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Steve sent us some neat new desktop wallpapers today, featuring
Bette Davis (2),
Janet Gaynor, Billie Holiday (2), and
Thelma Todd.
Jane sent us two nice early photos of
Fred Astaire and his sister Adele, by photographer James Abbe.
Nick, Jane, and Frédéric also have scans of
Katharine Hepburn (photographer Ernest Bachrach) and
Dorothy Lamour (photographer William Walling, Jr.).
Finally, Kay wrote in to say that our May 27
Charlie Chaplin image (of him in the bathtub) is from his 1922 film
Pay Day.
We appreciate these great pictures and technical
assistance from our guest contributors!
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Mark has given us so much, and asked for so
little...until today. He queried, "How about some pictures of
Thelma
Todd?" Well, here she is in the first of three scans.
Mark returned the favor with a new photo of
British actress
Jessie Matthews.
Speaking of Mark, here's a movie still of
Bette Davis
(shown with John Litel)
in
Marked Woman, submitted by Michael.
Nick and Jane offer some new photos of:
Jane supplemented these with another
scan of
James Coburn and one of
Charlie Chaplin from
Shoulder Arms (1918).
And Vladimir has three interesting pictures
of Czech actress
Lída
Baarová.
Karsten identified one of yesterday's
Marlene Dietrich photos as being from
Morocco.
Thanks to our stalwart guest contributors!
To conclude, we have a full-length
Vitaphone Short:
Ted Husing's Sports Slants #2 (1932).
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Enjoy these pictures of
Lisa Gaye (Debra Paget's sister) and
Raquel Torres, courtesy of Mark.
Steve
unveils four new desktop wallpapers today, showcasing Julia Adams,
Evelyn
Ankers,
Joan Crawford,
Kay Francis,
Boris Karloff,
Elsa Lanchester, and
Lillian Roth.
Vladimir emerges with a very nice scan of
Gina Lollobrigida. Someone once observed that her name sounds like
someone dragging a stick across a picket fence!
Nick and Jane provided three new photos of
Marlene Dietrich.
Jane also has a new solo effort: the first of
several
James Coburn pictures.
Sylvie sent in a new desktop wallpaper of
Louise Brooks, for Claude.
We sincerely appreciate the fine pictures
submitted by our guest contributors!
Finally, we have a new full-length
Vitaphone Short:
Beyond the Line of Duty.
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Here's a pretty photo of 1950's British lollapalooza
Vera Day. Va-Va-Voom!
Also check out our new scan of
Marion Davies.
Jane sent us an interesting trio today:
Where else ya gonna find this stuff?
Next,
Steve
created
three great desktop wallpapers, featuring
Eddie Cantor,
Lupe Velez, and
John Wayne.
And thank you, Mark, for a new photo of little
known actress
Jean Howard.
He's been specializing in images of obscure and/or forgotten actresses.
We sincerely appreciate the fine pictures
submitted by our guest contributors!
Finally, we have new film clips of:
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Jane comes through again with a new scan of
Tony Curtis and
Janet Leigh, from
Houdini.
Nick, Jane, and Frédéric sent in a picture of
Marion Davies from
Lights of Old Broadway. The photographer was Ruth Harriet Louise.
They included one of
Carmen Miranda for good measure (photographer Virgil Apger).
Thanks to all our guest contributors today!
We also have two new
Laurel and Hardy film clips. Here are the boys in
Towed in a Hole, from 1933. In the first clip, Stanley's
clumsiness disrupts Ollie's painting. And in the second, they show us
how not to launch a boat.
[Note: videos removed 12/3/2006]
We conclude with two new full-length
Vitaphone Shorts:
Smash Your Baggage and
So You're Going
on a Vacation. Enjoy!
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Here's our first look at alluring
Marie Windsor,
in a photo from
The Narrow Margin. We'll have one more image of her
shortly.
Jane sent us two pictures of
Grace Kelly.
Nick, Jane, and Frédéric prepared images of
Norma Shearer (by photographer Ruth Harriet Louise) and
Roy Rogers
and Trigger
(by photographer Roman Freulich).
Thanks to our guest contributors for today's
scans!
