“There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
– Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Little Frankie
William Powell
Sollozzo
Truman Capote
Trailing Spade
Spencer Tracy
Thugs in City Streets 1931
The Lost Weekend – Milland
The Killers
Doublecross
A man with vertigo
Sterling Hayden
Sheldon Leonard
Robert Siodmak
Robert Ryan
Robert Montgomery
Redford in The Sting
Paul Dubov in The Purple Gang
Nagel
Murder, My Sweet
Mitchum
Micahel Corleone
Malden On the Waterfront
Lugosi
Lorre
Ladd
Jimmy Stewart
James Dean
Indy
Powell
Holden in Union Station
Guys
Out of the Past
Gregory Peck
Cary Grant
Glenn Ford
George Reeves
George Raft
Gable
Fred MacMurray
Fonda and Stewart
Edmond O’Brien
Don Vito
Don Draper
Dana Andrews
Cooper
Conrad Nagel
Clark Kent
Grant
Cagney
Gary Cooper in City Streets 1931
Brando
Eddie and Jimmy
Stewart
Fedora’d Bond
Bogart
Bing in a fedora ad
Lugosi
Ava Gardner
Abbott and Costello
Anna May Wong
Hopkins
Barry Sullivan and Kirk Douglas in The Bad and the Beautiful
Bing Crosby
Bob Benchley
Bob Hope
Grant
Charles Foster Kane
Charles Laughton
David Bowie
De Niro
Dennis Hopper
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X
Marlene Dietrich
Douglas and Lancaster
Eddie Muller
Eddie Anderson
Edgar Buchanan
Errol Flynn
The Evil in Touch of Evil
F. W. Murnau
Frank Morgan
Fred Astaire
Fredric March
Fritz Lang
Gene Hackman
Gene in the rain
George Sanders
Roland
Ginger Rogers
Hannibal Lecter
Harry Lime
Heroes for Sale 1933
Jack Benny
Jack Lemmon in The Partment
Jack Webb
Jean Gabin
Jean Seberg
Joel McCrea
John Garfield
John Huston
John Wayne
Joseph Cotten
Katharine Hepburn
Kojak
Lee Marvin
Leslie Howard
Peter Lorre in M
Marcello Mastroianni
Maurice Chevalier
Morgan Freeman
Newman in The Sting
Nicholson in Chinatown
Niven
The Rat Pack
Ricardo Cortez
Richard Widmark
Robert Taylor and Jack Benny
Rocky Balboa
Ronald Colman
Ronald Reagan
Rudolph Valentino
Samuel L. Jackson
Stan Laurel
The Blues Brothers
Rear Noir
Wallace Reid
Walter Pidgeon
Warner Baxter
Warren Beatty
Young Vito
Adolph Menjou
Alain Delon
Andrews in Laura
The Barrymores in Arsene Lupin
Billy Wilder
Clifton Webb
Cops in SF
Detour
Edward Arnold
Edward Everett Horton
Eugene Pallette
Errol Flynn in Never Say Goodbye
Kiss of Death 1947
Henreid in Mantrap
Ingrid Bergman
John Barrymore
Kiss of Death 1947
Bogart in The Maltese Falcon
The Awful Truth
The Crooked Way
Evil
The Phantom
The Roaring Twenties
This Gun for Hire
Thomas Mitchell and Ray Milland
Tyrone Power
Charles Durning
Edna Mae Oliver and James Gleason in The Penguin Pool Murder 1932
Elisha Cook, Jr.
Frank McHugh
Paul Muni
William Demarest
Spencer Tracy
Once upon a screen... 
You’ve got them covered! Great pics. Love Cary Grant in his Awful Truth hat.
Thanks, Vienna! This was fun.
A most pleasurable time was spent looking at these pictures. I want to respond in kind with Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy: http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2009/211/11460_124904557973.jpg
Awesome post! The fedoras truly complete these characters!
Thanks! Can look at them forever. 🙂