Cinerama 1940s

1940s full page movie ads from Life and Saturday Evening Post magazines, carefully extracted and collected.

Glam-O-Rama

Nothing sold "pretty" like Hollywood did in the 1940s and 50s.

Screen Dream: Pillow Talk

Rock Hudson + Doris Day = PERFECTION. Screen shots from 1959's "Pillow Talk".

Oh-h... Thanks!

Eight ads for colorful confections of the 1940s and 1950s.

Christmas Noir?

Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin in a poster for 1944's "Christmas Holiday". Is it a thriller? Is it film noir? Is it a fireside romance? A "noir-thriller-fireside romance" perhaps....

Pretty Ladies & Pretty Things

Whether photographed or illustrated, nothing sells beauty like beauty.

Royal Quench For Thirsty Starlets

All the 1940s starlets agree: RC quenches a Hollywood thirst.

Rita Hayworth Recommends...

Brach's Toffee Candies and Lustre Creme. It's what all the red-headed startlets of the 1940s and 50s buy.