April 2008
Updates

June 2008
Updates

Let's begin with some new super-sized color scans:

• Bette Davis and Richard Todd in The Virgin Queen (1955)

• Marie Wilson

Richard has three shots of Montgomery Clift, Cornell Borchers, and Paul Douglas in The Big Lift (1950).

Next, more great scans from Nick:

• Constance Bennett - 2 shots at the beach, in Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

• Claudette Colbert - 3 pictures

• Marion Davies and Harry Crocker in Tillie the Toiler (1927)

• Laraine Day in Bride by Mistake (1944)

• Rhonda Fleming in Alias Jesse James (1959)

• Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat (1953) and The Cobweb (1955)

• Susan Hayward

• Marion Martin in Invitation to Happiness (1939)

• Marie McDonald in Lucky Jordan (1942)

• Maureen O'Hara - 6 pictures

• Sylvia Sidney - 6 pictures, including one from The Searching Wind (1946)

• Loretta Young - 3 pictures

We have many more interesting stills from Gary:

• Freddie Bartholomew in Captains Courageous (1937), with Lionel Barrymore and Spencer Tracy

• James Cagney in Captains of the Clouds (1942), featuring Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale, Sr., Dennis Morgan, and Reginald Gardiner

• Lon Chaney, Sr. in The Shock (1923) - thanks to Nancy for identifying the film

• Errol Flynn and Julie Bishop in Northern Pursuit (1943)

• Edmund Gwenn and Mildred Natwick dining in The Trouble With Harry (1955), while Alfred Hitchcock and the crew look on—also enjoy a film clip of this scene (courtesy of Sever), in which the actors discuss how to dispose of Harry's body, but are interrupted by (pre-Leave it to Beaver) Jerry Mathers who has recovered a qwazy wascally dead wabbit!

Frances sent in a nice shot of Basil Rathbone and Elisabeth Bergner in Paris Calling (1941).  Thanks to Carsten for the correct movie identification.

CJ spotted a Martha Hyer photo from Sabrina (1954).

Enjoy these film clips:

• Bye Bye Birdie (1963) - Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell, and the rest of the kids kick up their heels in this high-spirited musical clip

• Fallen Angel (1945) - Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell leave a meeting to go dancing, and then they get romantic under the boardwalk—until she changes her mind

• Frisco Kid (1935) - James Cagney confronts a cheating card dealer in a bustling saloon—watch for hearth throb Lili Damita, who seems to be in cahoots with the card sharp (Ricardo Cortez)

• I Wake Up Screaming (1941) - In the first clip, Betty Grable walks in on Victor Mature kneeling over the body of her dead sister (Carole Landis) and doesn't know who to believe; in the second clip, Victor Mature rudely wakes Allyn Joslyn to see what he remembers

• The Jolson Story (1946) - Larry Parks wows the audience as singer Al Jolson, in this famous biopic

• My Fair Lady (1964) - Sever has prepared three more memorable musical clips featuring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn

• Road Show (1941) - A zany dinner party with Patsy Kelly, Adolphe Menjou, and Carole Landis is interrupted by news of a fire at their carnival

• Seven Sinners (1940) - We have three clips from this raucous film, featuring Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Billy Gilbert, Mischa Auer, and Oscar Homolka

• Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) - Here's the final splashy, celestial musical number in its entirety, featuring (count 'em) Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, and Frank Sinatra

May 27, 2008

Lots of actresses today!

We start with three new photos of Susan Hayward.

Next, Richard has some sexy American actresses from the 1950's:

• Julie Adams

• Martha Hyer

• Mamie Van Doren

More heroic efforts by Nick:

• Joan Blondell - 7 pictures

• Grace Bradley

• Miriam Hopkins - 2 pictures

• Martha Hyer - 5 pictures, including one from The Carpetbaggers (1964)

• Carole Lombard - 3 pictures

• Evelyn Maxwell - assistant to magician Carter the Great

• Marilyn Maxwell - 4 pictures

• Donna Reed

• Jane Winton

Gary raced by and dropped off this photo of George Peppard from The The Carpetbaggers (1964).  He barely had time to include a photo of Lili Damita and James Cagney in Frisco Kid (1935).

More great scans from Rikke:

• Greta Garbo - 6 pictures from As You Desire Me (1932), featuring Melvyn Douglas, for Ricardo, who helped to identify many of our Garbo scans—we also have two new film clips

• Shirley MacLaine - 2 pictures

• Jayne Mansfield - 3 pictures, including one with Cary Grant in Kiss Them for Me (1957) and one from The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)—thanks to Ricardo for the movie ID on this last one

Thanks to our guest contributors!

