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

Possibly my favourite from this week's offering (though Dana Andrews and the monkey run it a close second): http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/friday-night-boy-cool-319.html

 

Pat Woodell, the first actress to play Bobbie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction, died September 29 at the age of 71,

The original cast of Petticoat Junction, 1963: Pat Woodell, Bea Benadaret, Linda Kaye Henning, and Sharon Tate



Some sources claim that Tate, originally cast as Billie Jo, was fired when sponsors learned she had posed for Playboy. But according to the Sitcoms Online forum:

 

This photo deserves more likes. Wow!

 

This is so cool!

The spot for Andy Griffin show also looks very leave it to Beaver.. Could that have been the case?

 

No, Leave It To Beaver was shot on the Republic backlot (first two seasons) and then at Universal City.



Details on the Beaver house and Universal's "Colonial Street" (lots of great pics):

http://www.retroweb.com/universal_leave_it_to_beaver.html



The Munster house was 3 Doors Down from the Beaver house.

The Munster house in a Beaver episode:



Supposedly the Beaver house can be seen in many episodes of Adam-12, as Jack Webb was too cheap to shoot on location.

 

That's a very cool link. I've rarely watched leave it to Beaver,. But that is just incredible, the amount of detail on that street, the houses. I'm getting nostalgic just reading through that site. Thank you!

BTW,I was born in 81 lol.

 

Before it became the Beaver house, it was the house of the family held hostage by Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours (55).

 

Christopher Walken, child actor

 

This week's edition is kind of late:

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/friday-night-boy-cool-320.html

It was either this, during the making of The Great Escape, or Harpo with a monkey on his arm that's the pick of the week:



... Though that photo of Ursula Andress about to pop out of her bikini is worth a mention...

 

Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

Waly Cox charms Marilyn Monroe while Dean Martin chills out on the set of Something's Got to Give (1962)



SGTG was abandoned when Monroe died a short time later, but it was reworked into MoveOver Darling (1963), with Doris Day, James Garner, and Don Knotts in the roles originally played by Monroe, Martin, and Cox.

 

Happy Halloween!

In 1947 Boris Karloff once again played the Frankenstein monster (with a little help from makeup maestro Jack Pierce), for a sequence in the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Unfortunately this scene was cut from the final print, and as far as I know is lost.





Karloff last dabbed on the ol' war paint for a 1962 episode of Route 66 titled "Lizard's Leg & Owlet's Wing", along with fellow guest monsters Lon Chaney Jr (as The Wolf Man) and Peter Lorre (as himself).

 

Speaking of Karloff...



... he features in this week's selection:

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/friday-night-boy-cool-321.html

 

I never knew Midge Ure was so old!

 

Al Pacino and Al Lettieri rehearse for The Godfather at the home of Lettieri's brother-in-law Patsy Eboli, a real-life mafioso and member of the Genovese crime family (1971):



Pacino and Lettieri with Patsy Eboli:



The fascinating story behind the pics:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/03/godfather-family200903

 

This week's batch:

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/friday-night-boy-cool-322.html

And my favourite:



Narrowly beating The Gill Man...

 

Jayne meets Marilyn
Astor Hotel, NYC
December 12, 1955

 

Robert Young and Robert Mitchum in one of my favourite noirs, Crossfire.

Here's the rest of this week's choice, including the Marx Brothers in kilts and James garner as comic book Maverick:

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/friday-night-boy-cool-323.html

 

I that Chaplin with the boys?

 

I believe the fifth Scotchman (Fifth? Scotch? Get it?) in this pic is Sid Graumann, of Graumann's Chinese Theatre.

 

That makes sense. He looks a little like Charlie Chaplin, but wrong age.

 

Bob Hope meets Laurence Olivier