Jane Hale

• Madame Vannessi

• Mademoiselle Suzette

• Jane Russell - 2 pictures, including one from The Paleface (1948)

• Anna May Wong - 7 pictures, including one from Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

Gary sent over several new photos of interest:

• W.C. Fields - 7 pictures, including It's a Gift (1934), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), and five posed shots

• Charles Laughton - 2 pictures from The Big Clock (1948), including one with Ray Milland

Check out Carrie's new site:  Remembering Frances Dee.  Here you'll find information about the lovely actress, including an interview with one of her sons.

Corrections/attributions for existing photos:

• Bob spotted a Betty Hutton picture from The Fleet's In (1942)

• Ricardo's on the job, as he identifies a Bing Crosby image from Anything Goes (1956)

• Sarah found two Bob Hope pictures from Some Like it Hot (1939) and Thanks for the Memory (1938), both with Shirley Ross

Thanks to our guest contributors for their scans and helpful input!

Here are some film clips:

• Barbarella (1968) - futuristic hottie Jane Fonda does a quick-change into her plastic spacesuit, sets course for acceleration into temporal space, and then finds a comfy bed in which to nap for, oh...154 hours!

• Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) - we have four clips of the eternal desert love story, featuring Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, and Flora Robson (in what can only be described as turbid makeup)

• The Cobweb (1955) - this meandering clip features Lauren Bacall and Richard Widmark engaging in some aimless dialog that seems to have no purpose other than to set the stage for their future romantic involvement—the best part was the snippet of Brahms piano music at the tail-end

• Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) - Betsy Drake has matrimony on her mind, but Cary Grant continues to demur—listen for "Somewhere Beyond the Sea" playing in the background, more than a decade before the famous version by Bobby Darin

• Our Dancing Daughters (1928) - Joan Crawford, Dorothy Sebastian, and Anita Page are party girls in this silent (with music soundtrack) Jazz Age melodrama—also enjoy Johnny Mack Brown, who looks a little bewildered by it all

• Rancho Notorious (1952) - Marlene Dietrich wins an unusual saloon horse race, in this flashback sequence which also features Arthur Kennedy

March 26, 2008

Here are three tantalizing close-ups from Richard:

• Gwili Andre

• Camilla Horn

• Sari Maritza

Vladimir has a scan of Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell in The Seven Year Itch (1955), as well as a super-sized color photo of Elizabeth Taylor.

Gunnar was itching to see another Marilyn photo online, so here she is again, in a publicity shot from the film.

Roma sent in a nice scan of Judy Garland in Presenting Lily Mars (1943).

Chris has images from David Copperfield (1935), featuring W.C. Fields, Madge Evans, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, and Jean Cadell.

Gary continues his hot streak with many new offerings today:

• Humphrey Bogart - 5 pictures from The Big Sleep (1946), featuring Lauren Bacall and Martha Vickers

• W.C. Fields - 2 pictures:

• David Copperfield (1935), with Freddie Bartholomew—we also have a film clip

• The Barber Shop (1933), with Fay Holderness and Gloria Velarde

• Charlotte Henry in Alice in Wonderland (1933), with William Austin as the Gryphon and Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle

• Marilyn Monroe on the set of (yup!) The Seven Year Itch, while filming one of the most famous scenes in movie history

• Anita Page in:

• The Broadway Melody (1929), with Bessie Love

• The Easiest Way (1931), with Clark Gable

• Reducing (1931), with Marie Dressler

• Sidewalks of New York (1931), with Buster Keaton

• While the City Sleeps (1928), with Lon Chaney, Sr.

• a posed shot

• Bob Steele and Lon Chaney, Jr. scuffling in Of Mice and Men (1940)

Thanks to our guest contributors for these great pictures!

Let's end with some Super-8 clips:

• The Animal Kingdom (1932) - On a stormy night, Myrna Loy and Ilka Chase chat by the fire, and Leslie Howard joins them—enjoy the barely restrained contempt he and Ilka have for each other in this scene!

• The Body Snatcher (1945) - When Bela Lugosi confronts body snatching meanie Boris Karloff with his dirty little secret, Karloff lulls him into an alcoholic stupor, sings a creepy little ditty, and then demonstrates his technique

• The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) - Sophia Loren agrees to a loveless marriage to the King of Armenia at the behest of her father (Alec Guinness), but only after squirming a bit—look for smarmy Omar Sharif early in the scene

• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys (1959) - soapy Joan Collins' bath time is interrupted by a phone call

• Rosalie (1937) - We have a big splashy musical number featuring a bevy of Chorus Girls, with Eleanor Powell in an extended dance sequence

• Touch of Evil (1958) - Sever upgraded our existing clip, which features Charlton Heston and Orson Welles

March 19, 2008

Three more international beauties arrived via tramp steamer today from Richard:

• Sari Maritza in Evenings for Sale (1932)

• Lilli Palmer

• Dorothea Wieck

Frances sent us 8 pictures of Buster Keaton, including one from Cops (1922).  We've also added several of his full-length shorts.

