Now That’s What I Call Retro

Louise Brooks in Prix de Beauté (1930)

Clara Bow in Kid Boots (1926)

This Day in Buster… July 2, 1922 The Democrat & Chronicle states of “My Wife’s Relations”—"It is said that the picture ends with an exciting acrobatic feat that has not been equaled in Buster’s previous 'stunts.'" However, the scene was missing in the version most fans know today.

三船敏郎 // MIFUNE TOSHIRO 銀嶺の果て // Snow Trail (1947)

The Invisible Man (1933) Dir. James Whale

1931 theatrical release poster for the horror film Frankenstein, directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff.

Charlie Chaplin, 1924. By Nickolas Muray.

Shanghai actress Xu Lai 徐來 (ca. 1930s)

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This was to be a KING KONG short parody. It was never finished.

King Kong (1933)

Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. The series was originally broadcast in the United States on the National Broadcasting Company's Blue Network, beginning on November 28, 1932, and ending on May 22, 1933. 

Stanley Kubrick, 1948. Arthur Rothstein. Archival digital print.

Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone in publicity stills for The Mark of Zorro (1940)

1940. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & James Stewart. "The Philadelphia story" is a American romantic comedy film.