"War Bond Newsreel" (1942) Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy during a War Bond parade, sitting up on the rear body ledge. The newsreel was made in Des Moines in 1942. A Des Moines Tribune photographer was on hand and shot a photo for the paper. Till we can find a copy of the Newsreel, I have an amateur photo also taken at the event as a place holder? |
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"The
Crystal
Ball" (1943): Later at a shooting gallery, Ray comes back to his car to find a lipstick message on the windshield. Later in the film Ray pulls onto a nighttime highway without looking and sideswipes a watermelon truck, and dozens of watermelons spill into the open Crosley, one of which knocks Ray out. (I don't think the vehicles actually touched.) The next day there's a newspaper article telling of the accident, saying that Ray was "driving his interim wartime vehicle". |
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"Abbott
and
Costello in Hollywood" (1945): |
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"This
Man's Navy" (1945): Staring Wallace
Beery, Tom Drake and James Gleason. Several members
have spoted in just one scene, Wallace Beery driving a
Crosley into a farmyard. However, in the next scene
he is driving a Ford convertible. |
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"The
Noose
Hangs High" (1948): |
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"Africa Screams" (1949): 49-50 CD Station wagon, Abbott & Costello Right at the end, Speedo, one of the richest guys in the world arrives at his own building in a chauffeured Crosley wagon. |
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"On the Town" (1949): Staring Gene
Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Betty Garrett. Three sailors on a
day of shore leave in New York City look for fun and
romance before their twenty-four hours are up. Rear
shot of CC Wagon shows up in one of street scenes driving
by. |
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"Shockproof"
(1949): Starting Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight,
John Baragrey. A Parole Officer falls in-love with his
client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and
he's determined to help her go straight despite her
interfering criminal boyfriend. Director: Douglas Sirk. Four spots a two tone CC sedan shows up in the Mexican border scene that go from roughly 1:01.18 to 1:01.50. Here is a short clip of the CC in action. |
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"Side Street"
(1950): Staring Harley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell. The main character Joe Norson, a letter carrier, has just gotten done stealing some money from a filing cabinet early in the movie. As he is crossing the street leaving the scene he walks in back of a postwar CC Crosley wagon. Unfortunately the car does not show up in the rest of the movie. |
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"Radar Secret
Service" (1950):
Staring John Howard, Adele Jergens and Tom Neal.
Looks like a notch or so below a B movie. G-men
track stolen Uranium-238 shipment using new radar
technology; they also recruit the girlfriend of a gang
member as an informant. Radar helps, but it takes an
undercover blonde to really get the goods on criminal
masterminds. Shows a 48 Crosley. |
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"Follow
the
Sun" (1951): |
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"Tokyo
File 212" (1951): A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. Has a 1947-48 Wagon in background. |
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"Toda Maquina" (1951): Nice scene of a 1950 Super Sports in traffic jam. 8 guys (including 2 cops) pick up the car with driver up and carry her out of the traffic jam. Lots of close up shots including a cop repeatedly leaning on the windshield, I cringed as it flexed knowing how weak the casting is in the standoffs. Link to YouTube clip, look at around 2:45 to 7:15. |
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"Singin' in the Rain"
(1952): Staring
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. A
silent film production company and cast make a difficult
transition to sound. A VC was reported but since the
movie is suppose to take place in 1927 I think this is the
wrong title. |
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"Without
Warning!" (1952): Quiet, unobtrusive LA citizen Carl Martin picks up look-a-likes for his estranged blonde wife and murders them with garden shears. What looks like a 1949-52 Wagon driveing by in background. |
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"Sudden
Fear" (1952) After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her. Rear shot of Hotshot or Supersports. |
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Boston Blackie: (1949-1953???) I got a report that either in one of the last Boston Blackie movies (1949) or possibly the TV program (1951-1953), the main character drove a Crosley Super Sports of or Hot Shot. Anybody remember this? It was reported that there were a few chase scenes where he used the handling of his car to great advantage. New info is that at least one car was built on a Super Sports or a HotShot frame but has entirely different body work. The current owner says this car was used in the 1950s television series but not the 1940s movies. I have seen pictures of the car but not the TV clip to verify. |
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"Three Ring Circus" (1954): A red 49 or 50 CD Sedan painted with black top so it looks like a convertible with the top up. Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