Nick dug down deep to find some unique photos of Chorus Girls, those unsung dancers behind the musical stars.  Enjoy this set of 14 photos, which represents Footlight Parade (1933), Moonlight and Pretzels (1933), and Rosalie (1937).

Rikke ambled by with a panoply of picturesque pfabulous stuff:

• Bette Davis - 3 pictures, including one from The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

• Marlene Dietrich - 8 pictures, including The Devil is a Woman (1935), Rancho Notorious (1952), The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Song of Songs (1933)

• Boris Karloff in The Man With Nine Lives (1940)

Gary has three new scans for us today:

• Cary Grant in Big Brown Eyes (1936) with Joan Bennett, and The Woman Accused (1933) with Nancy Carroll

• Orson Welles

Kudos once again to our guest contributors!

We end with some film clips:

• The Facts of Life (1960) - Bob Hope and Lucille Ball plan a romantic tryst, but are caught in a downpour upon arrival at a remote (and leaky) cabin in the forest—fraying their nerves and giving them second thoughts about each other

• My Little Chickadee (1940) - W.C. Fields creates havoc on a train ride, but ends up married to money-hungry Mae West—also enjoy spinster Margaret Hamilton as she puts up with Fields' shenanigans

• The Return of the Whistler (1948) - Lénore Aubert wants to return to France, to escape America and her past, but Michael Duane puts a marriage move on her, hoping she'll reconsider

• Tarzan and His Mate (1934) - the jungle love story continues, with several romantic interludes featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, as they contend with rogue ivory hunters led by Neil Hamilton

• Wings (1927) - WWI nurse Clara Bow searches Paris for ace flyer Charles "Buddy" Rogers to tell him to report to his unit, and finally locates his tipsiness in the Folies Bergère, where he's otherwise occupied with a local dish—also look for Roscoe Karnes at the same table—this film won the first Oscar for Best Film

• The Wolf Man (1941) - Lon Chaney, Jr. thinks his bad case of lycanthropy has finally subsided...but then discovers he's still in need of a good depilatory, so he naturally winds up in a foggy cemetery late that night and encounters a gravedigger plying his trade—thanks to Sever for this great clip!

March 16, 2008

Let's start off with a three more Our Gang photos.  These shots feature Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jean Darling, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Job Cobb, and...everybody's favorite canine, Pete the pup!

Richard has three Spanish-themed photos today:

• Mona Maris in The Arizona Kid (1930), with Warner Baxter

• Conchita Montenegro in The Cisco Kid (1931), with Edmund Lowe

• Rosita Moreno in Yo, tú y ella (1933)—no, it's not Dolores Del Rio

Nick sent over a wallaby with deliver several new photos:

• Amanda Blake - 2 pictures, including one from the set of Gunsmoke

• Nancy Carroll - 2 pictures from The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) and The Water Hole (1928)

• Betty Compson - 3 pictures, including The Belle of Broadway (1926), The Great Gabbo (1929), and a posed shot

• Corinne Griffith - 3 pictures from Into Her Kingdom (1926), The Lady in Ermine (1927), and Syncopating Sue (1926)

• Elfish Clarence "Major Mite" Howerton - 2 pictures

• Rita Johnson in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Gary steps up to the plate again with several new offerings:

• Cary Grant - 3 pictures:

• Born to Be Bad (1934), with Loretta Young and Etienne Girardot

• Enter Madame (1935), with Elissa Landi

• Every Girl Should Be Married (1948), with Betsy Drake (thanks for the ID, Poncha!)

• Audrey Hepburn - 2 pictures from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), including one with George Peppard

• Elsa Lanchester - in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), with Colin Clive

• Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford in The Bride Wore Red (1937)

Chris was so inspired by Gary's photo from The Bride Wore Red, that she sent in another shot of Joan Crawford from that film.

Gunnar sent in shots of Ralph Bellamy in Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940), and a posed shot of Natalie Wood.

Be sure to visit Carrie's new blog:  Classic Ramblings.  Here you'll find reviews, recollections, and insights about classic films and their stars.

Corrections/attributions for existing pictures:

• Derek identified a Sophia Loren picture from Houseboat (1958)

• Glenn spotted some pictures in our Boris Karloff galleries from Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and The Haunted Strangler (1958).

Thanks to all our guest contributors!

