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Enjoy these new scans courtesy of Peter:

• Fred Astaire looking dapper

• Carroll Baker in Harlow (1965)

• Ingrid Bergman

• Richard Burton in Women of Dolwyn (1949)

• Gary Cooper

• Olivia de Havilland doing some last minute touch-up

• Frances Farmer

Karl has some magnificent new images today.

• Let's begin with some mostly-forgotten silent film "A" ladies:

• Jean Acker (2) pictures - she had a 42-year movie career, beginning in 1913, was married to Rudolph Valentino, and had scandalous affairs with other actresses—otherwise, she lived a ho hum life

• Claire Adams (2 pictures) - a Canadian-born actress with several silent films to her credit; after one talkie she retired and remarried

• Stella Adams - a prolific comedienne with Al Christie, Mutual, Universal, and Fox

• Maria Alba - (4 pictures) - appeared in American and Spanish-language films during the 1920s and 1930s

• Olive Ann Alcorn - this is an improvement of an existing scan

• Mary Alden - a stage and screen actress who graduated from New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1910, and who appeared in D.W. Griffith's productions of The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916)

• Diana Allen in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921) - she rode a seven-year whirlwind career (Vaudeville, Ziegfeld Follies, and silent films) before leaving it all behind in 1924 to become a happy housewife

• Viola Allen - a Shakespearean stage actress who also was in three pre-1920 silents

• Betty Amann - American actress, born in Germany, who performed in silents and talkies in both Germany and the U.S.

• Child star Joan Carroll (3 pictures) - one from Petticoat Larceny (1943) and two from Tomorrow, the World! (1944)

• Max Baer, Jr. (2 portraits)

• Olivia de Havilland (2 pictures) - A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and  Gone With the Wind (1939)

• Mary Eaton (2 pictures) - she was a Ziegfeld Girl, movie star and, early on a member of the Seven Eatons

• Street-wise, straight-talking Glenda Farrell sparkled in 1930s Warner Bros. movies!

• Robert Ryan in Lawman (1971)

• Cross-eyed silent film funnyman Ben Turpin

Also check out these new radio shows:

• Dangerous Assignment - 102 episodes starring Brian Donlevy, Herb Butterfield, and Betty Moran

• The Charlotte Greenwood Show - 64 episodes starring the popular actress

• Command Performance - 3 episodes featuring various film stars

• The Danny Kaye Show - 9 episodes

• Encore Theater - 13 episodes featuring stars in radio productions of notable Hollywood movies

• Frontier Fighters - 37 episodes of the historical drama series starring Hanley Stafford

• Joan Davis - 38 episodes of her three shows (The Joan Davis Show, Joan Davis Time, and Sealtest Village Store)

• Mystery in the Air - 8 episodes with Peter Lorre, Henry Morgan, and Agnes Moorehead

• Our Miss Brooks - 182 episodes of the classic comedy series starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, and Richard Crenna

February 26, 2023

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