September 2007
Updates

November 2007
Updates

We've got three new faces today:

• Marjorie Main in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)

• Rita Moreno

• Child star Margaret O'Brien

Sever sent us a neato scan of Conrad Veidt and Werner Krauss in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).

Louise prepared a beautiful shot of popular Doris Day just riding around.

Next, more great international scans from Richard:

• Wera Engels

• Ketti Gallian in an elegant pose

• Greta Granstedt in Street Scene (1931)

Frances slipped some more photos under the door:

• Bing Crosby - 7 pictures, featuring Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, and Frank Sinatra

• Basil Rathbone - 3 pictures

Rikke sent us more spiffy images:

• Brigitte Bardot - 8 pictures, including one from Shalako (1968)

• Bette Davis - 5 pictures, including three from The Old Maid (1939), with a film clip

• Greta Garbo - 3 pictures from Romance (1930) for Ricardo

• Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in a new 5-picture series from Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

• Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) - 5 pictures, including a glorious romantic shot of the duo

• Spooky Boris Karloff pictures, in honor of Halloween:

• The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with Elsa Lanchester

• Frankenstein (1931) - 10 great shots of the likeable big lug

Corrections/attributions for existing photos:

• Ricardo spotted:

• Lana Turner in The Merry Widow (1952)

• Natalie Wood in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

• Sarah found more photos from the movies:

• Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe (1941)

• Lena Horne in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

• Carole Landis in I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

• Ann Sheridan photos from It All Came True (1940)

Enjoy these film clips:

• Sever continues the onslaught with:

• An American in Paris (1951) - 3 upgraded clips and one new one of dancers Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron

• The Blue Angel (1930) - 2 upgraded clips

• Scarface (1932), featuring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, and George Raft flippin' that coin

• A Blueprint for Murder (1953) with pesky Joseph Cotten and evil Jean Peters

• Blonde Crazy (1931), with bellhop James Cagney admiring Joan Blondell's luggage

• Cain and Mabel (1936) - 2 clips featuring Marion Davies, Roscoe Karns, and Clark Gable

• Cry Havoc (1943) - Ann Sothern, Margaret Sullavan, and Fay Bainter lead an ensemble cast in this gritty bunker scene

• The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) with Jane Russell cozying up to her captors (Ralph Meeker and Keenan Wynn)

• The Gay Bride (1934), featuring Carole Lombard, ZaSu Pitts, and that lovesick bulldog—Nat Pendleton

• Ride, Vaquero! (1953) - 2 clips featuring Anthony Quinn, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Ted de Corsia, and Jack Elam

• MGM Short - Stop Look and Listen (1967) - a squirrely safe driving instructional video using stop-action and actors commuting on the ground with no automobiles  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

October 31, 2007

Here are three shots of a youthful Cary Grant to start us off today.  Sarah identified one of the photos as being from Madame Butterfly (1932).

Richard has more international stars:

• Camilla Horn

• Conrad Veidt in A Man's Past (1927), with Barbara Bedford and Ian Keith

• Eva von Berne in The Masks of the Devil (1928)

Rikke brought over some new scans by pack mule:

• Greta Garbo - 6 beautiful scans from Conquest (1937)—these were identified by Ricardo, and are dedicated to him

• Shirley Temple - 3 pictures, including two from Bright Eyes (1934) and one from Curly Top (1935), for Sarah (who identified these for us)

• Lana Turner - 4 pictures, including The Prodigal (1955)—thanks Sarah, and Two Girls on Broadway (1940) with Joan Blondell

Chris prepared some nice scans:

• Bonita Granville and Jackie Cooper jammin' in Syncopation (1942)

• John Wayne - 2 pictures from The Man From Utah (1934), with a film clip, and 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)—they feature Yakima Canutt and Sheila Terry, respectively

Sylvie sent in two new desktop wallpapers:  Marlon Brando and Alfred Hitchcock.

