Halloween Cheesecake: 15 Pictures

Yesterday, I re-posted a 2010 entry of mine with Clara Bow in a host of Halloween-themed promotional pictures. Recently I found another from the set, and it inadvertently started off a lengthy search for Halloween props reused repeatedly in pictures over the years:

That mask and the pumpkins from the set I posted yesterday were also used in a series of pics with Nancy Carroll:

Another popular set of props originated with promotionals for I Married A Witch (1942):

Those pumpkins show up all over the place:

Virginia Welles

Ann Savage

 

And three with Ann Miller, taken at least a decade after the Veronica Lake film:

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In this one, Ann is posed with the same striped cat that was in the Elaine Stewart picture I posted earlier this month.

Speaking of cats, Ava Gardner and June Knight have the same one, painted differently, and I think the same broom with a different rein:

This all started a few days ago when Thomas, in comments of that Elaine Stewart post, brought up the hilarious cats that show up in these Halloween cheesecake pics. I went searching for a specific photo I was looking for and found these two, which have the same wiry black thing shaped vaguely like a cat:

Joyce Holden

 

Jane Adams and Patricia Alphine

And finally, right back where we began, with Clara Bow and those freakish cats I went looking for in the first place:


You’re welcome for the nightmares.

10 comments

  1. Holy crap. That second cat in the last picture looks angry. I’d be pissed too if somebody shot and stuffed me just to stick in a photo, Clara Bow or not.

    1. Those cats…they don’t look like they were ever real, though I suspect they are actually some Victorian-era “taxidermied” cats the prop guys found in some shop.

  2. I would really love to have been a fly on the wall during some of these photo sessions. “Okay, Ann, now turn your head and whisper a secret to the pumpkins. A sexy secret, of course!” “Alright, Jane and Patrica, I want you to look up and smile like your prom dates just rang the doorbell–who cares if it’s witch-like, we all know this just looks like a page from a cheesy sewing book, anyway.”

    1. Ha! What I wouldn’t give to know what they told June Knight that caused her to get that particular look on her face.

  3. The Hollywood version of sticking your head through a hole so’s you can look like a muscle man, or a bathing beauty. Except with stuffed animals.

  4. Yeah, those cats ARE scary. Is it just me but do some of these women look a little familiar? To me Ann Savage looks like Helen Hunt and Joyce Holden could be Sarah Paulson’s sister.

    1. Ann Savage DOES look like Helen Hunt! I thought she really resembled Hunt in that Boston Blackie movie she was in. I had to look up Sarah Paulson, but I definitely see the resemblance, too.

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