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

Sidney Poitier, 1959

 

Hans Richter, Sergei Eisenstein and Man Ray, 1929

 

Hank and Jim

 

Audience watching Psycho, 1960

 

Spoiler

Robin Williams

 

Spoiler

 

One of those pics where context would only be a disappointment.

 

Spoiler

Toshiro Mifune at home, 1950s

 

Henry Hathaway (seated) directs Richard Basehart and Paul Douglas in Fourteen Hours

 

Possibly the greatest publicity shot of all time



Peggy Maley, Marlon Brando, Yvonne Doughty in a publicity photo for The Wild One (1953)

 

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Five from the bunch:

 

Sally Blane packs up some autographed ostrich eggs for Louise Brooks, Easter 1927

 

Who's the lady?

 

Susan Fleming, aka Mrs. Harpo

 

Thanks. I should have known that.

 

Two generations of Our Gang Easter:

The '20s crew:



The '30s posse:

 

Washington, D.C. drugstore (1942)

 

Date and location unknown

 

I'm surprised to be the first to ask: what's the gear? Is that a turntable on the left with a cover? If not, where's the turntable for all those discs? And the huge box on the right: is that a radio?

 

Looks like a shortwave radio on the right. Stewart was a ham? The thing on the left is his Epson printer.

 

Rare publicity photo for a never-produced reboot of The Wild One.

 

Happy Memory: The Hallicrafters SX-42 Communications Receiver

Stewart was a pilot in WWII and retired in 1968 as a Brigadier General of the Air Force Reserve. It would not be a big surprise if he was licensed as an amateur radio operator. But this unit is a receiver only.