EXchange names, NOLA edition
From Bed of Roses (dir. Gregory LaCava, 1933).
EXchange names sighting
Restaurants in the telephone book. From The Public Eye (dir. Howard Franklin, 1992).
An EXchange name sighting
Milchester is a place name in the Miss Marple world. MIlchester is therefore a real exchange name in a fictional world.
EXchange names fill the screen
From Larceny (dir. George Sherman, 1948). The page fills the screen; otherwise, you might not believe that someone is really looking at a telephone directory.
Harts, Keen’s, WIsconsin
An EXchange name on a restaurant letterhead.
An EXchange name sighting
MEDeric and, later, MEDicis were both Paris EXchange names.
An EXchange name sighting
SYcamore: from Backfire (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1950).
An EXchange name sighting
From One Way Street.
An EXchange name sighting
BRadshaw. From the 1960 movie Strangers When We Meet.
An EXchange name sighting
From This Woman Is Dangerous.
One more from John Alton
A page from a telephone directory.
An EXchange name sighting
From Crime and Punishment U.S.A.
EXchange names on screen
There’s always a directory around when you need one, big enough to fill the screen.
EXchange names on screen
From This Gun for Hire and Shortcut to Hell.
EXchange names on screen
From Mr. District Attorney (dir. Robert B. Sinclair, 1947). The movie is a bit ’phone-crazy.
EXchange names on screen
In a real telephone directory, I think. From The Dark Corner (1946).
EXchange names on the screen
From She Played with Fire (dir. Sidney Gilliat, 1957).
EXchange names on the screen
It’s not enough to show a character opening a telephone directory; we must see what the character sees. And what the character sees is somehow real: even a fictional telephone directory is in some way a work of non-fiction.
An EXchange name sighting
From Black Angel (dir. Roy William Neill, 1946).
An EXchange name sighting
From the 1951 remake of M.
Telephone EXchange names
From Slightly Scarlet (dir. Allan Dwan, 1956).
EXchange names on screen
From Kiss of Death (dir. Henry Hathaway, 1947).
EXchange names on screen
From Till the End of Time (dir. Edward Dmytryk, 1946).
EXchange names on the screen
From Old Acquaintance (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1943).
EXchange names on the screen
From Nocturne (dir. Edward L. Marin, 1946).
An EXchange name sighting
From Black Widow (dir. Nunnally Johnson, 1954).
An EXchange name sighting
GRanite? GReen? Both were Los Angeles exchange names.
EXchange names in directories
From Mrs. Craig, a customer directory and a reverse-lookup directory.
The Unfaithful : an EXchange name
MIchigan.
An EXchange name sighting
FLanders? FLeetwood? Only the operator knows for sure.