#fakeposters — Public Fediverse posts
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The Last Movie of 2025: Some Like It Hot with Pat O’Brien https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/some-like-it-hot-1.jpgJoe E. Brown knows what he wants. Also: my last movie of 2025!
Sneaking in a last movie of 2025 to wrap up my “Fake posters for every movie I see in 2025” project. My letterboxd list says I’ve seen 254, but my fake poster count is 258 so I’m missing something somewhere.
What a great movie to end the year. It’s hilarious. Also: I never got why people were so enthralled by Marilyn Monroe. I get it.
Pat O’Brien (1531 Vine Street) plays a cop who manages to let a lot of people get shot. He was a very popular actor who appeared in over 100 films.
My LAST FAKE POSTER is… pretty good. Not a favorite, but an acceptable end to the project.
I guess I should do some sort of “wrap-up/what’s next” post tomorrow so that all my imaginary fans aren’t left guessing about my next project.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/31/the-last-movie-of-2025-some-like-it-hot-with-pat-obrien/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame Movies: The Godless Girl with Lina Basquette & Marie Prevost https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/the-godless-girl-1.jpg
I laughed a lot, but only when I wasn’t supposed to.
This is Cecil B. DeMille’s last silent movie, and it is weird and unintentionally hilarious. A student forms an underground atheist society at her school, which is apparently a crime.
I guess this was before people had free speech.When the student body president brings a mob to disrupt a society meeting, a girl is killed. Then they go to prison (well, prison-like reform school), where they find love and she finds religion.
The Godless Society has an excellent graphic department. Check this out:
Someone probably has a tattoo of this.One of the best things about watching this was Marie Prevost (6201 Hollywood Boulevard). I watched a different, terrible movie with her earlier in the year, and it was refreshing to see her in a role that justified her having a Walk of Fame star.
Lina Basquette (1529 Vine Street) is the Godless Girl, who was loosely based on a real person. Basquette had quite a life. She had been married to Sam Warner (co-founder of Warner Bros.), and the rest of the family was upset because the Warners were Jewish and Basquette was Roman Catholic. When Sam died, Lina was pressured by Harry Warner to give up custody of her daughter so the child would be raised Jewish. The custody battle effectively blacklisted Basquette for a time. In the late 1930s she was flown to Germany meet with a German film studio and several Nazis, including Hitler. She claimed she kicked Hitler in the crotch when he hit on her, and that Hitler didn’t stop pestering her until she told him her grandfather was Jewish.
And now, the fake poster. It’s hard to find fun movies with “God” or “Godless” in the title, so I went with “Girl.”
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/30/walk-of-fame-movies-the-godless-girl-with-lina-basquette-marie-prevost/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame Movies: Straight Shooting with Harry Carey https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/straight-shooting-1.jpg
Harry Carey never called a Cubs game.
This is John Ford’s first full length film, and he made it through trickery. He was supposed to shoot a two-reeler, but pretended some of the film was damaged during shooting so they’d give him more stock.
This was not Harry Carey’s (1521 Vine Street) first appearance as Cheyenne Harry. He first play the character a decade earlier, and played him in dozens of movies. When movies went to sound he was too old to play leads, but he was a popular character actor for decades.
Today’s fake poster is all about shooting.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/26/walk-of-fame-movies-straight-shooting-with-harry-carey/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame Movies: Hold That Ghost with Joan Davis https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hold-that-ghost-1.jpg
Forget Abbott & Costello- watch for Joan Davis!
I watched a VHS rip of this from the Internet Archive. I only watched Abbott & Costello if it was the only thing on TV when I was a kid, so the picture quality felt right.
The story was the same structure I remembered: Someone needs to do an unpleasant/scary/dangerous thing, and Abbott browbeats Costello into doing it. And the Andrews sisters show up to sing a couple of songs.
The best part of this movie is Joan Davis (1521 Vine Street). She’s got great timing and was a gifted physical comedian. I need to find more of her stuff.
Today’s fake poster is brought to you by the word “that.”
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/25/walk-of-fame-movies-hold-that-ghost-with-joan-davis/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame Movies: The Battle of the Sexes and Belle Bennett https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/the-battle-of-the-sexes-1.jpg
D.W. Griffith sure likes his morality plays.
Not really a battle of the sexes; more of a dumb husband deciding to leave his wife for a gold digger. Not great.
Belle Bennett started as a child performer in the circus, but by this time she had been typecast as “the mother.” She died of cancer at 41, four years after this movie was released.
Ooooh! There was a movie this year with “Battle” in the title and a poster that’s not too hard to mimic!
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/24/walk-of-fame-movies-the-battle-of-the-sexes-and-belle-bennett/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame: All-American Co-Ed and Frances Langford https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/all-american-co-ed-1.jpg
A boy pretending to be a girl??? Why, that’s crazy!
I watched this movie a month ago but forgot to do the review & poster thing for it- probably because I didn’t care for it.
The plot: a women’s horticultural college named Mar Brynn (gee, where did they get that name?) decides to boost their flagging enrollment by forbidding frat boys from Quinceton (gee, where did they get that name?) from coming on campus. Luckily for the Quinceton boys, they just did a drag show on campus, so they send Bob, one of their members, in drag to infiltrate the school. A boy acting like a girl? CRAZY! Then the hi-jinks start, and don’t end until the school puts on a big musical number and the boy and the lead girl fall in love. Along the way, Jim Rockford’s dad tries to hook up with the boy while he’s cross-dressing, and the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island carries a small plant.
Frances Langford (1500 Vine Street) is Virginia, the girl Bob falls for. She was a popular singer who also did a ton of USO shows with Bob Hope. I wish I’d seen her in a better film.
