The Kobal Collection Movie And Tv Archive

Citizen Kane, Hollywood's greatest movie of all time celebrates its 75th anniversary on May 1st. Written, directed, produced and starring a 26 year old Orson Welles, it shocked Hollywood to the core with its thinly veiled portrayal of the world's most famous newspaper baron and his empire. #citizenkane #orsonwelles

I'm back! Sorry for being away for so long! So lets get started: If you could look inside one folder within our archive what one would you choose? A film or a film star?

Grace Kelly by Bud Fraker at Paramount studios. #gracekelly

Dorothy Dandridge was a movie star during the studio era. Not only did she have to battle sexism, ageism and racism, but she was also told she was not black enough or white enough for most roles. She couldn't win! She did manage to get enough roles to give her recognition, most notably in 'Carmen Jones', 'Porgy and Bess' and 'Island in the Sun'. She was born on this day in 1922. #dorothydandridge

The wonderful Hedy Lamarr not only was a major movie star and screen goddess, she was also responsible for co-designing the technology that we now use in our mobile phones. She shot to fame appearing nude in a Czech movie. When her new boss Louis B Mayer found out about it he asked her if she looked good in the movie. She replied "Of course" to which he responded "Then we don't have a problem". She was born on this day in 1914. #hedylamarr

Happy Birthday Monica Vitti! #monicavitti

Ann Rutherford made her name playing Polly Benedict in the Andy Hardy movies, but she cemented her place in Hollywood playing Scarlett O'Hara's sister in 'Gone With the Wind'. Here she is in the driving seat (with Evelyn Keyes as her passenger) driving off the 'Gone With the Wind' set. She was born on this day in 1917. #annrutherford #gonewiththewind

Happy Future Day everyone! Hope you're all watching the 'Back to the Future' trilogy today. #bttf #october21th2015

Rita Hayworth in glorious Kodachrome color! It was taken by Columbia's photographer Robert Coburn. #ritahayworth

Happy Birthday Julie Andrews! Seen here on the set of the fantastic 'The Sound of Music'. #julieandrews

Norma Shearer has a night on the town in a gold lamé jacket. She was born on this day in 1902. #normashearer

The Last Goddess Blog are trying to track down all photographs taken of Marlene Dietrich for her star files at Paramount. If you are a collector take a look at the blog, it's very informative and an interesting project. Project P1167 :-) #projectp1167 #marlenedietrich

Olivia de Havilland is 99 years young today! Here she is with regular co-star and friend Errol Flynn practising for the movie 'Captain Blood'. Happy Birthday Ms De Havilland! #oliviadehavilland #livinglegend

Danielle Darrieux celebrates her 98th birthday today. She is now the eldest French movie star and has starred in international hits every decade since the 1930s. Happy Birthday! #danielledarrieux

Our Victoria Sponge cakes at this years Fotofringe. Yummy yummy in my tummy! A big thank you to all those who stopped by our stand :-) #fotofringe

Our founder John Kobal loved women. Well only leading ladies from the golden era. One of which was Bette Davis. We have thousands of pictures of her. And just like I did a few weeks ago with Joan Crawford, here is just half of one of the many portrait files we have on her. We have files on all her movies too. Born today in 1908. #bettedavis

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Two reasons why we love classic Hollywood movies. All these photos were taken by C.S.Bull on December 7th 1944 for the movie 'Without Love'. Tracy was born today in 1900.