THE LIGHTHOUSE co*ckTAIL SHAKER USED IN FOUR MOVIES ! & More
1.) Blondie of the Follies. 1932. Starring Marion Davies, sweet heart of William Randolph Hearst. Look Quick, toward the end of the movie, during the final party scene the Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker is on the shelf in the kitchen. This film has not been released on DVD yet
2.) Hollywood Party. 1934. "Musical comedy hodgepodge built around screen star Jimmy Durante throwing a gala party."The Lighthouse co*cktail shaker is on the bar in the classic egg-breaking sequence w/Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Lupe Velez. This segment is easily found on you tube.
the Hilarious egg scene takes place 4 mins 10 seconds into this clip:
3.) Riptide. 1934. A big budget pre-code movieStarring Norma Shearer wearing more than one very revealing gown which only pre-code production values would have permitted.The reappearance of an old flame complicates the staid marriage of a lively ex-chorus girl to a British diplomat. The Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker is used to shake and pour a Martini by the old flame, Robert Montgomery for Shearer. MGM emptied their prop house of bar warefor this one, in one scene in the suite of Robert Montgomery you can spot: The Hawks party size mixer, page 141, w/long glass stirring rod that has a sterling silver top knob and strainer, The Manning Bowman K128 mixer, page 60, various decanters, seltzer &bitterbottles, glasses, ice bucket, and an unidentified cut glass co*cktail shaker on the table top next to a lamp. There is imbibing in almost every scene, in a Cannes bar Shearer and Montgomery both order French 75s and behind the bar you can spot an unidentified large party size tea pot styleplated co*cktail shaker and next to that a repousse tea pot style International Silverco*cktail shaker re; page 42.
4.) Manhattan Melodrama.1934 Starring Clark Gable. William Powell & Myrna Loy arematched together for the first time. Movie winning an Academy Award for best story. Gable serves a drink to Myna Loy using The Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker.
This movie entered the lexicon of history as the last motion picture seen by John Dillinger whowas shot to death leaving the Biograph theater on Sunday July 22, 1934.Legend has it that Powell and Loy rehearsed their lines separately and literally met for the first time, cameras rolling, as Powell tumbles into the back seat of the limo holding Loy. The fantasticchemistry between the two is amazing and happens instantly. Director W.S. Van Dyke uses the pair for another low budget quicky film -shot in 18 days- The Thin Man, first of the series. Nominated for a 1934 Academy Award forBest Picture, it lost out to It Happened One Night, staring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. 1932 Paramount Pictures. Starring George Raft, & May West in her screen debut. The Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker is seen on a back bar in the night club.
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DOUBLE WEDDING 1937 MGM Romantic Comedy w/ William Powell & Myrna Loy
The Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker is in the last two minutes of the movie.
Art Director Cedric Gibbons who must have dearly loved this Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker, it's in so many of his movies.
DANGEROUS NUMBER 1937. Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker
Starring Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald. Reginald Owen actually pours from the lighthouse co*cktail shaker. Thank you to Ralph Griggs for this.
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5.) THE CHAMPION. 1949 a Hawks skyscraper co*cktail mixeris used by the bad girlplayed by Marilyn Maxwellto stir a Martini for the boxer played by Kirk Douglas. One sip and it's all over for the determined boxer, who then leaves hishonest manager and joins the racketeers...In 1940 the Hawks mixer was chosen by the Museum Of Modern Art, New York City, as representing the best in modern design in moderately priced commercial items. re: page 141 of Vintage Bar Ware book. In this movie the top of the long glass stirring rod, a sterling silver top capis missing.(More as not someone must have dropped this and the top broke off- hence the reason Maxwell is so awkwardly using this stirring rod.)The sterling silver strainer on the bottom end of the rod is still in place.
6.) White Christmas. 1954, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney,& Vera Ellen. Watch for the No. 250Coldseal Aluminum co*cktail Shaker by Kraftware. N.Y.N.Y.It makes a brief appearance when thefour some is in the club car on the train traveling to Vermont, and singing thesong "Snow"by Irving Berlin, while the bartender is pouring thema white snowyslush co*cktail. Tho there are four co*cktail glasses , the bartender is able to pour only three full drinks from the shaker and the co*cktail shot is endedthere. This co*cktail shaker is shown on page 200 of the Vintage Bar Ware book.
