#screen legend

• In San Francisco in the 1850s, a city where gold fever has left shipowners short-handed, Bat Morgan (Cagney), a sailor come ashore, is robbed and nearly shanghaied aboard another ship. Managing to escape, he sticks around town to pay back those responsible and then to take a cut in the action in the vice district. He organized the various gambling houses (and other forms of vice implied but, for Code reasons, not explicitly shown) into a consolidated enterprise in alliance with a corrupt city boss, Jim Daley (King), and thereby comes into conflict with a crusading newspaper run by Jean Barrat (Lindsay), the daughter of the recently murdered publisher, and idealistic editor Charles Ford (Woods). (Warner Bros)

1919: American silent film actress Mary Thurman on the cover of Photoplay. She was well-known as one of Mack Sennett’s "Bathing Beauties" and a prominent comedic and dramatic star of the era.

1930s: Pesnicak Uranium glass perfume bottle. Because it contains small amounts of uranium dioxide, the frosted glass will glow a vivid, neon green when exposed to ultraviolet (UV/blacklight) radiation.

1943: Vintage World War II-era cover of Veronica Lake on Screenland magazine.

By the late 1940s, Lake's career began to decline. She made only one film in the 1950s, but had several guest appearances on television. She returned to the big screen in the film Footsteps in the Snow (1966), but the role failed to revitalize her career.

☆ The U.S. Treasury Department listed her as the highest-salaried American woman in 1946 and 1947, and she earned more than $3 million during her career.

1929: Josephine Dunn on the cover of Motion Picture magazine. At age 14 and a 5 ft 5 in tall blonde, Dunn started out as a member of the chorus at the Winter Garden Theatre.