Corrections/attributions for existing photos:

• Louie clarified added some details for two Audrey Hepburn scans (#'s 41 and 62)

• Ricardo spotted a few corrections:

• Greta Garbo in As You Desire Me (1932) and Grand Hotel (1932)

• Ginger Rogers in Dreamboat (1952) and It Had to Be You (1947)

• Bette Davis in Jezebel (1938)

• Natalie Wood in The Great Race (1965)

• Sarah identified several photos for us:  Audrey Hepburn photos from Love in the Afternoon (1957), Roman Holiday (1953), and Sabrina (1954), as well as a Shirley Temple photo from Captain January

Check out the newest film clips:

• Maisie Was a Lady (1941) with Ann Sothern and Lew Ayres

• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) - 2 clips featuring Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley, Lawrence Grant, and a hypnotic performance by...(gulp!)...Charles Starrett

• Riptide (1934) - a fast-paced, funny sequence showcasing Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery—also look for Bruce Bennett early in the clip, just before starting his Tarzan series the following year

• MGM Shorts:  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

  A Way in the Wilderness (1940) Alibi Racket (1935) Audioscopiks (1935) Capriccio Italien (1953) Dancing on the Ceiling (1937) Eyes of the Navy (1940) Forbidden Passage (1941)

  The Great American Pie Co. (1935) Party Fever (1938) Portrait of a Genius (1943) So Quiet on the Canine Front (1931) The Story of Doctor Carver (1938) That Mothers Might Live (1938)

• Sever helps out with more new clips of his own:

• Gold Diggers of 1935 - settle in, for we have the complete Lullaby of Broadway musical number!

• Laura (1944) - 4 clips featuring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, and Clifton Webb

October 27, 2007

Let's start with a shot of Warren William and Virginia Bruce in The First Hundred Years (1938), scanned from an original photo.

John sent in eight sparkling Greta Garbo scans, including Anna Karenina (1935), Flesh and the Devil (1926), The Kiss (1929), Love (1927), Mata Hari (1931), and two posed shots.  If you're a Garbo aficionado, be sure to check out GarboForever, his comprehensive website that celebrates the fabled actress.

Richard comes through with three more great pictures:

• Ursula Andress dining with James Dean

• Cornell Borchers in Never Say Goodbye (1956) with Rock Hudson

• Ursula Thiess in Bengal Brigade (1954) with Rock Hudson

Chris faxed over three "biopic" shots:  stills from the stories of big band greats Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, and Glenn Miller.  We also have a film clip featuring a musical number for each still.  The three photos include:

• Steve Allen and Donna Reed in The Benny Goodman Story (1955)

• Sal Mineo in The Gene Krupa Story (1959)

• James Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story (1953), with effervescent Louis Armstrong and somnolent June Allyson

Nick has some new photos too:

• Ginger Rogers - 6 pictures, including one from Vivacious Lady (1938) and two identified by Sarah as being from Shall We Dance (1937)

• Natalie Wood - 4 pictures in a matched set:  driver, brassie, spoon, wooden cleek

Next, check out these beautiful images sent in by Ivan:

• John Barrymore and Madge Evans in Dinner at Eight (1933)

• Errol Flynn - 2 pictures from They Died With Their Boots On (1942)

• William Powell and Myrna Loy in After the Thin Man (1936)

The elusive Rikke returns with several new scans:

• Lauren Bacall - 3 pictures, including two from To Have and Have Not (1944) with Humphrey Bogart

• Alfred Hitchcock - 8 pictures, including an idiosyncratic set of six posed shots with plants

• Shirley Temple - 5 pictures, including one from Now and Forever (1934) with Gary Cooper and one from The Little Princess (1939)—thanks to Sarah and Chuck for identifying this one!

Corrections/attributions for existing photos:

• Sarah spotted a picture of Barbara Britton and Sonny Tufts from The Untamed Breed (1948)

• Ricardo identified one of our Mae West photos as being from Belle of the Nineties (1934)

Thanks to all our fine guest contributors for their photos and expertise!

Enjoy these film clips:

• A Kiss Before Dying (1956) - we have the pivotal scene with Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward

• Applause (1929) - this is the remarkable scene in the theater where Joan Peers watches her mother, Helen Morgan, perform

• Autumn Leaves (1956) - a highly charged scene between Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson—also look for pre-Bonanza Lorne Greene

• Foreign Intrigue (1956) - watch bullet Bob Mitchum ingratiate himself with captivating Ingrid Thulin in record time—they're strangers at the beginning of the clip and, in a couple of minutes emerge all palsy-walsy

• Intolerance (1916) - 2 clips from D.W. Griffith's masterpiece, including the lavish court of Charles IX and the wonderful external Babylon set

