Stardust Memories

A note from Peter Ford

I'm often accused of living in the past, but I treasure my memories of growing-up in a time and place that no longer exists - the mythical land of Hollywood's Golden Age. Cinema has in the past and will in the future, shape our culture. It is a medium that is terribly underrated by most people today. Sadly, the films and the luminaries who participated in them from that bygone time have left out collective consciousness. With few examples today, it is those films of yesterday that hold value for me. I thought I'd share a few photos of the many I have of some of the people I had the pleasure of knowing. Most are gone now, but their cinematic legacy will be there forever for those who care to find it. Some I knew but never got around to asking (Clark Gable and John Wayne come to mind) - but for the rest, take a step back in time and enjoy a visit with some friends and acquaintances who I hope will become, on film at least, friends of yours too.
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Ida Lupino
Sydney Poitier
Jimmy Durante
Marion Davies
Jimmy Stewart
Norma Shearer
Fred Astaire
Angela Landsbury
Anne Francis
Mickey Rooney
Art Linkletter
Nancy Davis
Ralph Bellamy
Claire Trevor
Jamie Farr
Paul Henreid
Melvyn Douglas
Burt Lancaster

Carolyn Jones
Shelly Winters
Gilbert Roland
Steve Allen
Lauren Bacall
Hope Lange
Lloyd Nolan
Edmond O'Brien
Pat Boone
John Ford, director
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
Evelyn Keyes and Ann Rutherford
Kirk Douglas
George Stevens, Director
Robert Stack
Janet Leigh and Gloria DeHaven
George Murphy
Dean Jagger
Audrey Totter
Judy Holliday
Jon Hall
Danny Kaye
Royal Dano
Jackie Coogan
Alice Faye
Chad Everett
John Howard
Paul Fix
Christopher Plummer
Hugh O'Brien
Buddy Ebsen
James Whitmore
Julie Harris
Denver Pyle
Julian Blaustein, Producer
Vincent Sherman, Director
Terry Moore
Karl Malden
Angela Lansbury and Delbert Mann, Director
Chuck Connors (with Peter Ford)
Jay Silverheels
Ann Miller
Donna Reed
Ethel Waters
Patricia Neal
Edgar Buchanan
Ricardo Montalban
Esther Williams
Victor Mature
June Allyson (with Van Johnson)
Judy Holliday
Gilbert Roland
Adolph Menjou
Eddie Albert
Robert Cummings
Lillian Gish
Jane Powell
Walter Wanger, producer
Van Johnson
Olivia DeHavilland
Hildegard Knef
Roddy McDowall
Richard Thorpe
David Wayne
Nunnally Johnson , writer
Ernest Borgnine
Sally Eilers & Richard Arlen
Stanley Kramer, director & Julie Harris
Irving Berlin, songwriter
Richard Rodgers, songwriter
Pat O'Brien
Elvis Presley
Van Heflin
Dean Martin
Dane Clark
Curt Jurgens
Vincent Price
Mary Martin
Ann Rutherford
Loretta, Georgiana, Polly and Sally Young
Lew Ayres
Claude Rains
Eleanor Parker
Ruth Hussey
Geraldine Page
David O. Selznick, producer
Martin Landau
Forrest Tucker
Darryl F. Zanuck, producer
William Powell
Ronald Reagan
Vivien Leigh
Edward G. Robinson
Ray Milland
Jane Wyman
Donald O'Connor
Mary Astor
Gene Kelly
Jean Simmons
Kathryn Grayson
Myrna Loy
Barbara Stanwyck
Bette Davis
Laurence Olivier
Eddie Cantor
Lucille Ball
Herbert Marshall
Helen Hayes
George Burns & Gracie Allen
Sophie Tucker
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Debbie Reynolds
Hedy Lamar
Fred MacMurray
Jack Benny
Walter Pigeon
Frank Sinatra
Ginger Rogers
Lana Turner
James Cagney
Greer Garson
Jack Lemmon
Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck
Rita Hayworth
Jennifer Jones
Bing Crosby
Ava Gardner
Bob Hope
Cary Grant
Dorothy Lamour
Mae West
Montgomery Clift
Joel McCrae
Burt Lancaster
Marlon Brando
Joan Fontaine
Alan Ladd
Elizabeth Taylor
Jane Russell
James Mason
Rhonda Flemming
Rock Hudson
Joan Blondell
Maureen O'Hara
Joan Crawrod
James Dean
Randolph Scott
David Niven
Shirley MacLaine
Gene Autry
Broderick Crawford
Rosalind Russell
Dick Powell
ImaWilliam Holden
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Henry Fonda
Jayne Mansfield