Film Historian Prints

A 1920's film director with hand-cranked camera and megaphone.

Stan Laural & Oliver Hardy.

Hollywood 1860 - "The Dickens screenplay's good but I'd like to bring in Thackery for a rewrite.."

Hollywood - the early years

Marilyn Monroe

Jimmy Cagney.

Humphrey Bogart.

Play it again, Sam.

Laurel and Hardy.

Some catholic like it hot

An old-fashioned camera operator cranking a movie camera

Pola Negri

Basil Rathbone Caricature

"All those movie stars in the olden days, puffing away, where are they now, young man?"

Gloria Swanson caricature

'Last night I had a weird dream. It was in old wide screen cinemascope and technicolor and Charleston Heston wasn't in it.'

Cary Grant

Janet Leigh

Clark Gable

Marilyn's Rushmore

Richard Widmark

Spencer Tracy

Veronica Lake

Vivien Leigh

Carole Lombard

Lumiere brothers caricature

Carole Lombard caricature

'It'll be hard convincing him to go digital. He just got over the adjustment to talkies.'

At last, the newly discovered films of...Woody Alien

The Empire State Building's design was modified slightly after the 1933 'incident'!

"First they made movies that were silent. Then they made movies that talked. Now they make movies that stink."

"How can we tell if this old movie poster is valuable?"

Katharine Hepburn caricature

Lauran Bacall

Gregory Pecks