Just clearing out about half of my large cache of classic icons waiting to be posted. All of the icons below have been previously seen on this journal as texture examples, but this post compiles them for more convenient browsing. Featured actors are Fredric March, Ann Sheridan, Carole Lombard, Basil Rathbone + Nigel Bruce (Sherlock Holmes movies), Audrey Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, and Olivia de Havilland.

( Thirty icons in all )

Part II of my September icon output, with forty-two icons.

( Starring James Dean, Ginger Rogers, Lionel Barrymore, and many more... )

Well, I promised some Abbott & Costello icons in this batch, but I'm afraid the moderator of the icontest they were entered in has gone absent. (Hopefully she's alright!) I was really hoping to see how they would place, so I'm going to wait another month and see if she returns to put the challenge through its vote. If not, I will definitely post them in early September.

In the meantime, we have forty-eight icons: (11) Jimmy Stewart; (8) Carole Lombard; (7) Joan Blondell; (6) Gene Tierney; (4) Sydney Greenstreet; (2) Boris Karloff; (2) Audrey Hepburn; (2) Margaret Lindsay; (1) Vivien Leigh; (1) Danny Kaye; (1) Leslie Howard; (1) Edward G. Robinson; (1) Basil Rathbone; (1) Vampyra. Sorry, no X-Men icons this time around--due mostly to a lack of interesting challenges in those communities in the last month.

( If it seems like a lot of girls... it is. That's what I got to work with. )

Today I present ten iconological specimens: five each of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and My Man Godfrey (Carole Lombard/William Powell). I'm very happy with some of these. They all required a fair amount of work, so I'd really appreciate comments, even if you don't take any of them.

( All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people. )