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[mongoII]

Rudolph Valentino Medal for acting achievement in 1925 at the Ambassador Hotel?

By golly, Valentino beat the Academy of Motion Pictures to the draw regarding awards for acting, since the first Oscar was presented in 1929.
He certainly was ahead of his time.
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Pre-code star Kay Francis in living color


Angela Lansbury and son David greeting mourners at her husband's funeral.


Paul Newman enjoying a bag of popcorn? peanuts? beernuts?


Jean Harlow & Loretta Young chatting.


Two knockout blondes Marion Martin & Iris Adrian.


Tommy Rettig & Marilyn Monroe at the premier of "River of No Return."


Alan Ladd & Robert Benchley taking part in Disney's "The Reluctant Dragon" (1941).


Elvis Presley takes time from his bike ride to sign autographs.


Director Fritz Lang & Spencer Tracy on the set of "Fury"

[charliechaplinfan]

Lovely pictures. My favorites are the pictures that show popular actors of the day together away from the film sets.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

I also like those candid shots away from the set, Mongo.

That Bardo pix looks like a painting by a Spanish artist named
Irene Irribarren.

Clark before the dentist and the brow waxer. Were he and Frida Kahlo
related?

And that one of Barbara and Errol. Nice....

I enjoyed that photo of Loretta and Judy, too.

This is such a delightful thread, Mongo. Thank you for all the time you had to have spent organizing all this.

[mongoII]

Thank you CCfan and Sue Sue. Glad that you both enjoy the thread.
As far as the selection of images go, variety is the spice of life.
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Movie starlet and TV star bubbly Gale Storm remembered as "My Little Margie"


Pals Doris Day & Rock Hudson on the set...once again.


Robert Mitchum out to sea.


Dana Andrews on the other side of the camera.


Silent film great Harold Lloyd visiting Eleanor Powell on the set.


Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock & Ingrid Bergman taking the cake on "Notorious" set.


Child actor Donnie Dunagan as Peter in "Son of Frankenstein".


Child actress Janet Ann Gallow as Cloestine in "The Ghost of Frankenstein"


Ricou Browning as the Gill Man in "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (water sequences).


Joan Crawford getting into Angela Lansbury's hair.


Alfred Hitchcock in command of Veronica Cartwright, Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren & Jessica Tandy in "The Birds."


A serious Jerry Lewis.


Audrey Hepburn with husband Mel Ferrer on location.


Jane Russell and Terry Moore at the Academy Awards.


America's Sweetheart Mary Pickford posing in the mirror.


Gloria Swanson amidst the ruins of the fabulous Roxy Theater in New York (1960).


Vincent Minnelli & Judy Garland with their daughter Liza.


Roddy McDowall in a publicity shot from "Holiday in Mexico."


Bette Davis putting Spencer Tracy to work at the Hollywood Canteen.


Gene Kelly bestows a kiss on the hand of Princess Grace in Paris.


Rita Hayworth with the hairdresser that made her a redhead.


Grand character actor Frank McHugh gets his mail as wife Dorothy waits.


Vivien Leigh & Clark Gable ten years after "Gone With the Wind".


Teenager Guy Madison out for a bike ride.


Navy Commander Robert Montgomery with Tallulah Bankhead.


Gary Cooper entertaining Claudette Colbert with corn on the cob.


Baby Norma Shearer with her mom Edith.


MM in a costume not used in the movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".


Orson Welles as Prof. Charles Rankin on the set of "The Stranger"


Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Todd and their daughter Liza.


Angela Lansbury weds actor Peter Shaw on August 12, 1949.


Olivia de Havilland dines alone while going through her mail.


Bette Davis to James Cagney: Really Jimmy, it can't be that big!


The Lollipop Guild: Jackie Gerlich, Jerry Maren & Harry Doll of Oz.


Jerry Maren, now 88 with his wife Elizabeth.


Mervyn LeRoy, Judy Garland, & director Victor Fleming with Toto amongst the Munchkins of Oz.


Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck with something of value?


Lover boy Errol Flynn amidst a bevy of beauties in an early film role.


Montgomery Clift and pal Elizabeth Taylor in confidence.