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"Miracle on
34th Street" - (1955 TV): CC Sedan parked on left side in parade scene. Only a little over a minute in to the movie, right after parade starts. This frame shot was from the TV show The 20th Century-Fox Hour release. Looks like they used the footage from the 1947 film as the back drop and put new actors over the canned footage but I didn't have the earlier version to check. It is only there for a frame or two so keep a close eye out. Click on image for full frame of movie. |
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"Code
3" - (1957 TV): Short lived series, a 1948 wagon made it into episode 1. |
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La mémoire courte - (1969
Documentary): Obscure documentary with a 39
Convertible Coupe. |
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"National
Lampoon's
Animal House" (1978): |
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"The
Long Summer of George Adams" (1982): |
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"Porky's
II,
the Next Day" (1983): |
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"Chances
Are" (1989): Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter. Ryan O'neil, Cybil Shepard, Robert Downey Jr I think the photo was just taken on the set not a grab from the film. This is member John Van Sickle's car and he sent me the pictures. I saw the movie before I knew there was a Crosley in it and missed it so watch carefully. |
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"Avalon"
(1990): |
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Running
Delilah (1993): Top agent Delilah (Kim
Cattrall) dies in a risky mission against weapon dealer
Alec Kasharian (Yorgo Voyagis). But she's revived with
high-tech medicine and artificial body parts.
Staring Kim Cattrall, Billy Zane. |
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Pete Droge: If You Don't Love
Me (I'll Kill Myself), Music
Video, (1994): 1947-48 cut down wagon used as
part of the backdrop in about 1 minute and 40
seconds. |
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"Gone
In 60 Seconds" (2000): |
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Car
Crazy, Ep. 1.01 2001-: Reality car show. Episode 1 shows a 1947 Roundside Pickup Episode 109 shows 1948 Crosley Pickup |
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A Decade to Remember (2007):
The 1950's Has a scene with Eisenhower's Crosley custom golf cart |
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"Synecdoche, New York"
(2008): Staring
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton and Michelle
Williams. A theater director struggles with his work, and
the women in his life, as he attempts to create a
life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part
of his new play. What looks like a 1951-52 CD Sedan
appears on one of their stage settings. |
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"My One and
Only" (2009): Taking place in 1953 a self-absorbed woman leaves her philandering band-leader husband and takes her two teen-aged sons across the country, searching for a new husband. Lots of nice vintage cars and trucks including a 1951-52 yellow Crosley sedan sitting by a drive-in restaurant. The Crosley got a fair amount of background time about 23 min 30 seconds into the movie. 3 frames from the scene to the right, notice the car hop on rollerskate. |
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American
Picker (2010-): Crosley appear in numerous episodes of this reality show, usually as a car sitting in the background or even on a shelf. Episode 1.02 featured Paul Gorrell and his large collection of Crosleys. Episode 1.10 shows a 1947-48 or early 1949 Wagon. |
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True
Detective (2014-19): TV Series 3rd season 5th
episode If You Have Ghosts - Episode aired February 1,
2019. In 1980, all hell breaks loose at the home of
Woodard, while in the present, Wayne and Roland reconnect
after Wayne makes a discovery. CD pickup in weeds. |
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Jay
Leno's Garage (CNBC) (2015-):
Ep. 4.08 - 1951-52 Super Sports and a Crofton, probably at Lane Motor Museum |
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America
in Color, Documentary Ep. 4 (2017-):
America in Color showcases all the key moments from the 1920's to 1960's. Episode 4 shows a 1949-52 Hotshot driving down the beach. |
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The
Cars That Made America Ep. 3 (2017): The history and influence of cars in America. Episode 3 has 1946-48 Crosley Sedan made into a drag car. |
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Passport
to the World: Route 66, Documentary (2019): Nose of 1951-52 CD shown. |
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The
Last Laugh (2019: Nose of a CC conveyable as decoration in Mexican bar. about 35m 30s in to movie. When retired talent manager Al Hart(Chevy Chase) is reunited with his first client, Buddy Green(Richard Dreyfuss), a comic who quit show business 50 years ago, he convinces Buddy to escape their retirement community and hit the road for a cross-country comedy tour. |
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Thanks to Lou Rugani for furnishing many of the titles and much
of the descriptive text for the movies listed.
If you have any movies or TV shows to add or pictures that can be included, send them to me.
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