dangermousie | A multitude of classic, gorgeous movie stills

These are ~~all~~ mostly from the 'classic' movies of the late 1930s-1940s.

I just love black and white.

Behind the cut because there are over 30 pics here and I am trying to be kind to modem users. Definitely worth a look, though.

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland as a physician sold into slavery who becomes a pirate and the owner's niece who falls in love with him in the swashbuckling "Captain Blood:"

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert as a journalist and an escaped heiress in one of my all-time favorite movies, "It Happened One Night" (that won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Actor and Actress in 1934):

Robert Taylor and Lana Turner are a no-good gangster who just might develop a conscience and DA's daughter who falls for him in one of the earliest noirs, "Johnny Eager:"

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake as a hired killer and a woman he crosses paths with in "This Gun For Hire," the movie that made Ladd a star:

Ronald Colman (the man with the sexiest voice ever, IMO) as Sydney Carton in "Tale of Two Cities:"

James Cagney and the woman whose name I don't know in "The Roaring Twenties:"

Rita Hayworth as a slutty socialite and Tyrone Power as a doomed bullfighter in the spectacular (and actually in color) "Blood and Sand:"

Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane in Hitchcock's "Saboteur:"

Jean Arthur tries to bring Gary Cooper out of his despair in "Mr. Deeds goes to Town:"

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake (again. I like them) as a WWII veteran suspected of murder and the woman who believes him in "The Blue Dahlia:"

Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier are the haunted Maxim de Winter and his second wife in Hitchcock's Best Picture winner "Rebecca:"

Jimmy Stewart is an idealistic young Senator in one of my all-time favorites "Mr Smith Goes to Washington:"

Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews in the gorgeous "Laura:"

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame as a pair of lovers torn apart by suspicion in "In a Lonely Place:"

Lawrence Olivier and Merle Oberon are Heathcliff and Cathy in my favorite adaptation of "Wuthering Heights:"

Gary Cooper and Barbara Stawyck rediscover conscience and try to fight corruption in "Meet John Doe," the last of Capra's trilogy:

John Garfield and Lana Turner are sinful, doomed lovers in the classic noir "The Postman Always Rings Twice:"

Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman in my favorite Hemingway adaptation, "For Whom the Bell Tolls." They were personally approved by Hemingway himself:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are a pair of cynical idealists in "To Have and Have Not:"

Charles Boyer and Bette Davis conduct one of the most passionate movie affairs as a tormented Duc and a shabby governess, all without any kissing or confession of love in "All This and Heaven Too:"