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