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