7.) The Graduate. 1967, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft. Mrs. Robinson asks Ben Braddock for a ride home, then into the house to the bar.The Swing co*cktail Shaker ison the back bar. stamped " A.S.Co. 80oz." re; page 108 vintage bar ware book.
8.) The Idle Class. 1921, Charlie Chaplin, The legendary crying husband seen from the back scene, his shoulders racked with sobs. He has just read the note from wife. "I am taking up other quarters until you rid yourself of your drinking habit." What remorse! But wait No, When he turns toward the camera we see he is shaking a martini shaker and pours himself a drink using a Standard Three Piece Top Pour shaker. easily found on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10FdW0Me4pg
And Charlie Chaplin as a Bartender in The Rink 1916. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk77lCw80YM
9.) The Divorcee. 1930. Norma Shearer & Chester Morris. w/ Shearer winning Best Actress Oscar.It's 30 mins into the film in the kitchen, it's loaded with co*cktail shakers.. -is that the international silver pinch bottle shaker on the shelf ?.. a few shakers there ,but you can't miss The Louis W. Rice Stepped Skyscraper, ca. 1928, silver plate, with black "tube" handle. The rare co*cktail shaker is in many art deco books, including.. American Modern 1925-1940 page 48. Great book with many shakers, this is the MOMA & John C. Waddell collection. published 2002.
10.)Kiss Me Deadly 1955. Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. There are three sizesofco*cktail shakers stamped "Wilcox S.P.Co."sitting on the back bar shelf, whileRalph Meekeris havinga drink with Gaby Rodgers. Wilcox Silver Plate Co. wasa division of The International Silver Company, Meriden Conn.
CREDITS: Thanks to keen eyed collector Ralph Griggs for spotting #1, #2, #3 & #6 and to Gary Graham for spotting the hard to see Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker in #4. We are going to rename this pageThe Ralph Griggs Page,.. He has just spotted # 9, # 11& #12,#14 & #15 #16 & #22! Thanks to collector James Walker for #10 Thanks to Douglas Willams for #17 & #23
Thanks to Jay Hendrickson for #26.
# 11.) Charley Chan & The Black Camel. 1931 Murder Mystery shot on location in Honolulu Hawaiiwith Warner Oland, Sally Ellers, Bela Lugosi & Robert Young. Sally Ellers pours co*cktails usingan Art DecoManning Bowman, 1928pre-market crash co*cktail shaker, the K128 model, Chrome with Jade Catalin Mounts, is shown on page 60 of the Vintage Bar Ware book. Watch this full movie on you-tube.
and again in Ladies Must Love. 1933 Universal Pictures
#12.) Adam's Rib. 1949 Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn. lots of co*cktail drinking in this movie. Tracy comes home to be served a Daiquiri co*cktail at the door by Hepburn, presumable from the Manning Bowman Skyscraper "Steward" co*cktail shaker, chrome plate w/ walnut top and bottom trim, sitting on the co*cktail table.Example onpage 62 Vintage Bar Ware
#13.) The Great Gatsby. 1949 w/ Alan Ladd as Jay Gatsby, Barry Sullivan as Tom Buchanan &Carey Macdonald as Nick Carraway. Sullivan pours co*cktails using the Benard Rice & Sons, Inc. co*cktail shaker with Juicer in the Top Cap. you can tell by the distinctive top cap and then again when Sullivan removes the top to check the contents you see the point of the juicer inside the cap in his hand. (underside Stamped: PAT'D Sept 30, 1924. APOLLO E.P.N.S. MADE IN THE U.S.A. BY BERNARD RICE'S SONS, INC. 4361)re; example on page 16 of vintage bar ware.
#14) A Letter to Three Wives 1949. Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell. Academy Adwards; Best Director, Best Writing. Here Jeanne Crain & Jeffrey Lynn drink a Martinipoured fromThe Martini co*cktail Shaker. Frosted glass with Sterling SilverMartinioverlay, chrome top. Photo of shaker from The Ralph Griggs Collection. For another example in red see page 130 of vintage bar ware.
