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