“An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one?” – Rutherford B. Hayes
The Ameche
42nd Street
Dr. Strangelove
Dial M for Murder
Garbo
Mr. Smith in Washington
Hitchcock
Forbidden
Ava
Loy and Powell
Pillow Talk
Welles
Halloween
How to…
Call Northside 777
Mr. Gable
Mr. Charles
Rosemary
Spanky
Naked City
Blanche
Nora Prentiss
Midnight Lace
Bye Bye Birdie
Dietrich
Landau NxNW
Tony
Marty
Johnny Apollo
The Stranger
It’s a Wonderful Life
The him of His Girl Friday
Notorious Lovers
Elvis
Sorrowful Jones
Humoresque
Laura
Rita
Clay Pigeon
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Clay Pigeon
Lucy
Number, Please?
Baby Jane
A Touch of Larceny
The Towering Inferno
Ms. Moorehead
Gun Crazy
Oliver
Attack of the Puppet People
Ransom
From Russia with Love
Kate
Bringing Up Baby
Imitation of Life
Arthur in Mr. Smith
Anchors Aweigh
Melanie
Morticia
Sandra Dee
D.O.A.
King of Phone skits
A Day at the Races
His Girl Friday
Harlow
Deadline, USA
Sorry Once Again
Touch of Evil
Potter
Thing
The Prowler
Kent and Superman
Bells are Ringing
Mary Tyler Moore
Judy
Watch on the Rhine
Psycho
The Misfits
Night Call – The Twilight Zone
Dial M
A Star is Born ’37
When a Stranger Calls
Smart and 99
Dick Clark
Marilyn
Natalie
Joan Blondell
Corleone Gold Phone
The Jackpot
Three Strangers
Joan Crawford and her Oscar
Twilight Zone – Living Doll
Jack
Rafter Romance
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
The Birds
Alice
Laurel and Hardy
Wrong Number
Oscar Madison
A Foreign Affair
Klute
Gentleman’s Agreement
Cary Grant
Hands Across the Table
ZaSu in Private Scandal
Patty Duke
Graham Bell
I Wake Up Screaming
Son of Flubber
Thelma in Pillow Talk
Samantha
Double Indemnity
Commissioner Gordon on the Batphone
Kubrick
Ernestine
Sweet Smell of Success
Brief Encounter
Thomas Crown
Wrong Number again
Bette
Wrong Number Again, Sorry
Doris
Send Me No Flowers
Crawford and giant phone
Audrey
Angel Face
Sorry, Wrong Number
Vivien, Dark Journey
The Band Wagon
Buster Keaton
Traveling Saleslady
Ace in the Hole
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Brute Force
Two for the Seesaw
Pure Cary
Soap Opera Phone Face
Michael Corleone
Stanny
Bacall and Bogie
Heaven Can Wait
Mr. Ed and Wilbur
The Great Ziegfeld
Callaway Went Thataway
Butterfield *
The Cocoanuts
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Rear Window
Little Caesar
Hitch
More Pillow Talk
Angels With Dirty Faces
A Hard Day’s Night
Victim 1961
How to Steal a Million
Chico
Torn Curtain
Co-star in NxNW
When Harry Met Sally
Fail Safe
Lou
The Bad and the Beautiful
Pure Bogie
Anita Page
The Murder Man
Phyllis Kirk Thin Man TV Series
Once upon a screen... 
Fabulous! But where ‘s the Ameche man.
Funny! Added him and a few others while having coffee this morning, but forgot to update the gallery. Just did it. I’d’ve been oblivious without your reminder so THANKS!! 🙂
Loved this look at that contraption in film and tv shows-shared it on facebook. 🙂
Yay! 🙂
Fab collection – everyone’s here! I LOVE how you included an article on how to use the telephone.
Oh be still my thumping heart!!!! That Gene Kelly moment in Anchors Aweigh! Golly. Just watched the other night, too, JUST for that… and if course watched the rest, and later rewound it… 😉
The soap opera face killed me!!! Bwa-ha-ha!!! This is awesome, Aurora! You made my day! 😀
Reblogged this on goosepimply all over and commented:
Classic telephone moments!! Wouldn’t have thought much about them if it weren’t for my pal, Aurora at Once Upon a Screen!! 🙂 They give me a happy face today!! (Thanks bunches!!) Especially, the ever-so-smooth Gene Kelly on that phone in Anchors Aweigh – even showing Mr. Sinatra a thing or two! Sigh…
Yep, the telephone. A very important instrument in the days when there was no email (yes, children, there are those of us who remember the days when you couldn’t email a friend or even speak by cell phone and if you wanted to call someone while you were out the house you had to, gasp, actually find a telephone booth and have enough change to call someone).
Tam
Very creative post 🙂
And fun to do. 🙂
Yes, I can imagine!