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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Andy Devine, one of my favorite character actors, was born on this day. Love the drip he brought to the 1975 Clark Gable doc “The King Remembered”. He remembered Gable in his early career as “the guy with the bad teeth” 😁

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jean Harlow chats up Richard Barthelmess, Mervyn LeRoy, and Paul Muni at Warner Bros during a luncheon held for the U.S. Naval Affairs Committee ninety-three years ago today, October 6, 1933. Loveeee the footwear here from LeRoy’s socks and sandals to the Barthelmess cowboy boots

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chevret (in beret, hiding her telltale widow’s peak, pointing across RKO’s Forty Acre backlot) and Nadine Dore (following Lita’s finger) survey the props to be used in the filming of Cimarron (1931) during its production in the fall of 1930. From my collection.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sheila Terry in Deco sweater and overalls “high-hats Duke, the [Warner Bros] studio policeman”, Screen Book, 1933

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like how these are always misidentified as being from Wings when they’re not. Anyway here are Wellman and Jean Arthur on the set of Young Eagles with Leo Nomis, Lieutenant R.H. Robinson and pilot Frank Clarke (all photos by Clifton L. Kling)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with plane-mounted camera on the set of the underseen Young Eagles in 1930. Most of us have probably seen these shots and not the film)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nancy Carroll and Buddy Rogers make faces behind director Victor Fleming’s back during the production of Abie’s Irish Rose (1928). Keep seeing this labeled as a photo of Clara during Wings so maybe if we post it with the correct information enough times the truth will persevere

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty funny, sensational tale of various complaints as told by Jean Hersholt about von Stroheim and the production of Greed (1924), published in Screen Book magazine, June 1933:

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Worth mentioning Edith Head was the Banton assistant here and has Bow’s entire Wild Party film wardrobe attributed to her, though whether she did these identical pieces worn by Clara *and* her girls, I’d love to know as I don’t. Though I do think of this.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Adrienne Doré in her Travis Banton lightning-strike one-piece, photographed by Eugene Robert Richee for The Wild Party (1929). Shocking!

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (caricature by Al Hirschfeld, 1929)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Adrienne Doré in a publicity portrait for the Christie two-reeler sound short, Adam’s Eve (1929)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with Barbara Stanwyck on the set of So Big, 1932)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Russ Columbo performing "You're My Past, Present and Future" in Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Jean Harlow, Joseph Calleia, director J. Walter Ruben, and cinematographer Ray June film a scene from Riffraff (1936) ninety-one years ago in September 1935

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thought-provoking article on the up-and-coming Production Code from Broadway and Hollywood Movies, July 1930 (!). Things would only get hairier from here!

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with a lion cub during the production of Young Eagles in January 1930, photographed by Clifton L. Kling)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Cute and sad to me that Stu Erwin and June Collyer died a couple of months apart from each other after decades of marriage. I think this may be the best photo of the couple taken

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jean Harlow photographed by Virgil Apger “playing” tennis on her currently-for-sale mansion’s lawn ninety-two years ago today, August 15, 1934

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Love the Carole cover on the table in this ‘33 photo of James and William Cagney. This photo, too, is from an issue of Screen Book. Love me a “candid” with product placement as well 😁

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This resonated with eighteen people on Twitter so once again boy do I have the piece for you

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Azadia did the original Laura (1944) portrait which wasn’t used in the film. She of course also painted Carole. Oh, and married to Rouben Mamoulian, but that’s of lesser importance here

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with portrait artist Azadia Newman on the set of Nothing Sacred, 1937)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy Jean Parker Day (born August 11, 1915)! A lot of fun as a pre-Code programmer gal, but do love how she came into her own in the 1940s.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A thought I thunk on Twitter while watching Looper that I’m recycling here specifically for @zgkap.bsky.social who retains the right to get mad at me for this comparison

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Marie Prevost and Andy Devine in a production still from Columbia’s Three Wise Girls (1932)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Jean Harlow in the intro to Suzy (1936), which opened on this day ninety years ago at Loew’s State and Grauman’s Chinese Theatres

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Jean Harlow and James Cagney #BOTD’s introduction in William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931). Harlow’s Gwen is the perfect match for Cagney’s Tom and is what Henry Cohen called “a moderately crafty provincial charmer, a kind of Mae West played straight.”

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sorry, I misremembered “expert marksman” from this book as “machine gun expert”, close enough

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (here with a “machine gun expert” preparing for a near-miss at James Cagney’s head on the set of The Public Enemy, 1931)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Sally Blane #BOTD publicity portrait on the set of the George Stevens short Boys Will Be Boys (1932)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Happy Sam Wood day (born July 10, 1883)! He directed Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man (seen here), saying of her after her death: “She was more eager to be constantly learning than any star I have worked with. She was one of the most genuinely kind-hearted people I have ever known.”

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday, here’s a 1920s photo of him about to run stuntman Harvey Parry over with a car

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Cukor on Harlow and her natural ability from the George Cukor Oral History, as published in this passage from David Stenn’s essential Bombshell:

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy George Cukor Day (#BOTD July 7, 1899!) Here with Jean Harlow and a leaning board on the set of what proved to be their only film together, Dinner at Eight (1933).

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Was reminded and keep thinking of the great Louise Brooks vernacular that is “those bums who are presently farting up film history”

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Jean Harlow photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull in one of the bedrooms at her home on Club View Drive 94 years ago today, July 5, 1932

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Press snipe with photo reads “Getting her airload of noise: Adrienne Doré, featured in the Warner Brothers picture, Street of Women, carries off her share of July 4th booms.” Here’s the 90-year-old NEA stamp, too, because I always like to see them.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And of course, fellow Warner starlets Ruth Hall and Ann Dvorak were not spared from this costume

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Adrienne Doré in an explosive Fourth of July-themed publicity portrait from my collection. Shot by Elmer Fryer to promote Doré’s last film for Warner Bros, Street of Women (1932) 🧨🎇

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

That was on display in the seance room at the Winchester Mystery House in 2023! Didn’t include the paper name unfortunately. Here’s the room where it happened though

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Madge Evans #BOTD and Robert Montgomery take a selfie on the set of Harry Beaumont’s Made on Broadway (1933)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Spencer Tracy takes a picture of Madge Evans (#BOTD) on the set of The Show-Off in February 1934

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“You Like Jean Harlow or You Don’t” by Bert Foster, an interview with Harlow on the set of Reckless (1935) that reveals much about her values and work ethic. From Motion Picture magazine, May 1935:

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Newspaper clipping promoting it. “The Public Enemy of Every Man’s Woman” is a great tagline…

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

94 years ago tonight, June 24, 1932: screenwriter Anita Loos, director Jack Conway, and star Jean Harlow make a personal appearance at Loew’s on Broadway for the premiere of Red-Headed Woman (1932)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Jean Harlow has golf champ Leo Diegel hold up the mirror in her makeup case as she touches up for a publicity portrait taken during a lesson in late 1932:

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