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