Image Vault additions for week ending February 16, 2008
February 16th, 2008 by Scott Marks
I went in and alphabetized the photos in the Smoking Celebrities album. Here are this week’s additions: Summer Altice, Brigitte Bardot x 2, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Monica Bellucci, Penelope Cruz x 2, Mylene Farmer, Romola Garai, Melissa George x 3, Eva Green, Eva Habermann, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich x 2, Kerry Katona, Diane Kruger x 3, Eva Longoria, Sophie Marceau, Demi Moore, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller x 3, Brittany Murphy, Hayden Panetierre x 2, Michelle Pfieffer, Christina Ricci x 3, Shannyn Sossamon, Shu-Qi, Sharon Stone, Audrey Tautou, Charlize Theron x 5, Uma Thurman x 3, Michelle Trachtenberg
Jerry Lewis’ The Family Jewels – 13 Images
2 color shots of Jack Nicholson as “The Joker” in Batman and 2 from The Pledge
Blade Runner – 13 Images
Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy (3) and Batman Forever (1)
3 color portraits of Sharon Stone in Casino
Adolf Hitler Wanted Poster
Liv Tyler – 2 Images
On the Town – 10 Images
Anchors Aweigh – 5 Images
Johnny Depp – 34 Images
Alfred Hitchcock – 3 Images
Mommie Dearest - 17 Images
On the Waterfront – 3 Images
George Peppard in Home From the Hill, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (4), The Carpetbaggers (2), and The A-Team - 8 Images
The Pink Panther (1964) - 2 Images
Cinderfella - 4 Images
Cinderfella Record Album - 19 Images
T.V. Cartoon Blow Ups: Header card featuring all your favorite Hanna-Barbera characters plus the Huckleberry Hound Blow Up
Beau James - Soundtrack LP featuring Bob Hope
Postcards of Movie Stars Homes — Cary Grant, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny and Groucho Marx
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Image Vault additions for week ending February 8, 2008
February 9th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Vintage ad for Sleazy Rider
On top of the latest Image Vault additions listed on the home page, I am downloading dozens of new stills to preexisting albums. In order to keep you informed, a weekly of all the latest updates will run every Saturday.
Alfred Hitchcock - 50 new images
Bob Hope ads — 45 images
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis in Hal Walker’s At War With the Army – 8 images
Celebrity Endorsements: Arlene Francis & Jack Paar for DOUBLEDAY DOLLAR BOOK CLUB
The Original Program Book for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane - 19 images
2 New Contemporary Movie Posters: Waist Deep and Stangers With Candy
John Ford directing Seven Women plus 1 stunning Mongol compilation
The SCTV gang in Going Berserk — 8 images
In Bruges – 24 images
The Loved One - 18 images (including 2 of Mrs. Joyboy!)
Jayne Mansfield ad for Blondex!
Walter Matthau and Robert Morse in A Guide for the Married Man
Vincente Minnelli directs Liz & Dick in The Sandpiper — 4 images
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window — 2 new images
Sexy Smokers: Alessandra Ambrosio, Avril Lavigne, Mischa Barton, Sofia Coppola and Ali Larter
Teeth - 13 images
Jerry Lewis’ Which Way to the Front? — 16 images
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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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