Enjoy these film clips:

• Dinner at Eight (1933) - Billie Burke phones John Barrymore to invite him to her dinner party, unaware that he's seeing her daughter (Madge Evans), who is present with him when he takes the call—this lively clip was prepared by Sever

• I'm No Angel (1933) - Mae West barely rids herself of slippery Ralf Harolde (who's just been sprung from da joint), when Cary Grant comes a-calling (on behalf of Kent Taylor), and they engage in some sexy badinage

• Imitation of Life (1959) - We have two clips featuring John Gavin, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Sandra Dee in this compelling film about love, jealousy, and acceptance

• Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Marlon Brando and the crew overthrow the Captain (Trevor Howard) and take command of the ship

• Ninotchka (1939) - Sever upgraded all four of our existing clips, featuring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in this famous film

• The Talk of the Town (1942) - Jean Arthur, hiding fugitive Cary Grant in the attic, is accused of snoring by visiting professor Ronald Colman, and then is interrupted by a houseful of visitors, including Lloyd Bridges, Edgar Buchanan, and Emma Dunn

• When Ladies Meet (1933) - Jealous Myrna Loy grills Robert Montgomery about his relationship with Ann Harding, while Alice Brady and Martin Burton look on.

March 11, 2008

We continue our series of Our Gang photos.  This time, it's two shots of Farina (Allen Hoskins), cast as one of the earliest of the Little Rascals.  He was with the team from 1922 to mid-1931.

Ivan beamed over two Marx Brothers photos from Go West (1940).  We also added two new film clips to commemorate the occasion:  Groucho ingratiating himself with an Indian maiden, and Harpo wowing the tribe with his...harpistry!

Gunnar continues his march with more high quality images:

• Humphrey Bogart

• Claudia Cardinale - 2 pictures, including one from The Leopard (1963)

• Katharine Hepburn - 2 pictures from Bringing Up Baby (1938)

• Boris Karloff

• Carole Lombard - 4 pictures

Sever came up with three new photos:

• Montgomery Clift - 2 pictures from A Place in the Sun (1951) and From Here to Eternity (1953) with Donna Reed and Kristine Miller

• John Gielgud

Carrie prepared a nice desktop wallpaper of Ginger Rogers.

Next, we have a panoply of great pictures from Gary:

• Eddie Albert in 7 Women (1966), with Anne Bancroft and Margaret Leighton

• Milton Berle

• Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (1935)

• Gritty Kirk Douglas - 2 pictures from Ace in the Hole (1951)

• Cary Grant in Alice in Wonderland (1933)

• The Marx Brothers - 3 pictures, including Go West (1940), Horse Feathers (1932) with Thelma Todd, and a posed shot with fighter Archie Moore

• Franchot Tone - 6 pictures from Between Two Women (1937), featuring Virginia Bruce, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Charley Grapewin

Here's Richard once again, with more stunning photos:

• Cornell Borchers and Rock Hudson in Never Say Goodbye (1956)

• Corinne Calvet and Cameron Mitchell in Powder River (1953)

• Florence Marly in Sealed Verdict (1948)

Corrections/attributions for existing pictures:

• Doing double duty, Carrie identified a Jane Wyman photo from Let's Do It Again (1953)

• Mario found a photo of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi from The Black Cat (1934)

• Ray corrected our three photos of Wendell Corey and Barbara Stanwyck as being from The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)

• Sarah spotted a Rita Hayworth picture from The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

The nickelodeon is open:

• The Appaloosa (1966) - All eyes are on Marlon Brando as he rides into a sleepy little town and has a tense tête-à-tête with the local welcoming committee—if you ever wondered about Al Pacino's inspiration for his Scarface character's accent, look no further!

• The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) - mad scientist Boris Karloff, assisted by Peter Lorre, descends on a loopy powder puff salesman (Slapsie Maxie Rosenblum), intending to turn him into a superman, in this quirky comedy—Larry Parks and Miss Jeff Donnell appear near the end of the clip

• Go West Young Man (1936) - Mae West's press agent (Warren William) visits her in her dressing room after one of her performances.

• Little Caesar (1931) - Sever upgraded our clip of Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone on the lam from the coppers—nervous Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Glenda Farrell look on with trepidation

• Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) - Elvis Presley is a hustling, bustling cheesecake photographer (not the food!) who tries to be in two places at once—watch for Don Porter

• No Man of Her Own (1932) - Carole Lombard steals away to a remote cabin in the woods, only to be interrupted by amorous Clark Gable, and she promptly remembers just why she's so attracted to the big lug

• The Rainmaker (1956) - Katherine Hepburn wants to find someone to share her life with, and pours out her dreams to brothers Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman, while pappy Cameron Prud'Homme looks on

• Tarzan Escapes (1936) - enjoy the original Jungle Cruise ride in these six clips, as Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan foil a ruse by her relatives to have her return to England—look for brother/sister team Benita Hume and William Henry, meek (and doomed) Herbert Mundin, dastardly John Buckler (hiss!), and that simian sensation, Cheeta!

March 5, 2008

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