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