Saturday, September 21, 2024

Tidbits for September 2024

The always cool Marcello Mastroianni

Don Knotts in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 


Don Knotts and Tim Conway in The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)






Don and Tim are terrorized by veteran character actor Jack Elam.


 Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall and William Gargan as shipwreck survivors in Four Frightened People (1934)







Verree Teasdale 


The Top Moneymaking Films of 1948 


The All-Time Top Moneymaking Films As of January 5, 1949 


I was amused by this notice that W. C. Fields posted in Variety.


A Midjourney interpretation of Alfred Hitchcock



The other day, I imagined what Mel Brooks' The Producers might have been like with Laurel and Hardy in the lead roles.




Midjourney member turkicko dressed up a number of legendary Hollywood actresses as Elvira.








A woman on Twitter denounces Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity because Fred MacMurray repeatedly calls Barbara Stanwyck "baby."  Wow.  Incredible. 


Here are a few vaudeville comedians created by Midjourney.








The idea of Leonardo DiCaprio starring in a movie about a psychotic ventriloquist came from brilliantshane2802.  





I used the idea to create a few extra images.











Here are two 1930s pulp heroes courtesy of Midjourney.

The Green Lama


Biggle



dog mommies

Mary Boland in Four Frightened People (1934) 




Muriel Angelus in The Great McGinty (1940)


Jessie Royce Landis in Columbo ("Lady In Waiting," 1971) 


The World's Greatest Lover (1977)



soap suds
  
Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) 


seltzer bottle 

It Started in Naples (1960)