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

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A sample:











And many more, including John Huston playing with guns again...

 

Future Pink Panther director Blake Edwards (right) as an actor in Panhandle (1947)

 

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Highlights:











But there are others...

 

Cowboy stars Tom Mix (far right) and William S. Hart (third from right) serve as pallbearers at the funeral of Wyatt Earp, 1929

 

James Scott Bumgarner

 

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Including...

 

The cast of the Raleigh (NC) Little Theater's 1952 production of The Drunkard. Fifth from left: Andy Griffith.




Two admirers flank the 1942 Senior Class President of Morgantown (WV) High School, Don Knotts.

 

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“Jackie” the Lion, recording the MGM roar, 1928.


Jackie the lion was the source of the first audible “ROAR” in MGM’s famous movie logo, thanks to the invention of the gramophone.
He was also nicknamed “Lucky” after surviving a plane crash and a studio fire.

 

It was later revealed that this was just a publicity photo, a split-screen between the crew and the real lion. The lion never got out of his cage on the MGM lot, though they did sometimes have "trained" lions on the Tarzan set, with guards and trainers hovering nearby just in case.

Meanwhile, here's Mr. Stanley Kubrick and his astronauts discovering the monolith on the moon in 1967 during the production of 2001: A Space Odyssey...



Who knew they allowed smoking on the moon?

 

It's his moon, I guess he can smoke if he wants to.

 

Clearly his well-known penchant for being a ladies' man was already evident in high school.

 

Greta Garbo seems a bit nervous next to this split screen:




Pre-production publicity photo for Tarzan and The Valley of Gold. Sharon Tate, Mike Henry, and friend (1964).



You can tell Sharon is uncomfortable by the way she's gritting her teeth. Perhaps that's why she left the project and was replaced by Nancy Kovack.

 

I can see why she wanted to be alone.

 

that is one cool ad!

 

Producer-director Merian Cooper with Fay Wray

 

Hal Wallis, Elvis Presley, Michael Curtiz, and Dean Jagger on the set of King Creole

 

Many pop culture mavens know that The Flintstones was originally titled The Flagstones (the name was apparently changed after legal threats from the syndicators of the comic strip Hi & Lois, whose last name was "Flagston").

But probably not many know that between the Flag and the Flint the project had another name, as these model sheets will attest:

 

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