And I wasted a good original poster on this thing.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/23/walk-of-fame-all-american-co-ed-and-frances-langford/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame Movies: Picture Snatcher and Alice White https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/picture-snatcher-1.jpg
Jimmy Cagney sure made a lot of tough guy action comedies.
Jimmy Cagney sure made a lot of tough guy action comedies.
Alice White (1511 Vine Street) plays the bad woman trying to cheat on her boyfriend with Cagney. White’s real life sounds like it came out of one of these Cagney movies: her career was derailed when she and her boyfriend were accused of hiring someone to beat up her ex. She ended up leaving acting and becoming a secretary. It sounds like she didn’t miss it; her quote at MUBI on her filmography page is “I wouldn’t be a movie star again for all the tea in China.”
What do you get when a movie has very few available decent images and the title contains a word from a movie with a very simple poster? You get this:
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/23/walk-of-fame-movies-picture-snatcher-and-alice-white/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame Movies: The Divorce of Lady X and Binnie Barnes https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/the-divorce-of-lady-x-1.jpg
Merle Oberon sure likes messing with Laurence Olivier.
Very odd to see the leads of Wuthering Heights in a goofy rom-com. Fun, though!
Binnie Barnes (1501 Vine Street) had a 50 year run on screen. She had dozens of roles, but don’t expect any of those parts to be a frail and fainting weakling. She once said “One picture is just like another to me, as long as I don’t have to be a sweet woman.” Good for her!
Today’s poster is from a movie about a different lady.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/17/walk-of-fame-movies-the-divorce-of-lady-x-and-binnie-barnes/ #fakePosters #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame -
Walk of Fame Movies: Libeled Lady and Jack Conway
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/libeled-lady-1.jpgTrouble at work? You can solve it by getting your fiancee to marry someone else!
One of the best things about this Walk of Fame project is seeing classic actors do things I didn’t know they did. I’ve seen William Powell do a bunch of suave & sophisticated parts, but I’d never seen him do broad physical comedy. Watching him try to fish was a whole new experience.
Before Jack Conway (1500 Vine Street) started directing, he was a silent film actor. Most of his parts were in Westerns, which explains his cowboy outfit in this picture.
Today’s fake poster is based on one for a movie that as far as I can tell has zero connection to this one.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/14/walk-of-fame-movies-libeled-lady-and-jack-conway/
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Retro Movies: A Bucket of Blood
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/a-bucket-of-blood-1.jpgDick Miller’s finest leading man role.
I’m pretty sure plaster doesn’t work like that.
What’s weirder than a 1959 Roger Corman movie about a busboy at a beatnik bar becoming a celebrated artist by murdering people and coating them in plaster? A 1995 nearly shot-for-shot remake starring Anthony Michael Hall and a busload of character actors you’ll recognize. I didn’t watch the remake, but everything in the trailer happened in the original movie (but with less nudity).
Today’s fake poster comes from a different movie that mixes art and murder.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/12/retro-movies-a-bucket-of-blood/
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Walk of Fame Movies: Devil’s Doorway and Robert Taylor
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/devils-doorway-1.jpgNo relation to Hell’s Highway.
While it’s pretty impressive that this 75 year old movie says “hey, the USA did handle indigenous populations correctly,” it’s also a movie with a very white lead actor in full on red face.
Also: it’s certainly not the fault of the movie, but it is weird that the subtitles for a film about people being forcibly ejected from their land choose to show all the Shoshone dialogue as “SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE.”
Another thing that’s not the fault of the movie: Every time I hear “Devil’s Doorway” I think of Satan’s Alley.
Robert Taylor (1500 Vine Street) looks plain silly in his dark makeup and light eyes, but his actual performance isn’t as stereotypical as you might expect.
OH LOOK A POSTER!
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/08/walk-of-fame-movies-devils-doorway-and-robert-taylor/
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Walk of Fame Movies: The Squeaker and William K. Howard
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/the-squeaker-2.jpgThere is a shocking lack of mice in this film.
If your whodunit only has one reasonable suspect, it’s not much of a whodunit. Even the characters in the movie know it’s a flimsy story; the lead detective’s method to sole the crime is pretty much “I’ll stand near that guy until he screws up.”
William K. Howard (1500 Vine Street) directed over 50 movies, and at his peak was considered a leading director. Not that you can tell that from this movie. ZING!
Today’s fake poster might make you think of merlot.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/07/walk-of-fame-movies-the-squeaker-and-william-k-howard/
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Walk of Fame Movies: Lights of New York and Helene Costello
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/lights-of-new-york-1.jpgNew York is apparently a rough place to be a barber.
Lights of New York is the first “all-talking” picture. Other movies had synchronized sections, but this is the first one that synchronized the whole movie. It’s a pretty terrible movie, but that’s no surprise. Most of the effort probably went into capturing sound, and it was probably very expensive to do multiple takes or camera angles; it’s full of stiff, unbroken scenes.
Helene Costello (1500 Vine Street) is another casualty of the jump from silent films to talkies. She’s buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Calvary Cemetery, one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles. And she wasn’t related to Lou Costello, but he claimed he changed his last name to Costello to honor her.
Today’s fake poster is based on one from a different story of New York.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/12/06/walk-of-fame-movies-lights-of-new-york-and-helene-costello/
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Streaming Movie Adventures: The Punk Singer
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-punk-singer-1.jpgDid you know Kathleen Hanna did cool stuff? IT’S TRUE!
This gets a little fawning, but how could it not? It’s about Kathleen Hanna, a prime architect of everything cool in the 90s. My biggest complaint: They never revealed if Le Tigre was named after the knockoff Izod shirt that J. C. Penney used to sell.
Today’s fake poster was almost based on The Wedding Singer, but I liked this one more.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/11/08/streaming-movie-adventures-the-punk-singer/
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