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