• Sever also prepared some new and upgraded clips for us:

• Gold Diggers of 1933 - 2 new clips (Ginger Rogers singing "We're in the Money" and Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler strutting their stuff in a lavish number), and one upgraded clip of Joan Blondell and Warren William

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 3 new clips featuring Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif

• The Thief of Bagdad (1924) - 1 new clip and one upgrade, featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as a "sleepy" thief, and on a magic carpet with Julanne Johnston

• To Have and Have Not (1944) - 2 new clips and one upgrade, featuring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart

October 22, 2007

A new face today:  beautiful actress Claire Trevor, whose long career began in the 1930's and extended well into the 1980's.

We also have more international actresses from Richard:

• Elegant Tala Birell in Nagana (1933)

• Ketti Gallian in Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

• Sari Maritza in Evenings for Sale (1932)

Mark sent in another Claire Trevor picture by burro.  It's from one of her early films:  Song and Dance Man (1936).

John joins the fray with a lovely shot of Jane Russell in The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957).

Just in the Nick of time, he sent us some of his new scans:

• Frances Gifford in Marriage is a Private Affair (1944)

• Hedy Lamarr - 2 pictures, including Lady of the Tropics (1939) with Robert Taylor, and Samson and Delilah (1949)

Corrections/attributions for existing photos:

• Nick identified two more Hedy Lamarr pictures from The Strange Woman (1946)

• Marion corrected a Maureen O'Sullivan photo:  it's from Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

• Sarah also spotted some needed changes:

• Cyd Charisse in Sombrero (1953)

• Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie in Son of Ali Baba (1952)

• Laraine Day in My Dear Secretary (1949)

• Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in Red Dust (1932)

• Hedy Lamarr in The Conspirators (1944)

• Carole Landis in I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

• Hayley Mills in Pollyanna (1960)

• David Niven and Merle Oberon in Beloved Enemy (1936)

• Maureen O'Sullivan in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

• Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940)

• Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1938

• Elizabeth Taylor in The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)

Let's finish things off with a few film clips:

• Sever sent us:

• The Beloved Rogue (1927) - a new clip from this entertaining John Barrymore film, featuring Marceline Day, Slim Summerville and Mack Swain—we also expanded our existing clip where he catapults into Day's bedroom

• Citizen Kane (1941) - two new clips and one upgrade from this famous film

• Counsellor at Law (1933) - a highly-charged scene with John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, and an irritating telephone receptionist

• Key Largo (1948) - an upgrade of our existing clip, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

• The Young in Heart (1938), with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Paulette Goddard

• Vitaphone Shorts:  Pure Feud (1934), The United States Army Air Force Band (1942), and The Yacht Party (1932)

October 16, 2007

Richard joins in again, with three new international actresses:

• Hildegard Knef in Diplomatic Courier (1952)

• Ursula Thiess

• Mai Zetterling in Desperate Moment (1953)

Next, we have a spiffy photo of Ann Dvorak in Scarface (1932), courtesy of Sever.

Nick weighs in with some new photos:

• Lex Barker and Virginia Huston in Tarzan's Peril (1951)

• Mary Brian

• Ruth Chatterton in Frisco Jenny (1932)

• Marilyn Maxwell

• Roddy McDowall and pooch in Lassie Come Home (1943)

Frances sent in 16 more shots of Bing Crosby.

Sylvie sent in some last-minute desktop wallpapers of Ursula Andress and Gregory Peck.

Many thanks to our guest contributors.

We conclude with some film clips:

• A Night at the Opera (1935) - 5 new clips featuring several scenes from this famous comedy

• At the Circus (1939) - 2 new clips and one upgraded one

• Two Jean Harlow films, dedicated to Michel:

• The Girl From Missouri (1934) - 3 clips

• Reckless (1935) - 2 clips

• an MGM Short titled Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007

• Sever has some new clips too:

• Midnight (1939), starring Claudette Colbert—look for Don Ameche and John Barrymore

• The Seven Year Itch (1955) - 2 new clips and one upgraded one, featuring Marilyn Monroe and a panting Tom Ewell

October 13, 2007

Three new scans prepared by the Doctor today:

• Joel McCrea

• Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in Gold Diggers of 1933

• Gloria Swanson in the famous bathing scene from Male and Female (1919)—we also have a film clip (hide your eyes, kiddies!).  This photo had severe damage, including spots, scratches, blotches, splotches, glotches, stains, tears, powdery white shmooshes, fingerprints, and even two long poles that someone thoughtfully laid on top of the original photo before copying it—check out the original scan before cleaning to see what we mean (and call us crazy, but...are those large tiles on the shower made out of cardboard?)

