Film and TV stars and their bikes!

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Lupino pedals around her neighborhood. The year is 1941, when The Sea Wolf, the Michael Curtiz-directed Warners adaptation of Jack London’s high seas yarn, opened in theaters.

 

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Luana Anders, bike messenger-turned-actress, riding with her sketch book in a scene from Life Begins at 17, a 1958 Columbia Picture that began its life as The Teenage Story.

 

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Singer and actress Frances Langford, a star of the Golden Age of Radio and a co-star with Eleanor Powell in 1936’s Born to Dance, riding a bike “about the grounds of her Beverly Hills home”

 

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Jan Sterling cycling around the Universal backlot, on a break from shooting Kathy O’, the 1958 comedy about a child star (Patty McCormack) and the reporter (Sterling) who breaks through the movie publicist’s plot to hide the kid actress’ real mega-bratty personality.

 

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Rita Gam, riding around town in the spring of 1963, when she was busy with films (Sinners Go to Hell), TV (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Uncle Vanya) and theate

 

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Carol White, all of 16 and looking pretty glum, leads the cycling exodus from the Drayton Green Primary School, West Ealing, where 1959’s comedy Carry On Teacher had its location shoots.

 

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Ina Bauer, German figure skater who invented the Ina Bauer Element move, riding along a Berlin byway in 1961.

 

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Deanna Durbin on her bike, around 1938, when the singer and actress and teen star was shooting Mad About Music at Universal

 

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Maria Cuadra, Spanish television, theater and film star, out for a ride in her cycling furs, circa 1965.

 

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Rosemary Clooney riding a bike around the Paramount lot, with gift box and handbag, on a break between numbers on 1954’s Michael Curtiz-directed musical classic, White Christmas