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 The Children's Hour (1961), 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