Paramount 1987

Also! Who is the lady in red, from row far left?

Also, where is Norma Desmond ? Without her there wouldn't be any Paramount Studio.

Link has all the actors listed by placement in the pic.

No fun, R3!

Makes me sad that all of them are dead now.

FF R3

Scott Baio isn’t dead.

Leonard Nimoy is smoking hot.

That isn't Frances Dee, OP, it's Mrs. Joel McCrea.

[quote] I love how Burt Lancaster and Bruce Dern are standing as far away from Scott Baio as possible

Or one might say Scott Baio is standing as far away as possible from Burt Lancaster and Bruce Dern.

Actually I expect everybody had their place assigned. Interesting photo.

If you're too busy to read the list, the older man in the Sunglasses was 40s/ 50s movie hunk Victor Mature. He did a lot of gladiator movies.

I doubt someone assigned Rhea Perlman to the back row.

I thought William Shatner was John Laroquette for a second and wondered why he looked so short.

There are only a few I can't recognize, like the lady behind Danson, who I can't see. Is it ONJ?

Martha Raye, r1.

I'm amused and slightly proud that I knew everyone in the group. Except for the saggy butt, it's not so bad being an older mo.

for Mature audiences...

Please note DL fave Olivia de Havilland, aka Miss Schuester.

Robert Stack is making a face and it made me laugh.

Sad to see ONJ and Cindy Williams standing next to each other, knowing they would die within six months of each other in 35 years.

Dana Andrews is in the photo but not Dana Plato ??? C'mon, man !

[quote]I'm amused and slightly proud that I knew everyone in the group.

I did a quick once over and identified only15, and I'm in my early 60s. But then I'm not very interested in celebrities.

Kirk & Spock could not actually be further apart.

No one is standing in front of Charlton Heston. They're afraid of getting injured by all that wood crashing to the ground.

This one is easier for me than the MGM one that gets posted sometimes. The only ones I couldn't get were the people I couldn't see very well like ONJ and Buddy Rogers, but also DeNiro, because that really doesn't look like him.

Debra Winger can't even do a group photo without acting like a nutcase.

There was a Paramount 90th anniversary shot for Vanity Fair and it’s difficult to find a high quality version of it online. The best I could find was on Catherine Bell’s twitter.

Some stars made a second appearance, the oldest I could see is Robert Stack and I think Jane Russell. Then there’s Cruise, Ford, Caan, Broderick, Williams, Marshall, Winkler, De Vito, Danson, Shatner and Beals. Possibly some other Golden Age ladies but the plastic surgery doesn’t help.

I kind of hate how the couples are draped over each other - Cruise and Cruz, Douglas and Jones, Klein and Holmes (!). And then I love how Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie don’t share a frame.

Whoever is leaning on Stallone has had sunglasses photoshopped onto their heads, r24.

Sorry, their head, not heads. They do not have two heads.

Robert De Niro looks awfully schlubby r23. And only a few years later in Goodfellas he looked handsomely suited and booted.

R25 Sharon Stone? Melanie Griffith?

Oh maybe it's Melanie, r28. I wondered if it was Cybill.

Lol @Charlton Heston serving up Michael Schmidt realness.

Bruh, you couldn't find an actual coat/sportsjacket for a fucking HISTORIC photograph?

Charlton Heston is fucking huge. I had no idea he was shaped like a tank. He's sitting next to Ernie Borgnine in the 1990s photo and makes him look small.

Did not recognize Buddy Rogers in there!

One would think that someone like Harry Dean Stanton would be a gentleman and surrender his seat to Dame Olivia de H.

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That is the most attractive pic I have ever seen of Penny Marshall.

Tom Cruise looks like he's smelling cookies. And WTF with the red cable knit sweater?

Where the fuck is Betty Hutton?

Elizabeth Taylor looks good.

OP, you are right. Frances Dee looks fantastic. But she was long term married to that babe Joel McCrea.

Ryan O’Neal- stud

Molly Ringwald- the palest thing I’ve ever seen

Danny DeVito’s Reeboks- A++

Deforest Kelley- Best Dressed

James Caan- old, but most fuckable here

Why is Andrew McCarthy judging Dame Olivia's 'do?

How can he *not*, r40?

I can't for the life of me figure out how they came up with this bizarre and insulting configuration and positioning of the stars. Why isn't Olivia seated?? Was it just first come, first served?

Also, wondering if some of Paramount's biggest stars Bing Crosby, Veronica Lake, Claudette Colbert, Alan Ladd, Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts and Betty Hutton had already passed?

Except for Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Betty Hutton, R42, they were all long gone. And those gals might have been bedridden by 1986. Not everyone was still riding a bike at 103 like Dame Olivia.

Bing Crosby and Veronica Lake were long dead. Claudette Colbert was still around and still working but for some reason couldn't make it. Marlene Dietrich was a bedridden recluse in Paris. Paulette Goddard was in poor health in Switzerland. Maybe Betty Hutton wasn't invited.

Maybe they were afraid that Betty Hutton would bring the crazy. Is that Zsa Zsa Gabor between Leonard Nimoy and Ryan O'Neal?

What about Mae West and Gloria Swanson? Was they still among the living?

Dead and dead r46. Cary Grant had also died the year before this picture was taken.

I'm standing with my cunt ex-wife (Debra), my beloved lost love (Liz McGovern), and my secret career idol (Nimoy).

But I'm still the only one with Oscar Gold!

R1, I think that’s Martha Raye.

That’s what it looks like, R13.

No M, G and J?

We were just outside the frame.

