January 2008
Updates

March 2008
Updates

We start off with a photo of Buster Keaton dreaming up new gags in his trailer during the filming of Spite Marriage.  Keaton has drawn a baseball diamond and the "form" to his left is a home-made scoring sheet.  The coins are to mark base runners as players reach base.  He is listening to a game on the radio while scoring the game play-by-play.  Thanks to Bob for providing this information!

Richard sent in three move international lovelies:

• Elissa Landi in The Yellow Ticket (1931)

• Grete Natzler

• Rose Stradner

Alexey sent us three nice scans of Cary Grant in Charade (1963), with Audrey Hepburn.

Chris faxed us a couple of shots:

• Buster Crabbe - 2 more pictures from Flash Gordon (1936), including one with Jean Rogers

• Duke Ellington - we also have several of his musical numbers

Next, Doug offers two super-sized photos of Elizabeth Taylor.

More pleasing images from Frances:

• Cary Grant - 5 pictures

• Buster Keaton - 3 pictures, including two from The Navigator (1924)

• Anthony Quinn

Gary returns in force with several new offerings:

• Anny Ondra and Alfred Hitchcock in Blackmail (1929)

• Barbara Stanwyck - 4 pictures, including two from Ball of Fire (1941) with Gary Cooper, Double Indemnity (1944) with Fred MacMurray, and a posed shot

• Martin and Lewis in At War With the Army (1950)

• John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man (1952)

Carrie identified the movies connected with some existing photos:

• Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born (1937)

• Carole Lombard in Love Before Breakfast (1936)

• Marilyn Monroe in Monkey Business (1952) and There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

• Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (1941)

Thanks to our guest contributors for today's submissions!

We end with some film clips:

• The African Queen (1952) - Sever upgraded our current clip, featuring Katharine Hepburn jettisoning Humphrey Bogart's hootch

• Goin' to Town (1935) - Mae West and Paul Cavanaugh make the rounds in a casino, where she places some big bets on her racehorse—watch for oily Ivan Lebedeff (who covets her purse) and Russian (!) studmobile Grant Withers

• Hawaii (1966) - While Maui's Queen Malama (Jocelyne LaGarde) takes newly-arrived Julie Andrews under her wing, stuffy hubby Max von Sydow and his missionaries react to exciting news about local family ties

• Julius Caesar (1953) - Sever prepared 2 new clips and one upgraded one, featuring Marlon Brando, Louis Calhern, James Mason, Greer Garson, John Gielgud, and thousands of other periphrastic Romans

• The Passionate Plumber (1932) - Buster Keaton creates havoc in a posh gambling joint, and then becomes the object of Irene Purcell's feigned amorous advances as she tries to make boyfriend Gilbert Roland jealous

• Samson and Delilah (1949) - We have two clips featuring sultry Hedy Lamarr and sweaty Victor Mature locking eyes—also look for George Sanders in full regalia (did he wear that helmet home each night after work?), and eye-poppingly beautiful Angela Lansbury

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) - daydreaming Danny Kaye imagines himself a riverboat gambler—don't miss gorgeous Virginia Mayo

February 28, 2008

George Murphy joins the party today.  We have two pictures of him, including one from London by Night (1937) with Virginia Field.  There's also a film clip.

Richard has four new images of Wera Engels, including one with Edmund Lowe from The Great Impersonation (1935).

A different Richard forwarded a color photo of Gene Tierney in Sundown (1941).

Next, more delectable items from Gary:

• Buster Crabbe in Flash Gordon (1936), with Frank Shannon at the controls in Chapter 13 (Rocketing to Earth)

• Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles in Jane Eyre (1944)

• Charlton Heston - 2 pictures from Ben-Hur (1959), with Stephen Boyd and Jack Hawkins

• Gene Kelly - 4 pictures from Anchors Aweigh (1945), with Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Pamela Britton

• Barbara Stanwyck - 2 pictures from The Lady Eve (1941) with Henry Fonda

We have more fine scans from Gunnar:

• Greta Garbo - 6 pictures from As You Desire Me (1932), Mata Hari (1931), The Painted Veil (1934), and Two-Faced Woman (1941)

• Veronica Lake - 2 pictures

• Elizabeth Taylor in her first film, There's One Born Every Minute (1942)

• Anna May Wong

Michael sent in two more action-packed Flash Gordon pictures, featuring Buster Crabbe.

