Via letterheady:

Letterhead of Charlie Chaplin’s short-lived music publishing company.

Charlie Chaplin Music Publishing Company, 1916 | Submitted by Charles Burke

Still from Die Brücke, via vintagephoto

Buster Keaton, via vintagephoto

Via abbyjean:

A.L. Shafer, the head of photography at Columbia, took a photo that intentionally incorporated all of the 10 items banned by the Hays Code into one image. (via Sociological Images)

Left to right: Alfred Hitchcock, James Gregory, Vincent Price

Via vintagephoto; more Hitchcock here

By Jef Aérosol; previously

James Cagney shows Ed Sullivan how to do a James Cagney impression.

Via uncertaintimes:

Man Ray (1921)

Passport Photos

Nag on the Lake

Shooting the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion (1924), via The Blog of Record; more MGM lions here.

Via killingbambi (again), via theblogofrecord

Photograph by Cecil Beaton; not sure who the model is. Via Preik.

Via apatientboy:

Rod Serling talks censorship, art vs. commerce, selling out, and more in this brilliant interview with Mike Wallace from 1959 (just before The Twilight Zone premiered on television).

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Greta Garbo’s bookplate, via DRB.

Via capriquarius, via abirdfriend