[quote]Sad to see ONJ and Cindy Williams standing next to each other, knowing they would die within six months of each other in 35 years.

I'll just bet that was exactly what they were thinking about in that photo too R19!

We're still here!

The Paramount 100 photo from 2012 proves that less is more. The presence of directors and executives adds nothing, and actually adds as a dilution, as do stars like Johnny Knoxville, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Justin Bieber.

Paramount 100 with name tags.

Robin Williams could not stay still enough to face the camera for a damn photo? That was his ADHD I guess. He must have seen a shiny object, or maybe Matthau farted.

Let those Hollywood whores come crawlin' back to Broadway. Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope.

Again in the Paramount 100 photo the positioning of the stars seems so arbitrary and, in some cases, disrespectful to some of the older people.

I'm really curious of anyone has any insight into who makes the decisions and how they're formulated. Does it come up in any of the accompanying articles?

So incredibly sad r55. The changes from 1987 are so stark and disappointing.

::: rolling eyes at the 100th Anniversary Picture :::

Spock and (young) Kirk front and center together in r55. Nice.

Karl Urban looks great there.

At first glance I thought Harrison Ford had his legs spread incredibly wide, but it was an optical illusion with the other guy’s leg.

Dana Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor weren't Paramount stars at all but they starred together in Paramount's Elephant Walk (1954).

Ryan O'Neil could get it in his day.

[quote]Ryan O'Neil could get it in his day.

And did.

My man Gregory Peck behind Penny Marshall!

So disrespectful!

R67

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The big box-office stars should be in the front; the B-Graders at the back.

[quote] Ryan O'Neil

Ryan O'Neal (now aged 80)

I like the little constellation of Molly Ringwald, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Bronson, Mark Harmon, and Janet Leigh. But Dorothy should be next to Bob Hope.

Legend goes that, in the 80s, employees were able to steal props, costumes, and other memorabilia by tossing the items over Paramount’s wall adjacent to Hollywood Forever, evading security. After exiting the studio gates, they’d go next door into the cemetery and retrieve the stolen property. (This was before security cameras were omnipresent.)

[quote]Not everyone was still riding a bike at 103 like Dame Olivia.

She wasn't riding a bike at 103, either. It's just that some fucking Scientologist asshole (who I know in real life, sadly) posted a photo of her from when she was 92, I believe, on her 100th birthday, and said it was a new photo, and everyone believed it.

She was still very impressively active until her mid 90s, but per the attorneys who worked with her on the lawsuit a few years ago, needed help to get around. It's in one of the threads about the lawsuit on here.

[quote]Also, wondering if some of Paramount's biggest stars Bing Crosby, Veronica Lake, Claudette Colbert, Alan Ladd, Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts and Betty Hutton had already passed?

Crosby, Lake, Ladd, and Tufts were all long dead.

Paulette Goddard was very sick in 1987, with both emphysema and cancer. She stayed in Switzerland and I don't think ever came back to the U.S. after becoming ill.

Betty Hutton had made a little bit of a comeback in the early 1980s but then left entertainment altogether by 1983, I think. That's when she went back to college. Even if they knew where she was, she may not have said yes to appearing.

The only one you listed that should have been there was Claudette Colbert, who was still acting and nominated for an Emmy that very year, won a Golden Globe in 1988, and was a Kennedy Center honoree in 1989.

Did Paramount really ever have many long-contract stars? I only think of Crosby, Hope and Lamour for their Road pictures, Betty Hutton and then Lake and Ladd, all mostly during the WWII years. And before that Mae West, Dietrich and Carole Lombard (what a trio!) in the early 1930s. But the Paramount roster was never as iconic as MGM's, was it?

Paramount Pictures during the silent era was virtually untouchable when it came to its roster of talent: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Clara Bow, etc., And it continued to prosper as it transitioned to sound and added the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Mae West, Claudine Colbert, William Powell, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, etc.

But Paramount ran afoul of antitrust laws in the 1940s, and had to scale back production and pare down its roster of contract players as it divested itself of its theater chains and its practice of block booking and preselling films.

LOL at Scott Baio

And how old exactly is Micheal Imperioli? He looks middle-aged in a photo from 1987

[quote] Paramount ran afoul of antitrust laws in the 1940s, and had to scale back production and pare down its roster of contract players as it divested itself of its theater chains and its practice of block booking and preselling films.

I thought ALL the studios ran afoul of antitrust laws. And it was around 1952.

Moi celebrating my 100th!

R79, 1938 was when the US Dept of Justice filed antitrust lawsuits against Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Loew's (MGM), RKP, Warner Bros, Columbia, Universal, and United Artists. All were found guilty of conspiring to illegally fix motion picture prices and monopolize film distribution. On appeal, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, who sustained those rulings in United States vs Paramount, 1948.

All eight defendants were collectively referred to as the "Paramount Defendants" and their consent were collectively known as the "Paramount Consent Decrees," with Parmount's coming in 1949, Columbia's, Universal's, and UA's in 1950, Warner Bros' and Fox's in 1951, and Loew's in 1952.

The Hollywood Heritage Museum is small but has heart and definitely worth a visit.

Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Mia Farrow, Ali MacGraw, Jack Lemmon, Babs, Clint Eastwood, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant, Audrey Hepburn couldn't make it?

How about Carole Lombard?

[quote] Babs

Paramount couldn't afford her appearance fee.

How about her, r84? Yesiree.

I would've been there, R84, but my plane was a little late!

Fuck.

ONJ is leaning down to flirt with Ted Danson.

Livvy you tart!