Expert: Mel - 6/27/2006

Question
Mel,

So sorry about that.  I realized that after I sent you the email but the site wouldn't let me write you back because it hasn't been 3 days.  Anyway, see if this works...

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g255/budred8fan/DSC00740.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g255/budred8fan/DSC00737.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g255/budred8fan/DSC00736.jpg

Thanks so much for looking...hope it works!

Cheyenne

Answer
Hello again Cheyenne,

It has been absolutely fascinating trying to put names to these wonderful old photographs and I'm pleased to tell you that I have had some limited success. I've been able to identify one film, make a good guess at a second, and not really got anywhere with the third. So, one and a half out of three.......not bad!

The covered wagons shot is definitely from a film called "Bad Boscomb" from 1945. It starred Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main and J. Carrol Naish. It was directed S. Sylvan Simon in black & white, with a running time of 112 minutes.

The ballroom shot could very possibly be the Balalaika Cafe set from the 1939 film "Balalaika", which starred Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey and Frank Morgan. It was directed by Reinhold Schünzel in black and white, with a running time of 102 minutes.

The third picture, in the bus station, I'm afraid I've had no real luck with. I could make a very wild guess at "Two Girls On Broadway", directed in 1940 by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Lana Turner, Joan Blondell and George Murphy. But, as I said, that would be purely a guess.

Hope that's of some help to you. Cheers......Mel.