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Image: Tommy Kelly 1939 Aquatoned in USA

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Tommy Kelly circa 1939 "Aquatoned in U.S.A." large-sized 5" X 7" trading card. Checklist and many others are pictured on this guide and gallery page.

Tommy Kelly has died at age 90 (1925-2016). More from James L. Neibaur at Examiner.com.

Below is the same shot of Kelly from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in color on a 1938 Dixie Premium Photo:

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Image: James Cagney and Alan Hale Still Photo, The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

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James Cagney and Alan Hale in The Strawberry Blonde on a 1941 promotional still photo. You can click this one to enlarge if you so wish.

Pick up The Strawberry Blonde on DVD-R at Amazon.com.

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Image: Lon Chaney Jr. and Randolph Scott Still Photo, Albuquerque (1948)

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Lon Chaney Jr. and Randolph Scott pictured in Albuquerque on a 1948 promotional still photo. This one gets a little bit bigger if you click it.

Pick up Albuquerque on DVD at Amazon.com.

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Image: Alan Hale and Fredric March Still Photo, The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)

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Alan Hale and Fredric March in The Adventures of Mark Twain on a 1944 promotional still photo. You can click the image above to enlarge.

Pick up The Adventures of Mark Twain on DVD-R at Amazon.com or direct from the Warner Bros. shop.

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Olin Howland 1939 Postmarked Real Photo Postcard

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Olin Howland signed 1939 postmarked real photo postcard.

Worldwide eBay Search for OLIN HOWLAND Collectibles

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Image: Lon Chaney Circa 1913 Kraus Mfg. Postcard

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Lon Chaney circa 1913 Kraus Manufacturing Co. postcard. U.S. issue.

Worldwide eBay Search for LON CHANEY Collectibles

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Image: Lon Chaney Jr. Still Photo, Of Mice and Men (1939)

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Lon Chaney Jr. pictured in Of Mice and Men on a 1939 promotional still photo.

The caption found on back is shown below. You can click either image to enlarge.

Pick up the 1939 classic Of Mice and Men on DVD at Amazon.com.

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Ten Cents a Dance (1931) Starring Barbara Stanwyck

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Barbara O’Neill (Barbara Stanwyck) is one of a fleet of young women available for ten cents a dance at the Palais de Dance, though the matron (Blanche Friderici) feels that Barbara may not be giving even a dime’s worth of effort anymore. She spends all of her time talking about a boy from her apartment building (Monroe Owsley) and loafing at a table with the big-time businessman (Ricardo Cortez) who recently left her a hu...

What Price Hollywood? (1932) Starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

What Price Hollywood? was the first collaboration between producer David O. Selznick and director George Cukor during their time together at RKO in 1932-33. Invariably compared to A Star Is Born, a title first produced by Selznick at his own company in 1937, and next directed by Cukor for release through Warner Bros. in 1954, this earlier telling of the rise of a young actress intertwined with the fall of the man who disc...

Guy Kibbee Biography – Character Actor Played Sugar Daddies, Goofballs, and Patriarchs

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Above: Guy Kibbee by Fred R. Lundy, Oakland Tribune, October 9, 1932.

One of the most popular and lovable character actors of the 1930s and ‘40s, Guy Kibbee specialized in playing goofballs and patriarchs in just over one hundred Hollywood movies. Well past forty, and usually looking over fifty, Kibbee first excelled as pre-Code sugar daddy and come-on king in titles like City Streets, Laughing Sinners, Blonde Crazy (all...