#15) WE'RE NOT DRESSING. 1934 A screwball comedy staring Bing Crosby & Carole Lombard. Below... Leon Errol attemts to mix a Yellow Parrot co*cktail for a young Ethel Merman using a Cut Glass Party Size co*cktail Shaker. On the bar we see a Silver PlatedPinch Bottle co*cktail Shaker by International Silver Co. Meriden Ct. Half way throught the scene there Magically appears another silver plated International Silver co*cktail Shaker that Errol uses as a maraca in a dancing number.
# 16. MILDRED PIERCE, 1945 Below; The Chase Blue Moon co*cktail Shaker. for more about the Chase Copper & Brass Company, see pages 64-71 of the Vintage Bar Ware Book.
Joan Crawford won Academy Award for Best Acctress for her role as Mildred Pierce,1945. And like any good movie of the era there was a Plethora of Imbibing.
Above; Zachary Scott pours Martinis for Joan Crawford and Jack Carson at the bar of his California beach house.
Above; Zachary Scott offers Joan a drink from what looks like a set up bar station in the next room while she is picking out a bathing suit. She accepts.
Below;In the next scenethat takes placea few minutes later, Scott is mixing yet another drink ata thirdbar. Behind thebarwe see the Blue Moon co*cktail Shaker & The co*cktail Mixer designed by Walter Von Nessen , both produced by Chase Copper & Brass Co.
CHINATOWN. 1974
Paramount Pictures. In the first 2 minutes of the movie, Jack Nicholson reaches into his office cabinet & pours Bert Young a drink. We see the Blue Moon co*cktail Shaker on the top shelf.
# 17 DANCING MOTHERS. 1926W/CLARA BOW.. below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flHoAJlKQxE
In this scene Clara Bow,with Bobbed Hair,pours herself a co*cktail from an APOLLO BERNARD RICE'S SONS INC. N.Y. co*cktail Chaker and then lights up a Cigarette.
Below. Ralph Griggs photo; Apollo co*cktail Shaker by Bernard Rice's Sons. Inc.
# 18. REACHING FOR THE MOON 1930
Valet Edward Evertt Horton instructs Douglas Fairbanks the proper way to pour a co*cktail. Fairbank is holding a co*cktail shaker by the famous American Designer Elsa Tennhardt, silver plate ca. 1928 manufactured by E & J. Brass Co. N.Y. stamped underside pat. 75939. A complete set with ice bucket, tray, 6 cups and shaker sold at Sotheby's N.Y. June 15. 2011 lot #31 catalog NO8754 for $53,125.00...This very same set sold again at Sotheby's on December 13, 2017 for $85,000. with buyers premium the price is $106,250 before taxes..
#19 RED HAIRED ALIBI 1932 Below..
Starring Merna Kennedy & Theodore von Eltz. Here von Eltz pours a co*cktail for Kennedy using an Elegant Cambridge Glass co*cktail Shaker with Sterling Silver overlay design.
#20 WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT. 1938
Warner Bros Pictures Inc. 1938 Comedy, starring Kay Francis, Pat O'Brien & Ralph Forbes. We see the CHASE GAIETY co*cktail Shaker used to pour a co*cktail in the apartment kitchen of Kay Francis. The movie is on TCM. Turner Classic Movies and is not on tape or DVD.
And.. The Man I Love, 1947
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#21 SUSAN LENOX -Her Fall And Rise- 1931
Early pre-code MGM movie, Greta Garbo & Clark Gable. Garbo offers Gable a Martini from one of the two sky scraper co*cktail beakers. Looks like a strainer on the bottom of the glass swizzle. In the next scene: dinner on apartments' outdoor terrace, there is a plethora of serving glasses, either in ruby or cobalt with sterling trim. Cedric Gibbbons Art Director.
#22 Women Against Women. 1938 Staring Herbert Marshall & Mary Astor. The Foursome co*cktail shaker set, by Napier Co., is sitting on the bar. below.
# 23 OUR MODERN MAIDENS 1929 MGM Pre Code Silent film starring Joan Crawford. On the train observation car,Joan istraveling with college friends, &the barman is holding a complet co*cktail set by Bernard Rice & Sons, ca. 1928. silver plate. Designer Louis Rice. The silent title card is "LUNCH IS POURED".
