The Nitrate Divaさんのイラストまとめ

Truly dangerous to look up anything in an old film exhibitors' journal, because I quickly get caught up in just how cool the ads were.

E.g. this funny campaign imagining the CAPTAIN BLOOD editors agonized at having to cut any of it.

Not a very good film if I remember correctly, but this trade ad for THE LADY AND THE MONSTER does a swell riff on Charles Allan Gilbert's "All Is Vanity."

A trade ad for the announced pre-Code adaptation of THE GLASS KEY—entitled GRAFT and starring Gary Cooper—which was never made. #NoirAlley

1931 movie theater designs by Nat Karson for "Remodeling the Period Style into the Ultra-Modern":

Portraits of MGM stars by Vincentini for the studio's big 1929-30 releases announcement in Exhibitors Herald World:
Garbo
Gilbert
Keaton
Crawford

Feodor Chaliapin Jr. in MOONSTRUCK vs. his father, the celebrated basso profundo, as Don Quixote. #TCMParty

Some old Hollywood bat ladies for the Halloween season:
Virginia Bruce
Nancy Carroll
Mae West
Lilian Bond