[moira finnie]

Um, Mongo, that photo of Donnie Dunagan as Peter in Son of Frankenstein completely creeped me out. Having seen that movie recently, I thought that the poor kid was almost as strange as that other child actor of the '40s, Richard Nichols, (he's the allegedly French-born lad with the odd southern accent in All This and Heaven Too, among other movies). Why did those stage mothers insist on curling the poor tyke's hair so tightly and having them speak in such a mannered way? Jeez, if these boys ever made it back to a public school yard, life must have been a living hell for them. Through no fault of their own, either, I suspect.

Btw, that last photo of Monty & Liz looks like the battle of the big eyebrows, doesn't it? Thanks for keeping it real, Mongo.

[jdb1]

Mitchum looks quite handsome in that photo. Although I like his acting, I've never really been able to warm to his looks, but I suspect that he had a face very difficult to photograph, and that he looked a lot hotter in person.

I think Gale Storm looks essentially the same as she did 50+ years ago.

[mongoII]

Moira, child actor Donnie Dunagan does appear to be somewhat creepy in that image. He went on to voice Disney's "Bambi".
Dunagan later became a career Marine (1952-77), serving in Vietnam and working in counter intelligence. Now retired at age 74.

Richard Nichols on the other hand was a cutie. In fact Bette Davis adored him while making "All This, and Heaven Too".
He left the screen in 1944. At age 72 and the father of two he is living in Alabama.

Judith, I too thought that was one of the better images of Mitchum.
By the way, it was Gale Storm that started me collecting 45rpm records with her hit song "I Hear You Knocking". I still have it.
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Earthy Anna Magnani with writer Tennessee Williams of "The Fugitive Kind"


Barry Nelson with friend Mario Lanza.


Two fabulous Hermione's - Gingold and Baddeley.


Anne Bancroft and husband Mel Brooks.


A naturally charming Anne Bancroft.


In costume on Broadway Bancroft accepts her Oscar for "The Miracle Worker" from Joan Crawford.


Rest in peace dear lady.


Bela Lugosi, son Bela Jr. & Glenn Strange on the set of "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein."


Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane and John Garfield at Warner Bros. Studios.


Clark Gable, James Whitmore & Ricardo Montalban on location in the Rocky Mountains.


Ray Milland, wife Malvina and adorable son Daniel.


James Stewart with wife Gloria & Gary Cooper with wife Veronica aka Rocky in 1948.


Oscar winning character actress Jane Darwell near her fireplace in her ranch house.


President Reagan gets a visit from Audrey Hepburn and her partner Robert Wolders.


Glamourous Loretta Young.


Jack Haley (the Tin Man of Oz) with his wife Florence in 1979 a week before he died.


Veronica Lake awaiting the witching hour.


Deanna Durbin with the great pumpkin awaiting Halloween.


Actress Martha Vickers concocting a witch's brew.


Marlon Brando escorting Kim Novak to awards show.


Linda Darnell making ready for Halloween.


Lovely Stella Stevens at a autograph show.


Gail Russell and husband Guy Madison getting their picture taken.


Bat girl Yvonne De Carlo picking out a pumpkin.


Pals William Powell and Ronald Colman taking it easy.


Boris Karloff with horror film producer Val Lewton on the set of "Bedlam".


Betty Grable getting into the mood for Halloween.


Greer Garson with her mother Nina.


Statue of Lou Costello in his home town of Paterson, New Jersey.


Bogie, Bing and Bacall with a little Kangaroo.


Director Henry King preparing Gregory Peck for his role in "The Gunfighter."

[moira finnie]

Nice selections of those Halloween related publicity photos, Mongo. I wonder if Yvonne De Carlo developed her sense of comic timing while perched on top of that pumpkin. You've also included the only photo I've ever seen of Val Lewton smiling.

[mongoII]

Thank you, Moira. It's too bad that Val Lewton had his eyes closed in that image.
Currently I'm looking for some Thanksgiving related pictures of the stars, which are a bit scarce.

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'Bebop a rebop, rhubarb pie'

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Johnny Mack Brown, actress Barbara Weeks, Fay Wray, Ginger Rogers & husband Lew Ayres spending an afternoon together.


Ginger Rogers & Geoge Murphy about to present an Oscar.


Esther Williams enjoying time with her daughter Susan.


Brando clowning around with James Dean while making "Desiree."


David Manners out on the town with Billie Dove in 1931.


