A scene from HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953) with Rory Calhoun as Eben Salem, Cameron Mitchell #BOTD as Tom Brookman, and David Wayne as Freddie Denmark. The film was the first ever shot in the widescreen CinemaScope process released by 20th Century-Fox.
Favorite Newspaper Noir #NoirvemberChallenge #filmnoir Has to be THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950), starring Dan Duryea, Gale Storm, and Herbert Marshall. A tabloid reporter is fired after his story causes a gangland assassination and ends up buying a stake in a small town paper.
1956 trade magazine advertisement from BROADCASTING • TELECASTING featuring the Du Mont Electronicam System on the set of THE HONEYMOONERS. Posing are Audrey Meadows, Art Carney #BOTD, and behind the camera are Jackie Gleason and Joyce Randolph.
Your Tuesday nightcap: A starring role for Robert Alda (Alan’s dad) as George Gershwin in RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945). In a fun turn, Oscar Levant, a real life friend of Gershwin, plays himself.
Stan Laurel being playfully greeted by Jean Harlow during a visit to the KNX radio studios on April 4, 1933. Harlow made memorable pre-stardom appearances alongside Laurel and Hardy in Hal Roach comedies like DOUBLE WHOOPEE (1929).
GM! Created right around the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, this gorgeous poster served as a mobilization tool to inspire and educate approximately 20 million newly enfranchised American women to exercise their civic rights for the first time. Man or woman, VOTE!
Your Monday nightcap: Belgian poster for THE RACKET (1951). #Noirvember
Burt Lancaster #BOTD and Audrey Hepburn in the western THE UNFORGIVEN (1959), directed by John Huston.
Just took this on the way to work. Doing background on a movie today. Call time 6am! Fortunately, we’re shooting indoors.
Mickey Rooney gives a gift to Ann Rutherford #BOTD in a scene from ANDY HARDY’S PRIVATE SECRETARY (1941).
GM! Burt Lancaster #BOTD with his wife Norma at Romanoff's restaurant in Hollywood, 1958.

















