Una Merkel and Robert Young dancing to the music of Carol Lofner and his orchestra at the Grand Hotel in Santa Monica in 1933.
Posts by Citizen Screen
A SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS Lana Turner photographed by Eric Carpenter, 1942
‘The Queen of the Deadpan Singers’ and ‘The Great Stone Face’ for a 1949 episode of “The Ed Wynn Show.”
Director Robert Siodmak with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner on set of THE GREAT SINNER (1949). Gotta love the sign on Siodmak’s chair showing how to pronounce his name.
The time I fitted Moses for his cloak.
Wendy Barrie was born on April 18, 1912 #botd
Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964), screenwriter, director.
The delightful Leonid Kinskey was #botd in 1903. He is best remembered for playing a bartender in a popular Casablanca establishment.
Happy birthday, Hayley Mills
Dick Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
Virginia O'Brien was born today in 1919 #botd
Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in DAY-TIME WIFE (Gregory Ratoff, 1939)
Actor/director Irving Cummings (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959)
Arthur Lubin’s NEW ORLEANS,l was released #OnThisDay in 1947. It stars Arturo de Córdova and Dorothy Patrick with jazz legends Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.
Journalist and war correspondent Ernie Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945)
Jacqueline Bisset and Michael Sarrazin for THE SWEET RIDE (Harvey Hart, 1968)
Kitty Carlisle and Bing Crosby in Frank Tuttle’s HERE IS MY HEART (1934).
Michael Sarrazin (May 22, 1940 – April 17, 2011)
Kitty Carlisle (September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007)
Jimmy Stewart accepting an honorary Oscar on behalf of his friend Gary Cooper, who is too ill to attend the 33rd Academy Awards on April 17, 1961.
Daffy Duck made his debut on April 17, 1937 with the release of the Warner Bros. cartoon short PORKY’S DUCK HUNT. Directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett. #OnThisDay
William Holden was born on April 17, 1918. #botd Easy on the eyes and one of the best to ever do it.
The Ford Mustang was officially introduced to the public on April 17, 1964, at the New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY.
Claudette Colbert for Max Factor Hollywood makeup, 1942 ad
Fay Bainter made history at the 1939 #Oscars by becoming the first performer nominated in the same year for Best Actress (for Edmund Goulding’s WHITE BANNERS) and Best Supporting Actress (for William Wyler’s JEZEBEL), winning for the latter.
Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002)
David Lean directing John Howard Davies in the rooftop scene in OLIVER TWIST at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, in 1947.