Here’s Norma and Chester for you. A still from The Divorcee 1930.
Marion Davies and Charles King in The Five O’Clock Girl (1929). One of the very first MGM musicals. The most intriguing part of the story is that it remains unreleased. Nobody seems to be able to tell whether it was completed or not.

Swedish poster to Let Us Be Gay (1930). The Swedish title translates “The Art of Keeping a Husband”.
Swedish poster to The Czar of Broadway (1930). The Swedish title translates as “The Czar of New York” Well, close but no cigar!
A comedy from 1930, Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown, music by Abe Lyman’s band, 100% Technicolor, what more can you ask for? Naturally it’s a lost film. Darn!

Olive Borden looking uncool because the photographer couldn’t tell the difference between a peppy ukelele and a silly mandolin. Even a child knows the mandolin has eight strings as opposed to the ukelele’s four. Lesson: Twice the amount doesn’t always make things better!












