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