(Original Caption) Actors Louise Brooks, Nancy Phillips, James Hall, Doris Hill, And Josephine Dunn Play

Ramón Novarro in the 1920s.

Sidney Poitier photographed by Gordon Parks, 1959.

New Year's Resolution: utilize a wider variety of James Cagney-esque insults in my vocabulary. You smackoff. You chump. You penny-pinching pirate. You dirty, double-crossing, yellow-bellied sap of a stool pigeon, I oughta kick your teeth out one at a time now SCRAM, etc.

a place in the sun — 1951

Montgomery Clift

Elizabeth Taylor

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in their pool at Pickfair.

New York overwhelmed me. For the first few weeks I only strayed a couple of blocks from my hotel off Times Square. I would see three movies a day in an attempt to escape my loneliness and depression. I spent $150 of my limited funds just on seeing movies. - James Dean

"Rawlins this is Mrs. Kilbourne."

"Mrs. Kilbourne, haven´t you a cold? Oh, it must be the telephone. Your voice sounds so youthful."

Merrily We Live ( 1938)

director. Norman Z. McLeod

Dream Job: lottery winner who spends all their time making documentaries with insane budgets

Harlow was an actress who got along with everyone-with one exception: Wallace Beery. She had worked with Beery before in The Secret Six (1931) and the two had developed a dislike for each other that carried over into Dinner at Eight. Beery thought that Harlow wasn’t experienced enough as an actress and treated her rudely. Harlow found Beery gruff and boorish. Since the two were playing a husband and wife that can’t stand each other, the real-life feelings worked to the comic benefit of the characters. (x)

A worker uses a power drill on an A-31 "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Vultee factory in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit Alfred T. Palmer.