This was Joan's last silent movie.
# 23 - A You can see the same co*cktail shaker again in THIS MODERN AGE, 1931, when the maids are cleaning up after the big house party. Both are M.G.M. movies with Cedric Gibbons, Art Director. Thanks to Ralph Griggs for spotting this one.
# 24 WESTWARD PASSAGE 1932RKO Pictures . StarringLaurence Olivier and Ann Harding. While having co*cktails at the bar, Olivier complains to Ann that she is being ogled by the "spanish rake" sitting on the other end. Here is the rake with the Boston Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker. A young & uncredited Turhan Bey.
#25 WILD BILL 1995 MGM Studios. Jeff Bridges as Wild Bill Hickok & Ellen Barkin as Calamity Janestar in this under rated movie w/ fantastic cast. Here Ellen mixes a co*cktail for Jeff using a studio prop made co*cktail mixer based on orignal patents,# 387,634 & 405,683.
#26 THE PLAINSMAN. 1937 Paramount Pictures. Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok & Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane. Here Arthur mixes a whiskey, egg & bitters co*cktail, with a co*cktail machine based on the same patent.
#27 Below: STAR OF MIDNIGHT. 1935
RKO Radio Pictures, with William Powell & Ginger Rogers.
Re; Glass co*cktail Shaker, Chrome Top. Produced
in Clear, Red, & Blue Glass, by Fostoria Glass Co.
#28 WOMEN LOVE DIAMONDS, 1927. MGM silent. starring Pauline Starke.
here is Starke w/ a Paisley Pattern co*cktail Shaker by Wilcox Silver Plate Co. Meriden Conn. Thanks to a team effort by members of co*cktail Shaker Collectors Facebook page for identification.
#29 MY MAN GODFREY 1936 Universal Pictures. starring William Powell & Carole Lombard. Here Powell serves a Martini to Eugene Pallette, using a Hawkes Crystal co*cktail Shaker and Hawkes Glasses. for another example see page 141 , Vintage Bar Ware. Thanks to Michael W Thomas for spotting this one.
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#30 POSSESSED. 1931 pre code M.G.M.
In this famous sequence Poor factory girl Joan Crawford watches a train stop in town, & looking through the windows sees the wealthy passengers. The First thing she sees is the Ultimate Symbol of the Good Life; a large party size co*cktail shaker, shaken by a Stewart, next; silk underwear, dancing & music, and as the train stops is offered a glass of Champagne. It is poured into a large wide mouth coupe, the kind of glass that Flappers put to use a glass swizzle stick to insure the sparkling bubbles dissipate quickly, believing the carbonated beverage caused gas...(flatulence)
POSSESSED: Joan Crawford arriving in New York finds a taste of the Good Life , poured by Skeets Gallagher from a party size co*cktail shaker, while meeting Clark Gable. Great art deco scenes thanks to Cedric Gibbons MGM Art Director
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#31 MONTANA MOON. 1930 The Lighthouse co*cktail Shaker can be spotted in the last minute of this movie in the train club car. The first singing cowboy feature staring Joan Crawford & Johnny Mack Brown was released by MGM. A wealthy NYC Jazz Age girl meets cowboy home on the range. Not released on DVD at this time.
BELOW: #32
THE LETTER. 1929 & 1940 .
1929 Paramount Pictures, released as a silent film & a talking film in this year. Here famous stage actress Jeanne Eagles as Leslie Crosbie pours co*cktails from Party Size plated co*cktail Shaker. -Eagles died just a few months after making this movie and was nominated for an Academy Award, the first to be so recognized by the Academy after her death. A Fantastic movie found on youtube, well worth watching!
1940 Werner Bros. Betty Davis as Leslie Crosbie & Herbert Marshall as the cuckold husband Robert Crosbie. 11 years earlier he played the lover of Davis; Goffery Hammond. A long scene toward the end of the movie makes use of a striped Hocking Glass co*cktail Shaker with chrome plated top. Davis was also nominated for best actress for her role.
