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Here’s Donald Gordon — that handsome lad to the left and creator of our Donald Gordon Collection of marvelous informal photos of Forties Hollywood personalities — with another of his star pals. (By the way: Can anyone identify the make and model of that marvelous vintage auto parked curbside on the right?) Back to today’s […]
He was billed as “King of the Cowboys,” but here’s a look at Roy Rogers off the set. And look at the background. It gives you a sense of what Hollywood looked like back then. John Wayne once badmouthed Rogers, saying he wasn’t a “real” cowboy. Then again, Wayne wasn’t a real soldier — he […]
Here’s another snapshot from the legendary collection of our late pal Donald Gordon. Last week we showed a picture Donald had snapped of Dennis Morgan and many of our readers were quick to identify the Warner Brothers star. Today’s mystery man had a career as a leading man in the early 1940s and then turned […]
Hello again. Joe Morella and Frank Segers back to share another photo from the Donald Gordon Collection. This illustrates that off screen, while just as beautiful as they were on film many stars were not THAT recognizable. Without their makeup (and in the case of many male stars like Bing Crosby and Humphrey Bogart, their […]