Also enjoy this film clip of
Henry Fonda in
Fort Apache. Also look for
John Wayne,
Victor McLaglen, and Grant Withers in this extended scene.
Finally, we added more songs by:
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Judy Garland - I Got Rhythm, Meet Me in St. Louis, On the
Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, The Trolley Song, You Made Me Love
You
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Eddie Cantor - Cheer Up, Smile, Nertz!
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Jane sent us pictures of:
Enjoy these two pictures of
Jean Harlow from Nick, Jane, and Frédéric. The first is from
Suzy (with
Franchot Tone). The second is a posed shot. Both
are by photographer Ted Allan.
Eagle-eye Nicol has been busy finding the films
that go with some of our existing images, as well as correcting some of our
attributions. Here are the key changes (more to come later):
Thanks very much to our guest contributors
today!
We end with a film clip of
Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell in
The Seven Year Itch. You know the one...
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Jane sent us two pictures of beautiful
Grace Kelly, and one of
Barbara Britton and Sonny Tufts on the set of
The Virginian (1946), by photographer Irving Lippmann.
Nick, Jane, and Frédéric zipped over some nice
shots of:
Thanks very much to Jane, Nick and Frédéric for
today's interesting pictures!
Finally, we have two more full-length
Vitaphone Shorts:
I'm Much Obliged and
So You Want to be
in Pictures.
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Today, we start out with a another movie still
of
Charles Ray—this time in an unknown silent film.
Enry sent us a colorization of an existing
picture of
John Wayne and
Claudette Colbert in
Without Reservations (1946).
Check out these new scans by Jane:
Nick, Jane, and Frédéric also sent us a
beautiful picture of silent screen heartthrob
John Gilbert, by photographer Ruth Harriet Louise.
Thanks to all our guest contributors!
Finally, we replaced the existing film clip of
Bette Davis and
Henry Fonda in
Jezebel with one that has better sound and more playing time.
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After a well-deserved day off, we have a picture of
silent star
Charles Ray. Here he is in a scene from
The Flag Maker
(also known as The American)
from 1927, with
Bessie Love. On the reverse side of this original
photograph is the following handwritten note: "First 3-dimensional
feature. It was never released due to mechanical difficulty with
projection machines." According to the Internet Movie Database,
This film was produced by George K. Spoor for his Natural
Vision wide-screen format, but never released.
The strange shadowing on Ms. Love's forehead and on Mr. Ray's cheek were in
the photo, and were left untouched.
Next, here's a new desktop wallpaper from
Steve, featuring
Rita Hayworth in
Gilda.
And
Sylvie has sent us a
Barbara Stanwyck wallpaper too.
Jane prepared a new photo of
Robert Young. And she's joined by Nick and Frédéric for photos of
Buster Keaton and
Nina Mae McKinney (by photographer Ruth Harriet Louise) and
We also have two new film clips of
Buster Keaton
in
The General. The first is from the end of the movie, where he
saves the day and is finally inducted to the army. The second clip is
part of the famous train chase sequence where he shoots the cannon at the
fleeing yankees (it's more apropos to the movie still we have, than the
original clip was).
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Here's a picture of
Warner Oland from one of his movies—but we're not sure which one.
And, D-a-h-ling, Mark sent us a
neat shot of
Tallulah Bankhead.
Steve prepared three more spiffy desktop wallpapers (John
Garfield,
Katharine Hepburn,
Barbara Stanwyck).
Then check out some nice scans of
Kim Novak (photographer Robert Coburn) and
Rita Hayworth (from
The Loves of Carmen), by Nick, Jane, and Frédéric.
Our Iron Man, Sever, assisted in preparing another
Eddie Cantor sheet music cover.
Thanks very much to all our guest contributors
for their submissions today!
To close, we have a romantic film clip of
Greta Garbo and
Robert Taylor in
Camille, from 1936. By the way, the opening lines are not
Robert
Taylor speaking in falsetto—it's actress
Jessie Ralph out of camera range;
she appears moments later.
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We have a picture of
Shirley Temple from
Bright
Eyes, for Lucy.
Vladimir sent us a photo of a studious
Marilyn Monroe.
Jane prepared scans of:
We also have an exciting new film clip from
Alfred Hitchcock's
The 39 Steps, starring
Robert Donat, courtesy of Sever.
