Here is the latest roundup of color transfers taken from vintage black & white photographs by your blogmeister. Enjoy!
Lon Chaney poses in a gift chair given to him by the crew of HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924), which was the first film produced by the then-newly formed MGM. The chair and the commemorative backing still exists:
Dolores Costello does her bit to publicize the construction of Warner Bros. new theater in Los Angeles circa 1928:
In one of his more unusual roles, Humphrey Bogart plays a Mexican bandit in VIRGINIA CITY (1940). On the left is Randolph Scott, on the right is George Regas:
W.C. Fields in one of his rare silent films, IT’S THE OLD ARMY GAME (1926) recently released on Blu-ray:
A very young Joan Crawford in the lost film, DREAM OF LOVE (1928):
Monty Woolley confers with Al Jolson as they prepare for a radio broadcast on the Colgate Show in 1943:
The ill-fated Olive Thomas circa 1920:
Pola Negri in BELLA DONNA (1923):
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in one of their last silent films, WRONG AGAIN (1929):
High up on the roof of the Paris Opera House Lon Chaney’s Phantom dressed as the Masque of Red Death spies on the lovers Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin. The film of course is THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925):
Director Sam Taylor welcomes Camilla Horn (left) and Lupe Velez on the set of TEMPEST (1928):
