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