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