How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Lana Turner in 1937 by Madison Lacy during the period she was under contract to Warner Bros. before being signed by MGM the following year. Like Marilyn Monroe, Lana had naturally auburn hair before Hollywood sprinkled her with peroxide and turned her into a “blonde bombshell”.

Ivor Novello in The Lodger  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)

The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor)

In 1937, Clark Gable and Myrna Loy were officially crowned King and Queen of the Movies after the New York Daily News and fifty-two other newspapers in the United States and Canada polled over twenty million readers.

You can die slowly, cut into a thousand pieces! Robin Wright in The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall between rehearsals for a 1946 Lux Radio Theater adaptation of To Have and Have Not, in which both actors revisited their original screen roles.

Vivien Leigh, That Hamilton Woman, 1941

There were three locomotives used in the film: one as “The General”, one as “The Texas” and one for a spare. The spare engine had been originally intended to play The Texas, but the engine that ultimately got that role was found to be in better condition. The spare engine played the role of the Union engine up to the bridge scene, where it played The Texas as it crossed the bridge.

For the scene in which The Texas crashes through the bridge, Keaton spared no expense, using six cameras and thousands of local extras. It cost nearly $50,000 at the time and was the most expensive single shot of the entire silent movie era. The Texas itself remained in the river until WWII, when it was salvaged for scrap iron. 

In the train crash a dummy was used as the engineer. The looks of shock on the faces of the Union officers were real, because the actors who played them were not told what was going to happen to that train.

The General (1926) dir. Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman

Candid of Hedy Lamarr and Miriam Hopkins out to dinner together, 1940