August 2007
Updates

October 2007
Updates

We'll be doing some major maintenance over the next couple of days, in order to speed things up on the site.  The multimedia items (film clips, songs, radio programs) especially may be down for several days.

Thanks for your patience!

Our next update will be on Thursday October 4, 2007.

September 27, 2007

Lots of goodies today.  We start with four pictures of 1950's bombshell Sheree North...ah, the girl next door!

Sever serves up a new Charlie Chaplin photo from City Lights (1931), complete with film clip.

Next, F.L. has some new scans:

• Janet Leigh

• Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

• Barbara Stanwyck - 2 pictures poolside

• Inger Stevens and Walter Matthau in A Guide for the Married Man (1967)

• Natalie Wood - 2 pictures from Gypsy (1962) and Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

We have more international ladies from Richard too:

• Tala Birell in Nagana (1933)

• Isa Miranda in Hotel Imperial (1939)

• Dorothea Wieck in Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen (1934), shown holding W.C. Fields' nemesis:  Baby LeRoy

Frances telexed over some nice images:

• Lou Costello and Bela Lugosi in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

• Bing Crosby - 7 pictures

• Bela Lugosi - 2 pictures

• Basil Rathbone - 16 pictures, including The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), Anna Karenina (1935), Confession (1937), The Garden of Allah (1936), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929), Love From a Stranger (1937), Romeo and Juliet (1936)—thanks, Sarah—plus 4 posed shots

When we resuscitated Nick, his first words were, "Here, take these new scans to the Doctor:"

• Nancy Carroll

• Dolores Del Rio

• Peggy Dow

• Rochelle Hudson in Are These Our Children (1931)

• Mayo Methot

Corrections/attributions by Sarah, for existing photos:

• Linda Darnell in Hangover Square (1945)

• James Dean - 4 pictures from East of Eden (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

• Tyrone Power, Jr. - 2 pictures from Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) and Crash Dive (1943)

• Elizabeth Taylor - 6 pictures from Ash Wednesday (1973), Giant (1956), Rhapsody (1954), There's One Born Every Minute (1942), and The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

Thanks once again to our fine guest contributors for these great pictures and corrections!

Here are a few film clips:

• The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), starring James Stewart

• Sever has once again prepared some new and upgraded clips:

• 42nd Street (1933)- 2 new musical clips, featuring Bebe Daniels and Ruby Keeler

• The Gold Rush (1925) - 2 new clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, and an upgraded clip

• Jezebel (1938) - an upgraded clip featuring Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, and George Brent

• The Third Man (1950) - 2 exciting new clips and an upgraded clip, featuring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten

September 23, 2007

Richard starts us off with some international actors:

• Ricardo Cortez and Gail Patrick in Her Husband Lies (1937)

• Jean Hersholt and Lois Moran in Transatlantic (1931)

• Paul Hubschmid in Bagdad (1949), appearing as Paul Christian

• Emil Jannings in Street of Sin (1928), with John Gough and Johnnie Morris

• Eric von Stroheim in Fugitive Road (1934), with Wera Engels and Leslie Fenton

Sylvie prepared desktop wallpapers featuring Brigitte Bardot, Marlene Dietrich, Veronica Lake, and Mae West.

John sent in five delicious scans of Paulette Goddard, including one with hubby Charlie Chaplin.

Rikke joins the fray with some new photos:

• Bette Davis - 2 pictures, including one from Fashions of 1934 (thank you, Sarah, for identifying it!)

• James Dean - 2 pictures, including one with Natalie Wood and Corey Allen on the set of Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - thanks again, Sarah

• Kirk Douglas with Lola Albright in Champion (1949) - thanks to Sarah and Hans for help in identifying the film and Ms. Albright

• Boris Karloff in:

• The House of Rothschild (1934), with George Arliss

• The Lost Patrol (1934)

• The Raven (1935), with Irene Ware

• Janet Leigh - 6 pictures, including one from Houdini (1953) with Tony Curtis

• Bela Lugosi - 2 pictures from Dracula (1931)—with Helen Chandler and Frances Dade—and two posed shots

Corrections/attributions of existing photos:

• Jane identified some of our Ziegfeld Girls, including Lora Foster, Agnes Franey, Dorothy Knapp, Mary Lange, and Helen Morgan

• John discovered one of our Paulette Goddard pictures is from Kitty (1945)—thanks to Sarah for confirming it

• Sarah found several items:

• Claudette Colbert in Midnight (1939)

• Doris Day in By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), It's a Great Feeling (1949), My Dream is Yours (1949), Romance on the High Seas (1948), and Young Man With a Horn (1950)

• Dale Evans in Utah (1945)

• Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk (1959)

• John Wayne in Tall in the Saddle (1944)

Enjoy these film clips:

• Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box (1929) - 2 clips

• Rita Hayworth in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

• Sever prepared a new clip, and upgraded/expanded some existing ones while he was at it!

• She Done Him Wrong (1933), a new clip featuring Mae West

• 42nd Street (1933) - upgrade

• Frankenstein (1931) - upgrade

• The Women (1939) - upgrade

September 18, 2007

We start with a Nick-a-thon:

• Corinne Calvet

• Helene Costello

• Dolores Del Rio in The Fugitive (1947)

• Brian Donlevy in Nightmare (1942)

• Zsa Zsa Gabor in The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)

• Janet Gaynor - 3 pictures

• Gene Tierney:

• 5 pictures from Dragonwyck (1946),

• 7 pictures from Laura (1944), with Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, and Clifton Webb

• 1 picture from The Return of Frank James (1940)

• 1 picture from Thunder Birds (1942)

• 1 posed shot

Jane sent in a new shot of singer/actress Ruth Etting, from the musical Whoopee! (1928-29).

Corrections/attributions for existing photos:

• Jane identified three of our Ziegfeld Girls photos as Margaret Horan

• Ricardo spotted a Mae West photo from She Done Him Wrong (1933), and two Sophia Loren pictures from A Countess From Hong Kong (1966) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

• Sarah found some needed changes:

• Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942)

• Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in The Girl of the Golden West (1938)

Enjoy these film clips:

• Sever has some new and upgraded clips:

• Ben-Hur:  A Tale of the Christ (1925) - one new clip featuring Francis X. Bushman and May McAvoy, and two upgraded clips

• The Guns of Navarone (1961) - 2 clips featuring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven, and Anthony Quayle

• Rio Lobo (1970), featuring John Wayne

• Strangers on a Train (1951) - 4 clips featuring Robert Walker and Farley Granger

• Upgrades of To Catch a Thief (1955), with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant and White Heat (1949), starring the incendiary James Cagney

• We also have a two more clips of our own:

• A Night in Casablanca (1946) - 2 clips featuring The Marx Brothers

• Blue Steel (1934) - John Wayne gets the bad guys in this early western

September 15, 2007