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