Thanks very much to Vladimir, Jane and Sever for
helping us out with this terrific new content!
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More
Joel McCrea today. Here he is in an early publicity photo.
Our resident somnambulist Mark forwarded a lovely picture of
Nell
Shipman by photographer George Walters. He added a bonus picture
of relative unknown
Pat Paterson.
Nick submitted two
Jayne Mansfield scans, from
The Wayward Bus (with
Joan Collins) and
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?.
Jane sends her regards with three
Judy Garland pictures: 1) with
Allan Jones in
Everybody Sing;
2) with David Rose; and 3) a solo shot. Jane supplemented these with a
beautiful—but mystifying—photo of The Kiss, from the 1927
Follies Bergère (does anyone know who the two performers are?).
Thanks to Mark, Nick, and Jane for these images.
We also offer a film clip from
Citizen Kane, starring
Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane. In this scene, his wife
(played by
Ruth
Warrick) finds out about his philandering, and leads him to
a confrontation with political boss Jim Gettys (Ray Collins). Also
look for Dorothy Comingore.
Finally, we have three
Vitaphone Shorts:
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Soft Drinks and Sweet Music (1934)
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Merrie Melodies - I've Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933)
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Looney Tunes - Gold Diggers of '49 (1935)
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Joel McCrea joins the party today. Here he is in a scene from
1932's
The Most Dangerous Game. This is the first of three new pictures
of him.
Sever's win streak continues with a nifty photo
of
Dick Powell in
Gold Diggers of 1935.
Nick has a neat shot of
Jane Russell in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
And we have three more
Elvis sightings from Jane!
Next are two more fascinating
Vitaphone Shorts in our continuing series:
Pie, Pie, Blackbird
(with Eubie Blake,
Nina Mae McKinney, and the very young Nicholas Brothers)
from 1932, and the
Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee Celebration (1930).
Finally, Jane provided scans of
C. Aubrey Smith,
Madeleine Carroll, and
Tyron Power, Jr. in
Lloyds of London, as well as a late 1920's picture of
Joan Crawford at a Halloween party.
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Jane offers two more photos of
Catherine Deneuve and one of
Groucho Marx with his daughter.
Here's a film clip of
Margarita Fischer in
Uncle Tom's Cabin, being sold to Simon Legree (George Siegmann).
This is a case where there's so much going on in a scene, it's nice to have
a movie still to take in all the action at your own leisure. Our photo
was shot from a reverse angle by the photographer, providing a more
comprehensive view of the proceedings in the large hall where the scene
occurs. Enjoy this short, but compelling, clip!
Nick sent us three pictures of
Marilyn Monroe, from
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and
The Seven Year Itch, as well as a posed shot by photographer Gene
Kornman.
Finally, here's a
Jayne Mansfield image from Ramez.
Many thanks to our stalwart guest contributors!
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Sever returns with a scan of
Orson Welles from
Mr. Arkadin (also known as Confidential Agent in the UK). We
complement the picture with a film clip.
Nick has prepared some nice pictures of
Rita Hayworth in
Human Cargo and
My Gal Sal (see our new movie summaries).
And Jane has three photos of French beauty
Catherine Deneuve.
Thanks to our hard-working guest contributors
for today's fine pictures!
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Today we're making a change to the
Galleries page to help it load faster. The numerous
stars in the Galleries cause that page to load slowly; now we've
broken it up alphabetically by last name to greatly improve the speed.
We hope you see a big difference.
Similarly, tomorrow the News page will be
streamlined. We'll display just the current day's updates. If you wish to see previous days' updates, just click on
the link at the bottom of the screen, as you do to see previous months'
updates.
Okay, with that administrative stuff out of the
way, here are today's new items, starting with Jane's pictures of
Eleanor Boardman,
Billie Dove, and
Alice White.
We also have new pictures from Nick, Jane, and Frédéric,
including
Mary Astor,
Linda Darnell, and
Louis Jourdan.
Nick's solo efforts today include:
Thanks very much to our fabulous guest
contributors! Check out the new movie summaries too.
We conclude with a film clip of
Charles Laughton rescuing, and then bonding with,
Maureen O'Hara in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Also in the clip are weepy, wimpy
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