domenica 25 marzo 2012

Vecchie automobili e grandi star

Il mio amico Maxi, che mi parla sempre di cose interessanti, questa volta mi ha mandato una serie di vecchie fotografie dove un gran personaggio è in gara, quanto a bellezza, con la sua automobile. Chi è il vincitore?

Paulette Goddard, getting into  her  husband's (Charlie Chaplin)
Rolls-Royce Phantom II

Babe Ruth receiving a 1926 Auburn Roadster as a gift
 
 
 
Fatty Arbuckle and his 1919 Pierce Arrow
Harold Lloyd and wife Mildred Davis with their Buick

Johnny  Weissmuller with his  1932 Chevrolet

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in a 1914 Stutz Bearcat


Laurel and Hardy in their 1930 Series 30 Model 30-45 Buick Phaeton
Clark Gable with his 1932 Packard
Joan Crawford with her 1929 Ford Town Car
Al Jolson with his  Mercedes
 Jean Harlow with her Cadillac
Joan Crawford (again) and her 1930 (or 1931) Cadillac Fleetwood

Carl Brisson behind the wheel of his 1934Isotta Fraschini
                                       
 Lilian Harvey and her Mercedes


...                                                 Erroll Flynn and Auburn Roadster
Cary Grant parked on the  fender of his 1941 Buick Century
Rita Hayworth with her 1941 Lincoln Continental
Buck Jones with his 1933 Packard Special
Norwegian Olympic figure-skating champion, and Hollywood
star Sonja Henie, posing with her Cord 810

             Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew  Perry aka Stepin  Fetchit with his                           Cadillac Phaeton

                                  Joan Crawford (yes, again!) driving her 1933 Ford  roadster  

                                              James  Stewart with his  1936 Plymouth

                                                 Ginger Rogers and her 1937 Dodge

      Tyrone Power and post-war Jaguar

Robert  Montgomery with his  Cadillac Sport Phaeton

                             
Tyrone  Power with his Duesenberg

Cecil  B deMille with his  1937 Cord

Errol Flynn driving his  Packard

                Bing  Crosby giving rides around the studio lot in his
1939 Olds coupe  convertible

William Powell admires Gary Cooper's Duesy

Fra questi il mio preferito è Clark Gable, con la sua stupenda Packard. Se dovessi guidarla io, invece, preferirei la Ford roadster di Joan Crowford!
Ma è più comodo farmi scarrozzare da Giorgio, con la sua Jaguar E:



 

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