Let's end with some film clips:

• The Buccaneer (1938) - A band of scummy pirates drunkenly debates whether to pledge allegiance to the U.S. or to England, until boss Fredric March weighs in for the U.S., and then everything devolves into drunken merriment, with Franciska Gaal serving the crowd—also look for Akim Tamiroff and young, under-utilized Anthony Quinn

• Gabriel Over the White House (1933) - U.S. President Walter Huston's medical condition and strange behavior are puzzling to concerned aides Franchot Tone and Karen Morley - also look for Samuel S. Hinds as the President's physician

• The Godfather (1972) - Sever prepared two clips of Marlon Brando and his crew doin' what dey do!

• It's a Gift (1934) - Store owner W.C. Fields copes with an oblivious blind customer (Charles Sellon) in this famous sequence, which also features Morgan Wallace ("How about my kumquats?") and Tammany Young as the store employee—thanks to Sever for this clip

• The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) - M'Lady Jane Greer and her servant help Stewart Granger on his mission to rescue the King in the castle, but everyone makes so much noise they can't get the job done—we've got stealth, suspicious glances, clumsiness, goo-goo eyes, smooching, and a knifing in this action-packed clip!

• The Sea Beast (1926) - Enjoy John Barrymore and the transcendentally beautiful Dolores Costello (were there ever sadder eyes?) in a tender romantic scene, as his jealous brother (George O'Hara) eavesdrops

May 20, 2008

Let's complete our mini-cycle of Henry Fonda pictures with two more shots of the enduring actor, including one from Let Us Live (1939).  Thanks to Sarah for identifying the film.

Richard has three more international actresses for us:

• Franciska Gaal in The Buccaneer (1938), with Fredric March and Akim Tamiroff

• Tamara Geva  in Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937), with Phil Regan

• Lya Lys in Murder in the Air (1940), with James Stephenson

Sever sent in a shot of Kathleen Burke and Gary Cooper in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935).

Gary has more sparkling images:

• John Barrymore and Dolores Costello in The Sea Beast (1926)

• Charlie Chaplin - 2 pictures from A King in New York (1957)

• Ronald Colman and Lili Damita in The Rescue (1929)

• Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone in Dancing Lady (1933)

• Bette Davis - 5 pictures from Satan Met a Lady (1936), featuring Warren William, Arthur Treacher, and Alison Skipworth

• Marlene Dietrich - 3 pictures from Seven Sinners (1940), with John Wayne

• Stewart Granger and Jane Greer in The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)

• Cary Grant and Edward Arnold in The Toast of New York (1937)

• Franchot Tone - 24 pictures, including:

• Dangerous (1935), with Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, and Alison Skipworth

• Gabriel Over the White House (1933), with Walter Huston and Karen Morley

• Gentlemen Are Born (1934), with Ann Dvorak, Dick Foran, Margaret Lindsay, Jean Muir, and Charles Starrett

• The Girl Downstairs (1938), with Franciska Gaal, Reginald Gardiner, and Franklin Pangborn

• The King Steps Out (1936), with Walter Connelly, Victor Jory, and Grace Moore

• Love on the Run (1936), with Mona Barrie, Joan Crawford, and Clark Gable

• They Gave Him a Gun (1937), with Gladys George

• Trail of the Vigilantes (1940), with Mischa Auer, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine, and Warren William

• The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942), with Joan Bennett

Rikke returns with a scan of Diana Dors, two of Janet Gaynor, and three of Jane Wyman.

Mark identified five existing Gloria Grahame pictures from A Woman's Secret (1949), The Cobweb (1955), Crossfire (1947), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and Song of the Thin Man (1947).

Thanks to all our guest contributors!

Here are some spiffy film clips:

• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1948) - Persistent love-struck student Shirley Temple wants to interview reluctant Cary Grant for the school newspaper, so he invents details of a sordid past to throw her off the track

• Easter Parade (1948) - Sever upgraded our two existing clips and added three more delightful moments from this classic musical, featuring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller, and Peter Lawford

• The Girl From Missouri (1934) - Franchot Tone and Jean Harlow cavort at the beach, while Nat Pendleton and Patsy Kelly have their own sandy agenda (this clip is for Michel)

• Poppy (1936) - We have two clips of W.C. Fields and lovely Rochelle Hudson careening through this wonderful comedy and emerging victorious

• Satan Met a Lady (1936) - We have three clips from this fun whodunit, starring Bette Davis and Warren William, and it just crackles with energy, witty dialog, love, murder, and plot twists—also look for Arthur Treacher, ditzy Marie Wilson, and Alison Skipworth

• Underground (1941) - One-armed Nazi, Jeffrey Lynn, takes a hankering to violinist/underground resistance fighter Kaaren Verne in this offbeat WWII drama

May 14, 2008