“An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one?” – Rutherford B. Hayes
Commissioner Gordon on the Batphone
Brief Encounter
Kate
Co-star in NxNW
Call Northside 777
Audrey
Naked City
Harlow
Angels With Dirty Faces
Attack of the Puppet People
Dr. Strangelove
ZaSu in Private Scandal
Pure Cary
Spanky
Thelma in Pillow Talk
Bringing Up Baby
Gun Crazy
Butterfield *
Arthur in Mr. Smith
Dial M
Rafter Romance
Torn Curtain
Gentleman’s Agreement
Imitation of Life
Clay Pigeon
Mr. Ed and Wilbur
It’s a Wonderful Life
42nd Street
Mr. Smith in Washington
Two for the Seesaw
Oliver
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
The Murder Man
Doris
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Hitchcock
Michael Corleone
Buster Keaton
Baby Jane
Nora Prentiss
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Dietrich
How to…
King of Phone skits
Alice
Rita
Touch of Evil
Vivien, Dark Journey
Marty
Klute
Johnny Apollo
A Foreign Affair
Loy and Powell
Midnight Lace
Corleone Gold Phone
Sandra Dee
Kent and Superman
Ernestine
I Wake Up Screaming
Son of Flubber
The him of His Girl Friday
Callaway Went Thataway
When Harry Met Sally
Angel Face
How to Steal a Million
Ace in the Hole
Joan Crawford and her Oscar
Soap Opera Phone Face
Psycho
The Bad and the Beautiful
A Hard Day’s Night
Three Strangers
The Towering Inferno
The Misfits
The Band Wagon
Pure Bogie
Tony
A Star is Born ’37
Ava
Joan Blondell
More Pillow Talk
Laura
A Day at the Races
Lou
Twilight Zone – Living Doll
Double Indemnity
Wrong Number
Graham Bell
Marilyn
Mr. Charles
Samantha
Victim 1961
Clay Pigeon
Notorious Lovers
Fail Safe
Elvis
Stanny
Little Caesar
Smart and 99
His Girl Friday
The Great Ziegfeld
Rosemary
Cary Grant
Judy
Jack
Wrong Number again
The Ameche
The Stranger
Anita Page
Wrong Number Again, Sorry
Kubrick
Forbidden
Number, Please?
Melanie
Pillow Talk
Dick Clark
Patty Duke
Bette
Sorry Once Again
Bells are Ringing
Welles
Mr. Gable
Bye Bye Birdie
Deadline, USA
A Touch of Larceny
The Cocoanuts
Sorry, Wrong Number
From Russia with Love
Phyllis Kirk Thin Man TV Series
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
The Jackpot
Garbo
Night Call – The Twilight Zone
Ransom
Heaven Can Wait
Humoresque
Blanche
Hands Across the Table
Anchors Aweigh
Landau NxNW
Potter
Crawford and giant phone
Ms. Moorehead
Halloween
Sweet Smell of Success
Hitch
The Birds
Thomas Crown
Brute Force
Sorrowful Jones
Natalie
D.O.A.
Watch on the Rhine
Rear Window
Laurel and Hardy
The Prowler
When a Stranger Calls
Bacall and Bogie
Mary Tyler Moore
Send Me No Flowers
Traveling Saleslady
Morticia
Thing
Oscar Madison
Chico
Lucy
Dial M for Murder
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!