Goddamn Lassie in the front and center... That fu*king bitch!
And freakin' Errol Flynn gets second row??? No wonder he looks pissed!
Fox | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 12:42 am | #
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Holy crap, thanks for posting this-- I've been looking for the image for years.
I still think Judy wanted to lean over and sing a few bars of "Dear Mr. Gable" to Clark...
Brian | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 1:22 am | #
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This brings back some memories. When I was growing up in Portland, the best cineplex in the city (still the best, really -- Lloyd Cinemas) had this photo blown up to mural size in its lobby. I never recognized anyone but Lassie (c'mon, I was .
Adam Ross | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 6:30 am | #
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And that's a great (hilarious) banner, probably my second favorite 50s sci-fi behind Forbidden Planet.
Adam Ross | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 6:34 am | #
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Fox - That's actually Butchie, Lassie's lover. And Errol was probably too drunk to care so we can all take solace in that.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 8:22 am | #
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Brian - Glad you like it (and I'm glad your back from your whirlwind tour, you were missed). New movie books don't have photos like this anymore. Although I noticed I let a bit of text creep in to the top of my scan but otherwise my pleasure reproducing it for you.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 8:24 am | #
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Adam - What a cool mural for a movie lobby! And I so completely love The Incredible Shrinking Man. I like the first half just fine but once he's in that basement it becomes downright geekily exciting for me.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 8:26 am | #
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Van Johnson seems to be happiest to be there. Lionel Barrymore is probably happy just to be still alive. Lewis Stone seems pissed considering that the low budget "Andy Hardy" movies helped keep MGM financially afloat.
Peter Nellhaus | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 8:45 am | #
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Peter - It's amazing to me how grumpy so many of them seem. And as Fox said, Errol does look ticked off. Maybe he didn't like Gable (by the way everyone, they're seated in alphabetical order from bottom row left to right to top row left to right - with the two exceptions of Lionel Barrymore and Lassie, not sure why) and was annoyed they had to sit together. But good old Van, he does look happy. Maybe aftewards he cheered up Lewis Stone with a drink and a joke.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 8:59 am | #
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Peter Lawford looks weird with a mustache.
Marilyn Ferdinand | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 9:33 am | #
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And like so many others, he looks annoyed. He's also slightly out of place. He should be after Lansbury and Lanza and Janet Leigh should be at the start of the next row. So maybe he's annoyed that he's the only "L" up there.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 9:39 am | #
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Spence looks like he's sitting for a mugshot.
Marilyn Ferdinand | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 9:48 am | #
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That's Jane Powell in front of Spencer and if you cover up the top part of his body his hands look like floppy bunny ears on Jane Powell's head. Well at least to me they do. I've looked at the picture about a million times. After a while you start to see things.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 10:08 am | #
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Who's the kid in the back row????
He looks so out of place, and kind of creepy... like the cardboard window boy in Three Men and a Baby.
p.s. How many people in that room do you think were schtooping each other?
Fox | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 10:35 am | #
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Okay,
Starting from the back row.
Jessie, Doozie, Smiley, Ralph, Jeffery, Julie, Mikey, Katie, Smelly Stewie, Limpy Louie.
Wait, I have a meeting. I'll be back.
Piper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 10:37 am | #
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Fox - It's the boy with green hair of course, Dean Stockwell.
As for schtooping, oh I'll say a third. Hepburn and Tracy we obviously know but I think Van Heflin and Lionel Barrymore might have had something going on too. And Lassie? Well, let's just say I heard she got around.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 10:56 am | #
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Piper - My god that's amazing! You didn't miss one. Okay, come on, admit it: You have the answers don't you.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 10:57 am | #
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Holy crap! That's Dean Stockwell? Awesome! Isn't Sheila a Stockwell obsessive? She should be thrilled when she she's this.
And for schtooping... I'm not implying anything... or maybe I am... but a body language expert would have a field day with what's going on between Flynn and Gable.
Fox | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 11:15 am | #
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"...when she she's this."
Fox, have you been drinking?
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 12:05 pm | #
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Oh gosh... haha, that's hilarious. That can't even be covered up as a typo! That's just straight up brain damage.
And I keep looking at this pic...
Know I'm noticing Kate Hepburn's eye line.
Fox | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 12:16 pm | #
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Are you noticing it know, right know, as in know this very instant?
