Lucille Désirée Ball was born this day in 1911
Category: Silver Screen
Movies, Movie Posters, and the stars that propelled them into the spotlight.
Machine-Gun Miller
1940s photo of Ann Miller with an M1919 Browning .30 caliber MG
Nancy Torrez (1911–1994)
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with Mexican actress Nancy Torrez
Marijuana, 1952
aka Big Jim McLain.
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter (James Arness) hunt down Communists in post-WWII Hawaii.
In foreign dubbed versions, they hunt marijuana smugglers (IMDb)
The Saturday Night Kid, 1929
Mayme (Clara Bow) and sister Janie (Jean Arthur) are salesgirls in Ginsberg’s Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow’s first credited role. (IMDb)
Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Leona Lane standing in front of the Month of April (even though the film is set in May of 1929)
About How I Feel Today…
Elsa Lanchester in The Big Clock, 1948
Alkohol, 1919
A middle-class man falls in love with a woman from a more ordinary background, and they end up working in a variety act where they sink into alcoholism. He then kills another man whom he mistakenly believes is a rival. (Wikipedia) 
Martin & Osa Johnson
Martin and Osa Johnson got their start filming wildlife documentaries in 1909 with “Fishing with dynamite in the Solomon Islands.” Through the years they produced 25 films, some for the big screen like Congorilla and Borneo,while others were for the lecture halls of academia. The footage shot for these films was obtained from their various expeditions. Their 1st expedition was in 1917 to the South Seas, while their last took them to Borneo in what they described by FOX as a flying safari. Continue reading “Martin & Osa Johnson”
Cagney and Young
Jim Cagney and Loretta Young taking a break between scenes during the filming of Taxi (1931)
Will Rogers, 1932
Caricature of Will Rodgers in Washington DC, from 1932