Rikke shared several new images:

• Clara Bow - 4 pictures, including one from Call Her Savage (1932)

• Evelyn Keyes - supersize me!

• Jane Wyman - 10 pictures

Corrections/attributions for existing pictures:

• Carrie spotted some pictures from the movies:

• Fred Astaire in Daddy Long Legs (1955)

• Rita Hayworth in Dante's Inferno (1935)

• Sarah identified a Julie Andrews photo from Star! (1968)

Thanks to our guest contributors for today's submissions!

Enjoy these film clips:

• Ben-Hur (1959) - Sever prepared a clip of the entire chariot race, featuring Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd, as a companion clip to the silent version with Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman

• Berlin Express (1948) - Suspicious Robert Ryan can't convince anyone there's something amiss aboard a train—even Merle Oberon—and it's up to him to stop a murder in this exciting sequence

• Guys and Dolls (1955) - Marlon Brando tries to placate wary Jean Simmons by offering to bring in twelve sinners to her mission, but she remains implacable

• The Informer - stool pigeon Victor McLaglen meets girlfriend Margot Grahame in a bar and is hypersensitive to every innocent remark she makes

• Peg O' My Heart (1933) - We have a poignant scene of J. Farrell MacDonald saying goodbye to his daughter (Marion Davies), who must leave for England so she can collect her inheritance

• West Side Story (1961) - 5 clips from this fabulous musical, featuring the memorable song and dance numbers by Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno, and Russ Tamblyn

• The Yearling (1946) - farming couple Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman just can't get their inquisitive son Claude Jarman, Jr. to go to bed

February 24, 2008

Richard's back with more 1930's actresses:

• Lénore Aubert in The Return of the Whistler (1948)

• Hazel Brooks and William Conrad in Body and Soul (1947)

• Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea in Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)

Alexey produced a photo of Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941).

We have a new desktop wallpaper of Jane Wyman, expertly fashioned by Carrie.

Rikke has some new items:

• Ursula Andress - 5 pictures, including one from Dr. No (1963)—thanks to Louise and Gunnar for identifying the film

• Kirk Douglas - 2 pictures

• Betty Grable and Hermes Pan in Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)—thanks to Carrie and Sarah for identifying the film

• Fay Wray - 3 pictures, including one from One Sunday Afternoon (1933).  These are from Rikke's new Vintage HQ Forum—check out this neat new place for lots of high quality photos from the golden age of movies

Gary moseyed on by with some new pictures too:

• Fatty Arbuckle sitting on the beach with 1918-era bathing beauties

• The Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935)

• Donna Reed presenting an Oscar to Edmond O'Brien for Best Supporting Actor in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Here are pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, from Gunnar.

We've added a great new link:  Lon Chaney at MySpace.  You'll find lots of interesting background details about the great actor here, so check it out!

Once again, many thanks to our fine guest contributors!

Here are more film clips for your enjoyment:

• The Longest Day (1962) - Sever has prepared a clip featuring Sean Connery, Peter Lawford, and their countrymen fighting in WWII with guns and bagpipes, the music for which is apparently an acquired taste—Sever also upgraded our existing clip

• The Lost Weekend (1945) - Sever upgraded our current clip

• Mad Love (1935) - In this macabre sequence, madman organist Peter Lorre attempts to strangle Frances Drake, but is thwarted by the most miraculous knife throw in the history of cinema

• Marianne (1929) - here we have Marion Davies, with a WWI French accent as thick as pâté de foie gras, cooking a roast pig intended for the officers, only to have it stolen by her soldier boyfriend (Lawrence Gray)

• Night After Night (1932) - in this fast-paced sequence, brassy Mae West is out on the town with George Raft, Constance Cummings, Alison Skipworth, and Roscoe Karns—listen for her famous line about how she acquired her diamonds!

• The Squall (1929) - exotic card-playing Myrna Loy tantalizes the local farmhand (Harry Cording) so much, he decides to break into song and then chase her behind either:  1) a straw house; or 2) the largest bale of hay we've ever seen—also look for ZaSu Pitts as the hectoring Lena

• They Got Me Covered (1943) - John Abbott changes into Dorothy Lamour's clothes, while perplexed Bob Hope stands by...until a secret note is delivered (by young Arnold Stang) in a sandwich—also enjoy ditzy Phyllis Ruth at the end of the clip

February 21, 2008