Giant Pants of the '30s

William Wellman, Patsy Kelly, Alice Faye, Walter Wanger, Gail Patrick, Henry Fonda, Frances Langford and George Raft, 1935

Henry Fonda, Gail Patrick, Walter Wanger, Alice Faye, Ida Lupino and William Wellman

Leif Erikson and Frances Farmer, 1938

Ida Lupino, Tullio Carminati, Mary Ellis and James Blakeley on the set of “Paris in Spring,” 1935

Betty Grable, Ken Murray and Mary Brian on their way to see the Al G. Barnes circus, 1938

Shot by Edward Steichen at Lilyan Tashman’s beach house in 1931.Clockwise from bottom left: Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Lilyan Tashman, Clifton Webb, Kenneth McKenna, Edmund Lowe (Tashman’s husband), Kay Francis (McKenna’s wife), Ivor Novello, and Joan Crawford.

Who else wants to be at this party?

Ray Bolger and Eleanor Powell, 1938

Robert Taylor, Joan Blondell and Dick Powell

Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford, 1937