Looks like that might be Paramount, good taste, no surprise if so.

Likely a prop of course, but still. ;)

Gorgeous hollywood royalty. :love:

DOH! Maybe not a Paramount depending on the timeline. :foo:

How about the beautiful singing Natalie Imbrublia riding in this video. I just can't make out what the bike is.

Natalie Imbruglia is indeed quite nice looking. I had no idea. :love:

It's not a prop but more likely studio transport, as bicycles were popular studio transport in the days before electric golf carts. The costume is from The Spoilers, a 1942 production set in Nome, Alaska during 1900, at the time of the gold rush. Dietrich play a saloon owner, Cherry Malotte,

I've always heard it pronounced Hedy. I looked it up and according to this wiki it was actually Hedwig but shortened to Hedy. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

In Blazing Saddles, Harvey Korman's character's name is "Hedley Lamarr" and everyone says "Hedy" and he's always going "it's Hedley! HEDLEY!!!"

It's one of the greateset running gags of all time but I can appreciate how it would fly over the heads of a modern audience, if they'd even bother to watch a nearly 50 year old movie. Regardless, here is a video explaining the joke's origin, from Mel Brooks himself.

Ah, well that helps my theory a bit then but just barely, not sure if there were road Paramounts yet or if this is one.

Sure looks like it could be a Paramount headbadge to me from here, maybe. :foo:

Ah, now I see said the Blind Man. Thanks for the explanation. :thumb:

I went back to school in 2002 in my fifties for an IT certificate so I could change careers and one day a professor was discussing certain tech developments and mentioned Hedy Lamarr's patent. I said, "That's HEDLEY!" and got a laugh from the prof and about three of the students. We knew it was funny.

PBS did an American Masters episode on her and it was sad to see what happened to her in her later years.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmas...umentary/9906/

Godspeed, Fred Ward (December 30, 1942 - May 15, 2022), notable for his portrayals of Virgil "Gus" Grissom in The Right Stuff and Earl Bassett in Tremors. He's seen here (on the right) with Richard E. Grant, in the 1990 biopic, Henry and June, in which he plays writer Henry Miller.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...107419ef7f.jpg

Alun Armstrong, shown here with the Coventry Eagle he rode in the BBC TV series, New Tricks, which is currenly being re-run on one our local stations.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...6984dbfb77.jpg

Small point: that's Alun Armstrong who is still kicking I think.

Can't find a photo with an actual bicycle so here's one with Suzy Kendal


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...cdc880c06e.png

That is Alun Armstrong, who was also in New Tricks. :thumb:

Dennis Waterman
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGLtUaNXoAIlIV9.jpg

Thank-you for posting. My mistake. I had the two mixed up.

Ward, Wally, and the Beav...
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...a33ddafd27.jpg

Don't forget the bike he and Larry won at a movie theater. lol

The FBI and Five-0

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1c50b1f8d5.jpg
Efrem Zimbalist jr.
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...08dfbc7106.jpg
Jack Lord

That engine must have been off and totally cold as her ankle appears to be touching the exhaust pipe?
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Speaking of Suzy Kendall....
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...7dcbdf3319.jpg

:thumb: Bultaco, bad azz machine in their day.

Well spotted, here's almost another one:


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f782c0e803.png

Britsh actor Lionel Jeffries, on the set of the 1964 film adaption of H.G. Wells' 1901 novel, The First Men in the Moon, which I re-visited last night. He's portraying eccentric English inventor Joseph Cavor. Both the novel and film are set in 1899, so the bicycle is a bit anachronistic, as it appears to be an early safety bicycle from the very late 1880s. It definitely has solid rubber tyres, which were virtually extinct by the mid-1890s after the 1890 invention of the pneumatic tyre. I guess Cavor must have been foregoing a new bicycle and sinking all his available cash into his Cavorite experiments, which would soon pay off. It's nice that they fit a bicycle into the film, given that Wells was an avid proponent of cycling. Great actor, fun film and a very interesting bicycle.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...d5a47ad1cb.jpg

The above post of Lionel Jeffries got me thinking of his other film roles, notably as Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Of course, that got me thinking of Truly Scumptious, portrayed by Sally Anne Howes. So, here she is on a Raleigh, looking, well, you know....
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...e18a23135c.jpg