Some unidentified models for Sunday

Richard Harrison

Ed Haley (identification courtesy of Brian E.)

Dale Pruitt

Fun in the sand

Photos by Daniel Alan

Al fresco

Dressing the part

Fashions in swimwear

Shirts Optional 14

Bill Carter works out. Photo by Floyd J. Hopkins 

Jeff Chandler and Kim Novak filming JEANNE EAGELS (1957). Photo by Robert W. Coburn

Dane Clark in DESTINATION TOKYO (1943). Photo by Henry Waxman

Cecil B. DeMille in 1940, aged 58. Photo by Don English

Beach antics

Beach body #foundfriday

Academy Founders 15

N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927. 

15. Sid Grauman (1879-1950) of the Producers Branch, at a typical ceremony at his Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Here, (Richard) Red Skelton (1913-1997) signs the pavement with his wife Edna in 1942.

In his day, Sid Grauman was as famous as any of the stars whose films showed in his Los Angeles theaters: the Chinese, the Egyptian, the Million Dollar, and the Metropolitan.

Grauman's Chinese Theatre particularly captured people's imaginations: built on land that had once belonged to Francis X. Bushman, it opened in May 1927 with Cecil B. DeMille's THE KING OF KINGS. (Jeanie MacPherson, #29, was the film’s screenwriter; the cast was a Who's Who of 1920s' Hollywood,)

In 1949, the Academy awarded Grauman an honorary Oscar as a "Master showman, [one] who raised the standard of exhibition of motion pictures."

Photos by Nasib Studio

One of a trio of hard-to-trace subjects by Nasib Studio: dancers André Pallo and Anna Braile (active 1923-26).

Klar Magnus as Ruby Stone in CHIPPIES (1929).

Raye Ellis and La Rue in UNDER SEA BALLET, part of the program associated with the film SINS OF THE CHILDREN (1930).

Tatters

Bill Lamm by Bruce of Los Angeles

Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper filming HALF A BRIDE (1928)

Jerry Antes (1927-2019) by Edward Cronenweth

More first impressions

Bob Wainwright and Bob Jensen

I’ve written about the earliest AMG duals, and the first dual album/catalogue (ZF, covering the studio’s early days): with ZN, Bob Mizer fashioned an up-to-date group, featuring some stalwarts and introducing some fresh faces.

Dale Curry and Larry Carr

Tom Mathews and Larry Carr

This is a seriously weird picture … beautiful, though

Charles Farrell on his European honeymoon

Academy Founders 14

N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927. 

14. Charles Christie (1880-1955) of the Producers Branch. The photo is by Witzel Studio.

With his brother Al (Alfred Ernest Christie, 1881-1951), Christie was an early comedy producer. Like some of his fellow Academy founders, Charles Christie took an interest in the Motion Picture Relief Fund from its founding in 1921.

The Depression ultimately crippled the Christies' studio, after which Charles and Al focused on their real estate holdings.

More from Studio Arax

Helmut Riedmeier, London 1969

Arthur Robin, 

Professional Mr. Universe 1957

Georges Schiffelers

Gaston Ségaert, Trouville 1953

François Testard