September 2006
Updates

October 2006 Updates
 

November 2006
Updates

Introducing Clifton Webb in a shot from Sitting Pretty.

Jane telegraphed over some new pictures today:

• Pier Angeli - in Merry Andrew (with Danny Kaye), in Teresa (with John Ericson), and five posed shots

• Lucille Ball - 10 pictures, including one from the play, Wildcat

Thank you, Jane, for these great shots!

Here are a couple of film clips for the road:

• Elvis Presley performing the title number from Jailhouse Rock

• the first five chapters of the 1948 Superman serial, starring Kirk Alyn and spunky Noel Neill:

October 31, 2006

Jailhouse
Rock

Superman
Chapters 1 - 5

Enjoy this new picture of Rosalind Russell in an elegant pose.

Nick and Jane, ever diligent, have prepared some great new photos:

• Cyd Charisse in five publicity shots and stills from The Band Wagon (with Fred Astaire), plus three posed shots

• John Wayne in A Man Betrayed (with Frances Dee), True Grit (with Kim Darby), and Wake of the Red Witch—as well as a posed shot that may be from one of his early films, or just a college football hero shot

Steve completed a new Ginger Rogers desktop wallpaper.

Gunnar sent over some marvelous images:

• Clark Gable (2 pictures)

• Judy Holiday in Adam's Rib

• Fay Wray and Bruce Cabot cowering in King Kong (2 pictures)

Thanks to our guest contributors!

Shall we conclude with some film clips?  Of course!

• Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby just sailing along in High Society

• MGM Shorts titled Hollywood, Style Center of the World (we're not kidding) and The Tell-Tale Heart  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

October 30, 2006

MGM Shorts

We start off with beautiful Jeanne Crain, a popular actress from the 1940's and 50's.

Nick and Jane beamed us several new scans:

• Natalie Wood (5 pictures)

• Several stars of the Ziegfeld Follies, photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston, including:  Louise Brooks,  Rubye De Remer, Marilyn Miller, Mae Murray, Eileen Perry, Blanche Satchell, Marie Stevens, and three unidentified ladies

Mark2 shuttled over a photo of 1940's B-Movie actress Kay Aldridge.

We appreciate these great photos!

Here are a few film clips:

• Anita Louise and Richard Greene in a tender scene from The Little Princess - also look for that cute little tyke, Shirley Temple

• MGM Shorts titled Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round and Sea Spiders  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

October 28, 2006

The Little
Princess

MGM Shorts

Let's start with a photograph of vamp Ida Lupino, probably from the mid-1930's.

Mark's been busy again with several new items:

• Betty Grable and Adele Jergens getting ready to trick-or-treat

• Leila Hyams

• Argentina-born actress Mona Maris

Jane sent in four spiffy pictures each of Lucille Ball and Ziegfeld Follies and vaudeville super-star Bert Williams.  She also wired over five more Rita Hayworth shots, including three from My Gal Sal.

Thanks to our fabulous guest contributors!

We corrected a Madeleine Carroll scan once we discovered it was from Lloyds of London.

Lastly, please enjoy these film clips:

• James Stewart in Destry Rides Again - in the first, he tries to placate Marlene Dietrich and then tells her what he really thinks of her; in the second, everyone has lots of fun in the saloon, with Dietrich belting out "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have"

• MGM Shorts titled Bars and Stripes and The Jonker Diamond (with Pete Smith)  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

October 26, 2006

Destry #1
Taming a wildcat

Destry #2
Saloon antics

MGM Shorts

Here are Van Heflin and Judy Garland in Presenting Lily Mars.

Karl's back in town with:

• The Three Stooges (3 pictures)

• Mae West in Go West Young Man and I'm No Angel (with Cary Grant)

• Film Noir Posters - The Dark Corner, Harper, I The Jury, The Long Wait, My Gun is Quick, and Nocturne

Sylvie sent us some new desktop wallpapers:  Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Jennifer Jones, and Mary Pickford.

Nick and Jane prepared some Ziegfeld Girls scans:  Adrienne Ames (2 pictures) Allyn King, Adele Mason, and Anita Stewart.  Then they reached deep in their satchel to bring us two Rita Hayworth publicity shots from Angels Over Broadway.

Vladimir came to life with images of Lauren Bacall and Natalie Wood.

Jane returns with some miniatures of the great Sarah Bernhardt in the late 1890's stage production of Cleopatra.

Amanda corrected one of our Ginger Rogers pictures.  We had attributed it to The Major and the Minor, but it's from 1940's Kitty Foyle.

Thanks again to all our guest contributors!

We conclude with some film clips:

• Rosalind Russell in No Time for Comedy—here she is in a scene with James Stewart, who's trying to get around New York for the first time (Frank Faylen is the cabbie)

• Vitaphone and Warner Bros. Shorts:  The Happy Hottentots and Trial by Trigger

October 24, 2006

We begin with five stills of 1930's funnymen Wheeler and Woolsey.  Four of them are courtesy of Justin, and represent their films Dixiana and So This is Africa (3 photos and two film clips).  We added our own picture (scanned from an original 1934 photo) of  Bert Wheeler with Dorothy Lee in Cockeyed Cavaliers.  Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are relatively forgotten comedians from the early 1930's; we hope to showcase their career with these images and clips.

Jane sent us six nice shots of Ginger Rogers and one of Elvis Presley.

Nick joined Jane in preparing two John Wayne scans:  The Quiet Man (with Maureen O'Hara) and Pittsburgh (with Randolph Scott).

Thanks to our guest contributors for these great shots!

Let's end with a few film clips:

• Fatty Arbuckle shorts:  The Knockout, Leading Lizzie Astray, Love, Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day, and Wished on Mabel

• James Stewart in Ziegfeld Girl

October 21, 2006

Romance in
the Jungle

I'm Marrying
Who?

Introducing Tyrone Power, Jr.—the first of two pictures.

Mark2 sent us nice photos of Alma Carroll, Virginia Dale, Ellen Drew, and Virginia Mayo.  He also threw in a photo of cute Marjorie White (with Richard Keene) from the 1930 musical Happy Days.

Jane and Nick sent us a Ziegfeld Girls picture that features Susan Fleming and Paulette Goddard.

We also have some solo shots by Jane:

• Sophia Loren (3 pictures, including A Breath of Scandal, El Cid, and a posed shot)

• Natalie Wood (6 pictures)

Gunnar sent us an shot of Myrna Loy in Shadow of the Thin Man.

We thank our guest contributors for all these fine images!

We also hope you enjoy these film clips:

• Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe in Monkey Business (1952)

• John Wayne in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (2 clips)

• a Vitaphone Short:  Woody Herman and His Orchestra

October 19, 2006