Picture Show (A thread for interesting photos from the world of movies and TV)*

And this week's selection is:
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Some highlights:

 

Director Raoul Walsh with playwright Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory?), who lost a leg in WWI .

This was taken the set of The Strawberry Blonde, but I don't see Raoul Walsh anywhere (the guy in the hat, above Olivia's head, is not him). However the guy sitting next to James Wong Howe does look like Michael Curtiz. TSB's Wiki page says nothing about Curtiz working on the film. We may have a headline making story here folks...

 

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Highlights?









That's Henry as Clarence Darrow, right?

 

Steve McQueen insists on having the next dance with the Duke

 

Too Much Johnson is a 1938 American silent comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles. The film was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened. The film was shot to be integrated into Welles's Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy, but the motion picture sequences could not be shown due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue, the Stony Creek Theatre in Connecticut. The resulting plot confusion reportedly contributed to the stage production's failure.

The film was believed to be lost, but in 2008 a print was discovered in a warehouse in Pordenone, Italy. The film premiered Wednesday, October 9, 2013, at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.​

Some of the cast of Too Much Johnson. Welles' wife Virginia is in his lap. Mary Wickes (rear, second from left) we saw earlier in the thread as the original Mary Poppins. Erskine Sanford (third from right) would appear with Welles in Citizen Kane.



Joseph Cotten goes all Harold Lloyd;



John Houseman as a Keystone Kop:



Welles directing Too Much Johnson:



The film:

 

And this week's fun can be found here... FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #341 »

And among the gems:









And the dance number famously excised just before Casablanca's release, much to Claude Rains' relief:

 

Well, another week, another batch of photos at FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #342 »
... including:






Yup, that's who it is...

 

Love it!

 

I can't tell who that is with Bogie playing cards ...

 

Electronicam was a television recording system that shot an image on film and television at the same time through a common lens. It was developed by James L. Caddigan for the DuMont Television Network in the 1950s, before electronic recording on videotape was available. Since the film directly captured the live scene, its quality was much higher than the commonly used kinescope films, which were shot from a TV screen.​

Shooting Captain Video:



But Electronicam is probably best remembered for its use on The Honeymooners (it's mentioned prominently in the end credits).

The Great One tries out this Electronifacator thingamawhatsis with some pals:



The three camera setup:

 

You keep forgetting to put who we are seeing in the pics.

 

Peter Lorre.

 

Jackie Chan recounts how he took on Bruce Lee....

 

Thank you!

 

Dr. Kravaal's Frozen Hearts Club Band...........KARLOFF edition!


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Here we go with these week's post:

FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #343 »

The highlights are many, but include:

 

Inventor Hans Laube (right) with his 'Smell-O-Vision' machine. The device injected 30 odors into a movie theater when triggered by the film's soundtrack, and was used for the film Scent of Mystery, produced by Mike Todd Jr (left).







Poor word of mouth from technical glitches at early screenings ensured that Scent of Mystery was a box office stinker (lol) and the Smell-O-Vision technique was not used aqain. However the affair did inspire Henny Youngman's classic line: "I didn't understand the picture. I had a cold".

 

A lost scene from Horse Feathers. The Marx Brothers play cards while Huxley College burns down around them.



From the Marxology web site:

The finale of the film is also changed, but this was done before the release. According to the pressbook for Horse Feathers, the Huxley students tear the town apart for fuel and celebrate with a huge bonfire the night after the football game. However, Harpo decides the bonfire isn't big enough for such a sensational victory and his pyromaniacal book-burning bent in the film is carried to new heights as he sets fire to the college! Suddenly word comes that Jennings is trapped on the third floor. Groucho, cigar and all, runs into the blazing building amid cheers. He returns unexpectedly and hands a bystander his cigar. "There's no smoking in the corridors", he explains, and rushes back into the building. He reappears - not with Jennings, but with a diploma for Zeppo (and thus finally gets his son out of college). "I'll bet that'll burn Jennings up", he remarks as he retrieves his cigar butt.​

 

Young Charles Buchinsky

 

And some more gems:

FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #344 »

Highlights? There are a few:


It's man's world...

 

When giants meet: Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Huntz Hall, and Leo Gorcey in Dig That Uranium (1955):

 

Rita Hayworth in a scene deleted from The Lady From Shanghai

 

David Lynch & Isabella Rosellini

Francis Coppola, Marlon Brando


and a Twin Peaks shot.