Look what I found! And this movie would be?
[Update: This is “On Our Merry Way,” a curious film in which Burgess Meredith plays a classified ad salesman who masquerades as a reporter. At first glance, I assumed this was the Globe Lobby at The Times. There is, after all, a globe. But the Globe Lobby is round, so this is obviously a set. I’d like to think that Ernst Fegte and Duncan Cramer were influenced by the Globe Lobby. By the way, IMDB says that Duncan Cramer was uncredited as an art director on the film. So much for IMDB.]
OK, how about now?
The exterior of The Daily Banner
And here’s the globe.
Another shot of the globe, establishing that yes, this is a set and a fairly inexpensive one at that.
And what’s this? I didn’t we think saw scenes like this in movies from this era.
It’s the LAT lobby. Is it Superman from the 1950s?
@Mary: If it’s the LAT lobby, where are the murals?
I vote for THE BIG CLOCK 1948.
Mirage (1965)
The Blurreds
@Dewey: Love it!
One more vote before I pretend to be working, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 1940.
Think I need my NaturalVision/polaroid 3-D glasses for this one.
@Arye: Don’t forget your Zotz coin.
Zotz will make you plotz in the Castle of William
I vote for The Clock even though I don’t see anyone in uniform. Do we get extra points for the blur?
Is that LADY KILLER with James Cagney?
Hey, where’s Puerto Rico? That’s just not right!
BALL OF FIRE.
Romance on the High Seas.
Love with a Proper Stranger.
Back to the Future
The lobby of the Daily Planet in the 1948 Columbia serial of Superman?
Burgess Meredith and IDIOT’S DELIGHT?
Burgess Meredith in On Our Merry Way
Burgess Meredith an all-time favorite of mine. What a career. And what a man.
By the way, my best guess on the film is On Our Merry Way co-starring the then Mrs. Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard.
Is it ON OUR MERRY WAY?
Burgess Meredith, of course, the movie?….I will take a wild guess, one that I saw first run, ….”On Our Merry Way”
I believe that’s Burgess Meredith. And that’s as far as I’ll take it.
Advise & Consent.
Burgess ‘Buzz’ Merrideth, certainly. But don’t know the film. From the sparsity of the set, it would not have been a major work.
Without doing too much research, based on the costumes I’ll say On our Merry Way, 1946.
Burgess Meredith for sure. I think the movie is ‘On Our Merry Way’? I hope so, I’ve been in a drought with these mystery photos for some time.
Many good examples of how to wear a fedora…except for Mr. Meredith. I’ll give him credit for having let it become askew during the playing of the scene. Oh, and the year was 1948 … I hit the wrong key.
On Our Merry Way?
On Our Merry Way with Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard?
“On Our Merry Way” (?) with Burgess Meredith (duh!)
Would the slogan “If it’s a good picture, it’s a Miracle!” apply here?
The Daily News Building on East 42 Street in New York, designed by Raymond Hood in 1929, and in very art deco design had (has) a large globe in the lobby and it is claimed that it was that lobby and globe that was the inspiration for the Daily Planet in the superman flix. I think the globe in the lobby motif is now considered a newspaper office design semantic. Thus when I researched B. Meredith films, i choose the first one circa 1948 that mentioned newspaper, As you see i was right. It’s just like playing Jeopardy…the answer is in the questi0on.
Damn! Barry OB beat to it!
That should say “beat” me to it!