Okay, I'll stop giving you hell.
I think Kate's amused at the Flynn/Gable situation and is waiting to see if Flynn starts lashing out at Gable uncontrollably.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 12:41 pm | #
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Someone already beat me to the banner love, but let me just repeat: awesome. Second only to your "Now Shamelessly Ripping off other Blogs" one to me.
I love the movie too, "To God, There is No Zero"? Amazing stuff. Jack Arnold has always been a bit underrated.
Krauthammer | | Email | 08.05.08 - 12:42 pm | #
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Grrrrrr...
Fox | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 1:18 pm | #
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Fox,
Lassie is a bitch, but she's a saucy bitch that knew how to throw her weight around back in the day.
Okay Lapper,
Burt Reynolds is in the first row.
Winston Churchill is right behind him.
And is that John Adams on the right end of row two?
Piper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 1:22 pm | #
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Krauthammer - I love the ending of that movie. I love that he's not discovered in the basement, no cure is found, no solution or resolution. He just keeps getting smaller until we assume his lungs will no longer take in air and he will die. It goes against everything you'd expect from a sci-fi movie of the time in which a cure is found or the process turns the character into a madman and thus his death is acceptable or something like that. But to end a film, a sci-fi film no less, with no story resolution has always impressed me. Despite some uneven acting and poor optical effects early on, by the second half, the basement half, this really turns into a superb movie. Overall, I'd say one of the best sci-fi of the fifties, better than The Day the Earth Stood Still and on par with Forbidden Planet.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 1:33 pm | #
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Fox - Mmmmmm... grapefruit.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 1:35 pm | #
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Piper - We've got to harness the power of your recollective abilities, they're astounding. I figured no one would recognize Adams or even remember that he was one of MGM's most popular stars in his early 200's. I am humbled in your presence.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 1:37 pm | #
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Hey, what's going on in here? Why all the ruckus??
bill | | Email | 08.05.08 - 2:43 pm | #
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Okay...can someone PLEASE help me with the top row? The first three men. I'm losing my mind. The first two women and the man with the wacked out smile.
Help.
Please.
Alex | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 3:01 pm | #
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Not sure abuot the third man, but the first two are Mario Lanza and Lewis Stone.
Marilyn Ferdinand | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 3:09 pm | #
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Bill - Where've you been? The ruckus is everyone has been wondering, "Where the hell is Bill?"
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 3:17 pm | #
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I was in the garden.
bill | | Email | 08.05.08 - 3:21 pm | #
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Wait a minute, Alex, I'm confused. The first two women on the top row are Alexis Smith and Ann Sothern followed by J. Carroll Naish, Dean Stockwell and Lewis Stone. But I don't know which whacked out smile you refer to. I've got a whacked out smile but I'm not in the picture. I'm pretty sure Bill's smile is whacked out too but as far as I know he's not in the picture either.
Fear not though Dear Alex - I'll put up a scan of the key in a bit. If you want to keep guessing you can ignore it, or if you just want to know you can look at it(and then show your friends the picture without the key and be all totally like, "Oh my god you don't know who that is?").
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 3:23 pm | #
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Is that Lionel Barrymore in the front row next to Astaire?
And is that Angela Landsbury in the third row, three from the right?
Piper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 4:09 pm | #
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Lionel's in the front row all the way to the left. But that's Angela in the third row third from the right. Hey wait a minute, those were real guesses - are you feeling okay?
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 4:17 pm | #
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Oh yeah, I'm legit.
Piper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 4:31 pm | #
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Hey everyone...
I did some research and found a picture of Jonathan's acting troupe from 1999. He's the one leaning back-to-back with the other guy.
Fox | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 7:13 pm | #
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You know if I wanted to (since this is Haloscan and not Blogger comments) I could just edit your comment and make it so that you say something really embarrassing about yourself. But since I like you and I'm so proud of the work I did on The Trojan Women with that troupe I'll refrain.
Jonathan Lapper | | Email | Homepage | 08.05.08 - 7:31 pm | #
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You know if I wanted to (since this is Haloscan and not Blogger comments) I could just edit your comment and make it so that you say something really embarrassing about yourself.
You could... but with the way I've been acting around here lately, I've probably done enough damage myself. You now what I'm shaying?
Fox | | Email | Homepage | 08.06.08 - 1:04 am | #
