#lyle talbot

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Mandalay (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1934)

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Who is your favourite live-action Lex Luthor?

Lyle Talbot (Atom Man vs. Superman)

Gene Hackman (1978-1987)

Scott James Wells (Superboy, season 1)

Sherman Howard (Superboy, seasons 2-4)

John Shea (Lois & Clark)

Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville)

Kevin Spacey (Superman Returns)

Jesse Eisenberg (DCEU)

Jon Cryer (Arrowverse)

Titus Welliver (Titans)

Michael Cudlitz (Superman & Lois)

Nicholas Hoult (DCU)

Voting ended onJul 17

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🎬 1933: Ladies They Talk About is pre-Code American  crime drama starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot and Robert McWade. (Warner Bros Pictures)

• Nan Taylor (Stanwyck) is a member of a gang of bank robbers, posing as a regular customer to distract the security guard while her accomplices take the money. Her cover is blown by a policeman who had arrested her before, and she is arrested again. Reform-minded radio star David Slade (Foster) falls in love with her, and gets her released as a favor from District Attorney Simpson (McWade). When she confesses that she is guilty, though, Simpson has her imprisoned.

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Also born today…

Lyle Talbot - Betty Field - Jack Larson - Alejandro Rey #botd

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Three on a Match (1932) is a Warner Brothers, pre-code crime-drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy that stars Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William and also features Humphrey Bogart. Lyle Talbot, Edward Arnold and Allen Jenkins. Upon its release, the film received tepid to poor notices overall. Decades after its release it found more favor with the critics and film historians. In 1969, William K. Everson called it "Splendidly cut and paced...and climaxed by a real shocker." Film critic Leonard Maltin described it as a “Fine, fast-moving (and surprisingly potent) pre-code melodrama of three girls who renew childhood friendship, only to find suspense and tragedy. Dvorak is simply marvelous".

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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) Edward D. Wood Jr.

January 19th 2026

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Batman (Robert Lowery) and Robin (Johnny Duncan) confer with Police Commissioner Jim Gordon in the serial New Adventures of Batman and Robin (1949), more commonly known as just Batman and Robin.

The next year Talbot would don a rubber bald wig to portray the villainous Lex Luthor in the serial Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).

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