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