THE SLANT BOARD

Myrna Loy

What a useful and necessary piece of studio equipment. Not only helping the stars to relax between takes, THE SLANT BOARD also kept costumes wrinkle-less .

Sometimes  it was extremely difficult to sit anyway – check out Jean  Harlow’s white satin dress in “Dinner at Eight.”!

Constance Bennett, Gregory La Cava.THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI – apparently the first time the slant board was used.

 

 

Jean Harlow. DINNER AT EIGHT

 

 

 

Joseph Cotten, George Cukor, Ingrid Bergman. GASLIGHT

 

Katharine Hepburn, Walter Plunkett.SEA OF GRASS

 

Judy in A STAR IS BORN

 

Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland.ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

 

 

Roy Del Ruth, Alice Faye.ON THE AVENUE.

 

 

 

Susan Hayward. THE LOST MOMENT.

 

 

Lena Horne.

 

 

Jeanette MacDonald.

 

Ethel Merman. CALL ME MADAM

 

The stars of LOVELY TO LOOK AT.

 

A scene from SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN. Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) will soon be costarring with Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen).

 

The stars of THE OPPOSITE SEX

 

4 responses »

  1. As important as anything else on a set. I was surprised years ago on a set tour of Guiding Light to see why the rich characters always looked so rich!

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