St. Nick came early this year with some new scans:

• Richard Dix - 2 pictures, from Lovin' the Ladies (1930) with Rita La Roy, and The Public Defender (1931) with Shirley Grey

• Sylvia Sidney - 3 pictures, including one from Thirty-Day Princess (1934)

Richard has three more international ladies for us:

• Gwili Andre in Roar of the Dragon (1932) with Richard Dix

• Tala Birell in Nagana (1933) with Melvyn Douglas

• Eva von Berne in The Masks of the Devil (1928) with John Gilbert.

Karl trucked over some new images:

• Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan in Batman and Robin (1949)

• Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

• Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum in River of No Return (1954)

• Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (1959)

Jane resurfaced with some new images by Ziegfeld photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston, including Martha Mansfield, Mary Pickford, Albertina Vitak, and an anonymous Ziegfeld Girl.

Chris rolled in with some new shots of:

• Gary Cooper - 3 pictures from The First Kiss (1928), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), and One Sunday Afternoon (1933)

• Ann Sothern in Maisie Was a Lady (1941)

• Pauline Starke - 2 pictures, including one from Women Love Diamonds (1927)

• Shirley Temple

Corrections/attributions for existing pictures:

• Christophe spotted clarinetist Barney Bigard in our photo from New Orleans (1947)

• Lucian identified one of our Orson Welles photos as being from Man in the Shadow (1957)

Thanks to all our fine guest contributors for these interesting and beautiful scans!

Here are some film clips:

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - Bud and Lou have to deal with Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange

• Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer cavorting in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

• Twentieth Century (1934) - 2 clips prepared by Sever, featuring Carole Lombard and John Barrymore

• Warner Brothers Shorts:

October 9, 2007

We're back in the saddle again, after re-energizing the site.  Hopefully, you're finding everything a lot faster now.

We resume with a new face today:  Lloyd Nolan in Johnny Apollo (1940).  He's shown with Charley Grapewin and Marc Lawrence.  This scan was a real challenge—four hours of cleaning up scratches and fingerprints!

F.L. treats us to three more photos of Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (1941), including two with Gary Cooper.

Richard springs back with four new actresses:

• Andrea Leeds in The Real Glory (1939)

• Sylvia Sidney

• Margaret Sullavan

• Genevieve Tobin

Here's a nifty new photo of Gloria Grahame from Gary at DVD Beaver—check out his fine site for a wealth of movie information!  Many thanks to Sever, who provided some expert touchup work on this picture.

Chris sidled up with some neat new images:

• Lucille Ball and Red Skelton in Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

• Tala Birell and Melvyn Douglas in Nagana (1933)

• John Barrymore in Counsellor at Law (1933)

• Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in The Dawn Patrol (1930) - two versions, including a spectacular sepia-toned gem (thanks, Sever, for helping to prepare it)

• Clara Bow

• Nancy Carroll in Paramount on Parade (1930)

• three of the founders of United Artists, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Mary Pickford in a fun shot with Thomas Edison (we think)—here, Fairbanks feigns boredom as Charlie explains how the great inventor's motion picture machine has been transformed into an art form!

• Kirk Douglas and Doris Day in Young Man With a Horn (1950)

Thanks to all our guest contributors for these fine pictures!

Let's end with some film clips, including several prepared by Sever:

• A Dog's Life (1918) - a significant upgrade to our current clip from this Chaplin classic (complete)

• The Circus (1928) - one upgrade and two brand new clips

• Donovan's Reef (1963) - an upgrade to our current clip of the John Wayne/Lee Marvin slugfest

• The Kid (1921) - a beautiful upgrade of our existing clip of Chaplin's famous feature film

• Modern Times (1936) - two upgrades and one new clip (which features featuring Charlie Chaplin and Tiny Sandford

• The Strong Man (1926), featuring innocent Harry Langdon being hounded by a scheming Gertrude Astor

October 4, 2007

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