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