Vintage shots from days gone by!

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[jimi'shemi291]

Originally Posted by Al K

Jimi;there was also the hot,scantily-clad babe in distress in every flick-hell,look at the posters and promo cards. I'm sure those scenes drove our Puritanical parents nuts.

I try to catch these Bad-B's around Halloween when the classic movie channels show them. Great fun;pass the popcorn,please!

Word up on the gratutious, vulnerable babes! Their presence in B horror flicks was quite a laughable stereotype of the era, particularly in retrospect. But in my small hometown, this was one of the few places a growing boy could see cleavage or a bare thigh.

Speaking of stereotypes, how about the predictable PLOT twists? Authority figure says, "Now don't go out there after dark." OF COURSE, the girl will wake up and go out in her skimpy nightgown, get disoriented or lost, get CHASED by a monster or fiend. NOW: Anybody with common sense would beat cheeks, BUT the girl keeps looking back, causing her to fall over a log/etc. She wakes up in some underground, poorly lit "lair," her vain hope being rescue by the guy who will win her hand by the end of the movie. Sound familiar?

[South_paw]

Thanks for this pic Jim



Been there many times myself back in the day. Even got busted with friends in the trunk once!

[jimi'shemi291]

Ouch, NitroBrother! Hurst? My lights said the paint scheme was unique. That would be the 455 then, wouldn't it? A LOT of cubes in a light but sturdy body. No WONDER guys loved 'em.

And, YEAH, it looks like it was boosted and then abandoned by a joyrider -- not junked, per se.

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I have a LOT of memories from Drive In Movies....most of which I cannot share here...

[Church Key]

I love these old drive in movies...My cable system shows three different cult movie shows on Saturday night. Wolfman Mac's Drive In Theatre, Elvira, and Off Beat Cinema.

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[GaryB]

Originally Posted by Church Key

gotga by the.......OO's

[jimi'shemi291]

Since we touched upon the subject of movie damsels-in-distress, here's diminutive Fay Wray with her '27 Packard. Cordial and considerate, Fay was one of the busiest and hardest working stars in Hollywood in the '20s and early '30s, even modeling fine fashions! She was quite versatile, more than capable of depth, and critics notably praised her RARE portrayals of "bad" women! A spate of vulnerable roles in the early '30s got her the label, "Hollywood's Scream Queen." (In reality, Fay Wray's scream has probably been pirated as often as Sheb Wooley's "Private Wilhelm scream"!) LOL! But gracious Fay did not complain publicly of type casting.

Though the general Mary Pickford model fell out of public favor in the mid-'30s, Wray was ever grateful for her time in the spotlight. After years in England and rearing a family, Fay returned to films in supporting roles and last appeared in a 1980 movie. Born in 1907 in Wray County, Alberta, she passed on, just shy of 97 years, in 2004. Her career had spanned six decades.

(Notably, fully one HALF of Fay Wray's many movies wrapped BEFORE the one film she's best remembered for: RKO's "King Kong" of March 1933 release.)

[Vintageride]

Great pic and narrative about Fae Wray. She certainly had great taste in automobiles.

'28 526 convertible coupe (body # 329). Eight lug wheels are the giveaway.

Vintageride

[jimi'shemi291]

THANKS, VintageRide! When knows the background, it's hard
not to love and respect her, as an actress and human being.

Unless I am mistaken, the below "damsel-in-distress" shot
is from the silent "Perils of Pauline" series of short films.



But as the sound era dawned, Canadian-American actress Fay Wray was
always knee-deep in one type of zoo-doo or another! We ALL remember
her screaming her lungs out in RKO's 1933 blockbuster, "King Kong."



Photos thanks to the Life magazine archives.








But, here she is with Joel McCrea in the film
version of H. Rider Haggard's "The Most
Dangerous Game," 1932. Public domain,
but thanks to Wikipedia and the WikiMedia
Commons project! BTW, some of the
"Kong" sets did triple-duty for "Kong"
and "Son of Kong," as well as "Game."