Chuck Adamson


Biography

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Girls on the Beach - Lobby Card
Here is a Lobby Card from The Girls on the Beach (1965), starring the Beach Boys. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Movie Clip

Blue Bird, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) It's Against The Law! Opening in black & white from a Maurice Maeterlinck fantasy (thus seen as similar to the previous year’s The Wizard Of Oz), Shirley Temple and little bro Johnny Russell are woodcutters’ kids seeking a precious bird, Sybil Jason their bothersome friend, in 20th Century-Fox’s The Blue Bird, 1940.
Blue Bird, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) I Always Knew You Were A Fool! Just now transformed from the family cat and dog, Gale Sondergaard and Eddie Collins don’t agree on whether to aid the children (Shirley Temple as Mytyl, Johnny Russell as Tyltyl), guided by the spirit “Light” (Helen Ericson), in their search, in The Blue Bird, 1940, from a Maurice Maeterlinck story.
Blue Bird, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Lay-Dee-O Now in a dream in Technicolor having found their deceased grandparents (Cecilia Loftus, Al Shean) in their search for a certain bird of happiness, Shirley Temple as Mytyl (Johnny Russell as littler Tyltyl) offers her only song in the picture, a traditional, in 20th Century-Fox’s The Blue Bird, 1940.
Little Women (1994) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Know The Rules Evading a less interesting beau, Winona Ryder as Jo March at a society party in Civil War-era Concord, Mass., bumps (as will be her habit) into Christian Bale, as “Laurie,” the handsome, mysterious and affluent new neighbor who has fascinated her and her sisters, including Meg (Trini Alvarado), in director Gillian Armstrong’s Little Women, 1994.
Little Women (1994) -- (Movie Clip) The Most Elegant Family In Concord Reading together from magazine serials, using their adopted performance names, in what they consider the “March Family Theater,” sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy (Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Claire Danes and Kirsten Dunst) speculate about the future and their new neighbor (Christian Bale), in Little Women, 1994.
Mame (1974) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for the Warner Bros. production of the Jerry Herman Broadway musical with Angela Lansbury, with Lucille Ball in the title role, Mame, 1974.
Cold Sassy Tree (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Grandpa Was A Buster Young Neil Patrick Harris narrates, Joan Tewkesbury directing the script she adapted from the Olive Ann Burns novel, introducing Richard Widmark, Faye Dunaway, Frances Fisher and others, in the well-received TV movie Cold Sassy Tree, 1989.
Cold Sassy Tree (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Hers Was A Different Tune From the Olive Ann Burns novel, in 1906 middle Georgia, young Will (Neil Patrick Harris) doesn't quite grasp the arrangement between Love Simpson (Faye Dunaway), and his recently-widowed local merchant grandfather, her employer and now husband, in the TV movie Cold Sassy Tree, 1989.
Fort Apache (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Not A Martinet New commanding officer Thursday (Henry Fonda) reading his orders to officers, commending Michael (John Agar) for his uniform, tilting with York (John Wayne) about Indians, and reminiscing with Collingwood (George O'Brien), in John Ford's Fort Apache, 1948.
Playtime -- (Movie Clip) Boston For Breakfast M. Hulot (star and director Jacques Tati) in and out of things, as his adventure along the Champs Elysee takes him to a travel agency, Americans everywhere, in Playtime (1967),Telluride Film Festival honoree 2006.
Europa '51 -- (Movie Clip) I'll Always Be With You Waiting on her hospitalized son (Sandro Franchina), Irene (Ingrid Bergman) learns from friend Andrea (Ettore Giannini) that his injury may not have been accidental, in Roberto Rossellin's Europa '51, 1952.

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