July 2006
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September 2006
Updates

Karl prepared a glorious new Doctor Macro scan of Ann Harding in Her Private Affair (1929).  Shown (L to R) are an unknown actor, Ann Harding, and John Loder.  What a great period shot!  This was scanned from an original photo, and it had 76 years of accumulated scratches and goosh.  Karl did a beautiful job of fixing everything.

Jane sent along some new photos too:

• Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in Island in the Sun (3 pictures)

• Doris Day - 5 pictures, including one with Louis Jourdan from Julie (1956)

Thanks to our guest contributors for these fine images!

We end with some film clips:

• Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel in the splashy final number from Lovely to Look At

• Laurel and Hardy in The Fixer-Uppers (complete)  [Note:  video removed 12/3/2006]

• A Vitaphone Short titled Maid for a Day

• The Andrews Sisters performing four of their signature musical numbers in Private Buckaroo (1942)—also, in the last clip, look for some perky jitterbugging by Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan and the Jumping Jacks and Jills

August 30, 2006

Vitaphone
Short

The Andrews
Sisters

Jane provides more interesting scans today with:

• Doris Day - 2 pictures from I'll See You in My Dreams and 3 posed shots

• Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo, with director Howard Hawks (3 pictures), with John Wayne and Ricky Nelson, and a solo shot

• James Stewart - 2 pictures

Bob identified our August 24th picture of Olympe Bradna as being from the 1936 film, Three Cheers for Love.

Thanks to our guest contributors for these fine images!

And check out these new film clips:

• John Wayne and Gail Russell in two clips from Angel and the Badman—in the first, they enjoy an outing together; in the second, he's being nursed back to health

• a Vitaphone Short titled Private Lessons

August 27, 2006

Vitaphone
Short

Nick, Jane and Frédéric sent in pictures of Louise Brooks and Marion Davies.

Chris prepared another scan of Angela Lansbury from The Harvey Girls.

Karl has some spiffy new images:

• Debbie Reynolds

• Ginger Rogers - 2 pictures, including one from Swing Time [corrected to The Gay Divorcee on 11/8/2006]

• Norma Shearer - 2 pictures

• Ann Sheridan - 3 pictures, including two from Angels With Dirty Faces and Edge of Darkness

Enjoy these film clips:

• Carole Lombard being interviewed in The Princess Comes Across (1936) - what a lovely comedienne she was!

• an MGM Short titled Crazy House  Note:  All MGM Shorts were removed on November 25, 2007.

• a Vitaphone Short titled The Emergency Case

August 26, 2006

The Princess
Comes Across

MGM Short

Vitaphone
Short

Enjoy this photo of Angela Lansbury and Hurd Hatfield from The Picture of Dorian Gray.  This is for Carsten.

Here's a nice early picture of Orson Welles, sent to us by Sever.

Karl sent us ten more Film Noir Posters:  Crime Wave, The FBI Story, Federal Man, The Line-Up, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, Rogue Cop, Shield for Murder, T-Men, They Made Me a Killer, and Touch of Evil.

Mark2 sidles in with a nice scan of 1930's and 40's French-born actress Olympe Bradna.

And Jane returns with more great images for us:

• Joan Collins

• Doris Day in scenes from television's The Doris Day Show (the last picture shows her with young McLean Stephenson of M.A.S.H. fame)

• James Stewart in The Stratton Story (plus a film clip), in Vertigo, and two posed shots

Nick and Jane have more great shots of John Wayne:

• The Quiet Man (3 pictures)

• Stagecoach, with Claire Trevor and John Carradine (2 pictures)

• four posed shots

Carsten identified two of our James Stewart photos from yesterday as being from Magic Town (with Jane Wyman) and the other as being from Born to Dance with Eleanor Powell.

Thanks to all of our guest contributors for their scans and technical assistance!

We end with three film clips:

• Charles Laughton in Island of Lost Souls

• a Vitaphone Short:  Six Hits and a Miss

• Angela Lansbury and Hurd Hatfield in The Picture of Dorian Gray—in this scene, weirdo Dorian plays the piano for Lansbury's character Sibyl.  Any similarity between his keyboard activities and the music that actually emanated from that piano was purely accidental...he looks like he's milking a cow.

August 24, 2006

The Stratton
Story

Paula sent us a pretty photo of Simone Simon from her 1938 film Josette.

Karl continues to impress with:

• Paulette Goddard

• Maureen O'Hara

• The United Artists honchos:  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin

• Tyrone Power, Jr. and Maureen O'Hara in The Black Swan

• John Wayne and (yup!) Maureen O'Hara in Rio Grande

Enjoy these new delectables from Jane:

• Joey Bishop

• Doris Day in It's a Great Feeling (4 pictures)

• Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel in Lovely to Look At

• James Stewart (3 pictures)  [Can anyone identify the films these stills are from?]

Nick and Jane have more great shots of John Wayne in Hondo and Jet Pilot (4 pictures).  They also generously threw in a new Ann Sheridan photo.

Thanks again to our super guest contributors!

Here are two fun film clips:

• a trolley ride and then a romantic interlude with Hedy Lamarr in Comrade X (1940).  How did Clark Gable get so lucky?  Boy, I'd give anything for a trolley ride.  Also, watch for Felix Bressart early in the scene.

• Speaking of mass transit, how about Harold Lloyd in For Heaven's Sake (1926)?  We have the frantic bus ride at the end of the film, with everyone hanging on for dear life.

August 23, 2006

Back from a grueling bridge tournament, we have just a few choice items today.

Sylvie finished a new Doctor Macro scan of Lon Chaney, Jr. from the 1940 film Of Mice and Men.

Jane's provided two nice photos of James Stewart.

Here are two pictures of Carole Landis (one from I Wake Up Screaming, with Victor Mature and Betty Grable), and a domestic shot of Mary Pickford.  These are from Tim.

Nick and Jane prepared scans of John Wayne from Angel and the Badman (1947).  He's pictured with gorgeous Gail Russell.

Many thanks to our guest contributors!

We conclude with two film clips:

• Van Johnson and Lana Turner in Week-End at the Waldorf - in this scene, the two meet and a spark is kindled!

• A Vitaphone Short titled Studio Highlights

August 21, 2006

Vitaphone
Short

Enjoy this final picture of alluring Diana Dors—in color!

Jane wants us to multi-task.  So, besides continuing our James Stewart and Elizabeth Taylor series, we're inaugurating a large John Wayne collection, featuring many of his films—Nick collaborated on these with Jane:

• James Stewart - 3 pictures from It's a Wonderful World (1939), with Claudette Colbert

• Elizabeth Taylor - 8 posed shots

• John Wayne - 5 pictures from Rio Grande (1950), with four of them featuring Maureen O'Hara

Paula submitted a quirky, but beautiful, picture of Laraine Day in Those Endearing Young Charms (1945).

Nick, Jane, and Frédéric keep up the frantic pace with more early 1920's scans by photographer James Abbe.  Today we have The Dolly Sisters and Rudolph Valentino (two pictures, including one with his wife, Natacha).

We appreciate our great guest contributors!

Let's end with two Hepburn film clips:

• Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady - in this scene, she makes her first foray into high society

• Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, with James Stewart, Cary Grant and John Howard

Our next update will be on Monday August 21, 2006.

August 18, 2006