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THE GAY DIPLOMAT 1931
RKO RADIO PICTURES. Betty Compson & Ivan Lebedeff
Ivan serves co*cktails from the MANNING BOWMAN 1928 Mixer Set, Chrome with Jade Catalin Mounts, using the matching cups. re; page 59 Vintage Bar Ware.
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HOT SATURDAY. 1932
Paramount Pictures. Cary Grant's first movie as leading man. With Nancy Carroll and Randolph Scott. Here actress Lilian Bond is poured a well shaken co*cktail from a party size co*cktail shaker.
stamped on the bottom.. Meriden S.P.Co. International S.Co.
Thanks to Collector Ralph Griggs.
#35 COLOMBO SEASON 8 EPISODE 2 "Murder Smoke and Shadows"
a Chase Gaiety co*cktail Shaker on the shelf behind Fisher Stevens.
Thanks to Collector Michael Thomas for spotting this.
#36 THE BIRDS, 1963, Alfred Hichock Director.
Tippi Hedren is on the receiving end of Martinis from Rod Taylor & his Steuben Glass Wide Mouth, double lip mixer, with Tear Drop Glasses.
Thanks to Collector Michael Thomas.
# 37 Dirigible 1931. Columbia Pictures.
Jack Holt demonstrates to Ralph Graves a mid-air docking/recovery of an aircraft with a dirigible. Actually performed for the movie w/ assistance of the U.S. Navy.
Thanks to co*cktail shaker collector Brian Crawford for spotting this.
Watching this movie on youtube @ 14:12 minutes in.. we see a 9" Zeppelin co*cktail Shaker on the right side table, it is picked up by a Navy Officer.
And @ 28:35 minutes into the movie we see a 12" Zeppelin co*cktail Shaker sitting on top of the radio cabinet. Fay Wray in the foreground.
#38 FOLLOW TRU Below.
Paramount Pictures, early pre-code, early technicolor. Starring Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal & Jack Haley (the Tin Man)That is Buddy Rogers,Nancy Carroll &Thelma Todd
But who made the beehive co*cktail shaker & cups pictured? contact us if you know.
Thanks to Michael W. Thomas for spotting this scene.
#39. SOME MEN CALL IT LOVE. 1931 MGM
Where else can you find two high-end designer co*cktail shakers actually used to pour a drink in the same movie. First, Norman Foster pours a co*cktail for his movie wife Leila Hayms using a 1928 Kem Weber (Karl Emanuel Martin 1889-1963) designed shaker produced by Friedman Silver Co, NYC.
Then interloper Adolphe Menjou pours a drink for Leila Hayms using a 1928 Louis W. Rice (1872-1933) designed stepped back sky scraper co*cktail shaker with smoke stack handle produced by Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc, NYC for it's Apollo Studios line.
All this thanks to MGM extraordinary Production Set Designer Cedric Gibbons, (1893-1960) The only Hollywood designer to visit the 1925 Exposition de Arts Decoratifs et Industries Modernes, in Paris, and designer of the Oscar statute in 1928. A trophy for which he himself would be nominated 39 times, and winning 11.
Thank you to movie buff and co*cktail shaker collector Ralph Griggs for spotting this rare movie
#40 JUST A GIGOLO 1931 MGM
William Haines pours C.Aubrey Smith a co*cktail using a Kem Weber skyscraper styled co*cktail shaker, in the scene by Production Set Designer Cedric Gibbons.
There is a generic tea pot style co*cktail shaker at the start of this Racy Pre-Code movie. The Kem Weber shows up half way into the show. Thank you again to shaker collector Ralph Griggs for spotting this.
#41. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.
1935, Winner of 5 Academy Awards, w/ Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert.
#42 Dancing Mothers
Paramount Pictures, 1928. Clara Bow , the IT Girl, with an Apollo co*cktail Shaker by Bernard Rice's Sons Inc.
# 43 A Slight Case of Murder. 1938
based on a play by Damon Runyon, staring Edward G. Robinson.
and staring the Chase Von Nessen Mixer
#44 The Lady From Shanghai. 1947 Produced, Directed & Screenplay by Orson Wells. GLASS co*ckTAIL SHAKER with applied sterling silver overlay of FIGHTING ROOSTERS. below. Thanks to Ralph Griggs
