New Photos Added: Peter Bogdanovich, George Cukor, Howard Stern, THE COLOR OF MONEY, Norm and Bing Crosby, THE CONVERSATION, etc.
April 26th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Milton Berle - 3 rare candids at the Professional Children’s School, 1973
Peter Bogdanovich - 20 Photos
Celebrity Endorsements
Tuesday Weld for 7-Up
Peter Lind Hayes stops itching and relieves pain
Michael Redgrave, Imogene Coca, David Wayne, Jane Powell & Peter Lawford for Bad Meat in the Can, 1957
Judy Holliday for Brides Magazine
Tom Ewell for Chase and Sanborn Coffee
The Color of Money - 4 New Photos
Jennifer Connelly - 22 Photos
The Conversation - 6 Photos
Bing Crosby - 5 Photos
Norm Crosby - 2 Photos
George Cukor - 14 Photos
Jerry Lewis - 8 Photos
Howard Stern - Ad for the WOR Show featuring Bob Hope
Filter-tipped, Mashed or Au Gratin
Vintage Ads
Spud Cigarettes
Douglas Sirk’s Battle Hymn
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Vintage Movie Ads
June 24th, 2007 by Scott Marks
Aside from bronzed bums and terrible food, the one thing this Chicago transplant can’t get his head around is the fact that movie reviews appear in the Thursday entertainment section of the San Diego newspaper as opposed to Friday.
Between the time my I received my first driver’s license and the year revival houses were replaced by home video, every Thursday found me stopping at ‘Blind’ Jimmy Arnold’s corner newsstand for the late edition of the Sun-Times to see what films opened the next day.
You never knew what was going to pop up at neighborhood theaters in the pre-VHS/megaplex era of independent exhibitors. What was going through the mind of the Devon Theater booker when he paired Marcel Ophuls’ 
I perused the Friday movie section with the same fervor a race track tout scanned his Green Sheet. The splashy box ads frequently acted as my first introduction to a vast array of features. I miss the lost art of ballyhoo. Forget about colorful marquees and lavish lobby displays. Nowadays, most multiplexes don’t even bother to hang a corresponding one-sheet at the entrance to the shoe box.
In the months to come, I’ll be dropping hundreds of vintage newspaper ads in the Image Vault.
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Vintage Newspaper Movie Ads
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