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Free Sound Recordings

Enjoy rare recordings of famous stars for free anytime. Just click on the link to the site where you can listen:

Mary Pickford

 

 

Mary Pickford

Listen to the complete May 1959 CBC interview with Mary Pickford,

in which she talks for about an hour about her entire life and career.

 

Part One:

http://archives.cbc.ca/programs/129-3653/page/4/ 

 

Part Two: http://archives.cbc.ca/clip.asp?page=1&IDClip=13869&IDCat=286&IDCatPa=254&IDDossier=

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theda Bara

Here's one of two known recordings of her voice.

Click on this link, and listen to her brief recollections about making Cleopatra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBLHr4iwVM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norma Talmadge

Here’s a link to a sound clip that proves that there was nothing wrong with Norma’s voice, despite what some uninformed historians have claimed::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSN1_jKgFFY

 

 

Harold Lloyd's Old Gold Comedy Theater

His NBC anthology series aired for the 1944-1945 season. It featured some of the biggest names from film and radio. The series was intended as a lighter version of The Lux Radio Theater, featuring half hour shows based on successful comedy films from that time. Each show features big-name stars.

Click on this link to listen to any episode: http://www.archive.org/details/OldGoldCT

The Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Robert Young
True to Life with Dick Powell and Rosemary DeCamp
Vivacious Lady with Linda Darnell
Clarence with Joseph Cotton
Take a Letter, Darling with John Hodiak and Susan Hayward
Lucky Partners with Herbert Marshall and Jane Wyman
   Bachelor Mother and Glenda Marshall
   Room Service Jack Oakie and Cara Williams
   The Lady Eve with Guy Kibbee and Ralph Bellamy
   Nothing But the Truth with Anne Baxter and Alan Young
   The Show-Off with Fred Allen
   Appointment for Love with Paul Henried and Virginia Bruce 
   My Favorite Wife with Joel McCrea and Constance Moore
  A Girl, A Guy, and a Gob with George Murphy and Lucille Ball
  The Milky Way with Robert Walker and Eve Arden
  You Can't Ration Love musical with Dick Haymes  
  Standing Room Only with Paulette Goddard
  The Magnificent Dope with Janet Blaire
  A Lady Takes a Chance with Randolph Scott and Gene Tierney
  Brewster's Millions with Joan Fontaine
  The Major and the Minor with Joan Fontaine and Sunny Tufts
  A Slight Cast of Murder with Edward G. Robinson
  The Nervous Wreck with Jack Haley
  Scatterbrain with Judy Canova
  Hired Wife with Joan Bennett

  She Loves Me Not with Maria Montez

  Boy Meets Girl with Ann Sothern and Chester Morris

 June Moon with Frank Carson

  Having Wonderful Time with Pat O'Brien

  Tom, Dick, and Harry with June Allyson

Harry Houdini

Hear the actual voice of the famous magician in a 1914 recording made by Edison:

http://www.archive.org/details/EdisonMachineRehearsalByHarryHoudini1914

 

More to come as we find them!