Suave Cary Grant leaving his hotel.


Ronald Reagan and John Payne relax after sparring.


Dwarf performers Gus Wayne & Olive Brasno wed in 1961.


Clark Gable taking pride in his Packard.


Former child star Darryl Hickman coaches acting. He is now 77.


Talented and underrated performer Edie Adams past away 10/15/08 at 81.


Greta Garbo looking swell in 1938 amongst reporters.


Natalie Wood, director Nicholas Ray & James Dean on "Rebel Without a Cause" set


Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested in 1989 for slapping a police officer.


Amusing character actor Sterling Holloway narrates Disney's "Peter and the Wolf" in 1946.



George Reeves & Fred Crane as the Tarleton twins in "Gone With the Wind"


Katharine Hepburn primping before a take on "The African Queen"


Bette Davis & Ann Sheridan attempt to eat while honcho Jack Warner babbles.


Marilyn Monroe on location over the subway grate for "The Seven Year Itch" with Tom Ewell.


Frank Sinatra presenting the lovely Deborah Kerr with flowers


Carefree Maureen Stapleton with her name in lights on Broadway

[charliechaplinfan]

Wow, that's Garbo in '38. Those eyebrows are alarming. I don't think she altered her style at all in her later years.

I love that picture of Errol in the last but one list, Mongo. Keep them coming, please.

[mongoII]

Thank you, CC fan. Garbo didn't have to alter her style since she was a legend of Hollywood.
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Anne Jeffreys and late husband Robert Sterling (married 55 years).


Jean Harlow with Walter Pidgeon in perhaps her last scene in "Saratoga" before her death in 1937 (Lionel Barrymore and director Jack Conway also pictured).


Joan Crawford out on the town with hot shot Hollywood lawyer Greg Bautzer.


Jayne Mansfield with daughter Jayne Marie from her first marriage.


Alan Ladd looking at pictures with daughter Alana.


Bette Davis with 16 year old ungrateful daughter BD on her wedding day.


Publicity shot of Julie Andrews as Victor in "Victor/Victoria"


It's none other than Myrna Boy, er Loy.


Marlene Dietrich in top hat and tails.


It's Ruth Etting whom Doris Day portrayed in "Love Me or Leave Me"


Rudolph Valentino keeping in shape.


Hedy Lamarr swimmimg the backstroke in "Ecstasy" (1933).


MGM stars Johnny Weissmuller & Jackie Cooper enjoy the great outdoors.


Columnist Louella Parsons with Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland for the "Heiress"


Walt Disney amongst the fabulous Barrymore's: Lionel, Ethel and John.


Audrey Hepburn with her beloved mom Ella


Champ Rocky Marciano visits Patricia Neal, director Elia Kazan & Andy Griffith on the set of "A Face in the Crowd".


Director William Wyler trimming Laurence Olivier's mustache on the set of "Carrie."


Rory Calhoun appears to be twitterpated or pixilated.


Old pals George Raft and Mae West out on the town.


Debbie Reynolds & Walter Brennan on the set of "How the West Was Won".

[jdb1]

That full-length mirror in the picture above was Hepburn's own, which she toted around with her on location shoots. Just another piece of professional equipment.

Thanks for the photo of Maureen Stapleton. The most thoroughly riveting theater experience I ever had was seeing Stapleton in The Glass Menagerie. She dominated the stage, without any histrionics or tricks, in a way I've never seen before or since (although venerable actor/teacher Alvin Epstein, who I saw this past summer in Endgame, came close). Stapleton could be very good on the screen, but never in the way I saw her achieve on stage.

[moira finnie]

Gee, Mongo, I'm not troubled by Ruth Etting's pre-code decolletage, (though she's definitely going to catch a chest cold that way), but her "children of the damned" eyes are creeping me out. I'd save that pic for next Halloween, pal.

[klondike]

Loved that crew shot from Seven Year Itch, Mongo!
Gotta say, though I never noticed that restaurant marquee overhead before; was it actually in frame for that scene, in the movie?

[Vecchiolarry]

Yikes,

Audrey Hepburn's mother needed to be told to step to the left or right in that photo...

Is she landing in New York? Did she snatch the Statue of Liberty's tiara and put it on her hat?
I know she was a Dutch Baroness, but baronesses don't have that big a tiara..

Larry