Elyse Knox, who was the mother of actor Mark Harmon, is seen here pondering a strip of negatives on the set of the Bud Abbott/Lou Costello comedy Hit the Ice, in which she had a major role. Abbott and Costello don’t fall within our pulp remit, so we won’t be watching that—at least not to write about—but we love this shot of Knox. Several of her movies are promisingly titled. Free, Blonde and 21 sounds like a possibility for watching, as does Girl in 313. And of course there’s The Mummy’s Tomb, which we actually saw a while back. We’ll check out one of her others down the line. This shot is from 1943.
Diana Dors smacks Patrick Allen blurry in 1957’s The Long Haul.
Mob boss George Raft menaces Anne Francis in a promo image made for 1954’s Rogue Cop.
Bud Abbott gets aggressive with Lou Costello in 1945’s Here Come the Co-Eds.
Jo Morrow takes one from black hat Jack Hogan in 1959’s The Legend of Tom Dooley.
Chris Robinson and Anita Sands get a couple of things straight about who’s on the yearbook committee in Diary of High School Bride.
Paul Newman and Ann Blyth agree to disagree in 1957’s The Helen Morgan Story.
Verna Lisi shows Umberto Orsini who gives the orders in the 1967 film La ragazza e il generale, aka The Girl and the General.
What the fuck did you just call me? Marki Bey slaps Betty Anne Rees loopy in the 1974 horror flick 
Claudia Cardinale slaps (or maybe punches—we can’t 
Audrey Totter reels under the attentions of Richard Basehart in 1949 
Anne Baxter tries to no avail to avoid a slap from heel Steve Cochran in 1954’s 
Though Alan Ladd was a little guy who Gail Russell probably could have roughed up if she wanted, the script called for him to slap her, and he obeyed in the 1946 adventure 
Peter Alexander guards his right cheek, therefore Hannelore Auer crosses him up and attacks his left in 1964’s Schwejk’s Flegeljahre, aka Schweik’s Years of Indiscretion.
Elizabeth Ashley gives Roddy McDowall a facial in in 1965’s The Third Day.
Tony Anthony slaps Lucretia Love in 1972’s 
AndreÌ Oumansky goes backhand on Lola Albright in 1964’s 
Frank Ferguson catches one from Barbara Bel Geddes in the 1949 drama Caught.
This looks like a real slap, so you have to credit the actresses for their commitment. It’s from 1961’s Raisin in the Sun and shows Claudia McNeil rearranging the face of Diana Sands.
Gloria Grahame finds herself cornered by Broderick Crawford in 1954’s 
Bette Davis, an experienced slapper and slappee, gets a little assistance from an unidentified third party as she goes Old West on Amanda Blake in a 1966 episode of Gunsmoke called “The Jailer.”
There are a few slaps in 1939’s Gone with the Wind, so we had our pick. We went with Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard.
Virginia Field takes one on the chin from Marshall Thompson in 
