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