Thonet Chairs in Movies

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Title	Year	Stars and Director	Screenshot	Notes
Morocco	1930	Gary Cooper Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou Eve Southern Ullrich Haupt Director: Josef von Sternberg		Madame Caesar, (Eve Southern), Adjutant Caesar (Ullrich Haupt), Monsieur La Bessiere (Adolphe Menjou) and a Thonet No. 18 in a cabaret scene. Several other shots in this set show Thonet No. 18s.
For the Defense	1930	William Powell Kay Francis Director: John Cromwell		Irene Manners (Kay Francis) and William Foster ( William Powell) in a restaurant scene.
For the Defense	1930	William Powell Kay Francis Director: John Cromwell		Detail The chairs at the tables are Thonet No. 18.
Street of Chance	1930	William Powell Jean Arthur Kay Francis Director: John Cromwell		In Larry’s Caterers — Preserves and Table Luxuries The chairs are Thonet No. 18 on the left and back and Thonet No. 45½ on the right.
				In Larry’s, later in the film. John D. Marsden, aka Natural Davis (William Powell).
				Detail Chairs at many tables in Larry’s are variants of Thonet No. 440.
The Divorcee	1930	Norma Shearer Chester Morris Conrad Nagel Director: Robert Z. Leonard		At a New Year’s Eve party.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18. Other chairs glimpsed at the party are Thonet No. 45 or 45½.
				At the hat check.
				Detail The empty chair in the forground is a Thonet No. 18 with optional back braces.
				In a diner.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 45½. with optional back brace.
The Public Enemy	1931	James Cagney Jean Harlow Edward Woods Joan Blondell Director: William A. Wellman		Tom Powers (James Cagney in his breakthrough role) walks into The Red Oaks Social Club and rests his hand on a Thonet No. 18 while looking over a pool game. The sign on the wall reads “Don’t spit on the Floor! Remember the Jamestown Flood”
				Powers and Kitty (Mae Clark) in a later restaurant scene.
				Detail Powers is sitting in a Thonet No. 18 (with a Thonet No. 45½ behind him) and Kitty is sitting in a Thonet No. 45½.
An American Tragedy	1931	Phillips Holmes Sylvia Sidney Frances Dee Director: Josef von Sternberg		Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) about to escape a pool hall through a window.
An American Tragedy	1931			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Platinum Blonde	1931	Loretta Young Robert Williams Jean Harlow Director: Frank R. Capra		Stew Smith (Robert Williams) and Gallagher (Loretta Young) in Joe’s Speakeasy.
				Detail Thonet No. 18
				In a later scene, Stew Smith in Joe’s Speakeasy
				Thonet No. 18 chairs
Scarface	1932	Paul Muni Ann Dvorak Osgood Perkins Karen Morley Boris Karloff Director: Howard Hawks Richard Rosson (co-director)		Scarface opens with a scene of Antonio “Tony” Camonte (Paul Muni) committing his first murder, in a resturant the morning after the 1st Ward Stag Party. The restaurant features Thonet No. 18 chairs, the variant with a narrow inner back loop.
				A short time later, Tony Camonte is arrested in Pietro’s Barber Shop, which also has the same Thonet No. 18 variant.
				Three Thonet chair models appear in the famous Columbia Café shootout scene. (Hawks includes a similar shootout scene in To Have and Have Not, 1944.) Poppy (Karen Morley) and Tony Camonte just before the shooting starts. Foreground: No. 45 middle: No. 18 background No. 18 variant.
				Tony and Poppy dodging machine-gun bullets, framed by Thonet chairs.
				Near the end of the shootout, this frame starkly features an empty No. 18 variant with optional back braces and the older-style circular leg brace.
Trouble in Paradise	1932	Miriam Hopkins Kay Francis Herbert Marshall Director: Ernst Lubitsch		Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) and Lily (Miriam Hopkins) read newspapers in their apartment.
				The camera zooms in on Lily,her face hidden by a newspaper.
				Detail The chair is similar to the Thonet No. 440.
Me and My Gal	1932	Spencer Tracy Joan Bennett Marion Burns Will Stanton Director: Raoul Walsh		The Drunk (Will Stanton) escapes after creating a row and fighting back with a chair in Ed’s Chowder House.
Me and My Gal	1932			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair.
Taxi!	1932	James Cagney Loretta Young Leila Bennett Director: Roy Del Ruth		Two diners peruse the menu at Goldfarb’s Fish Grotto.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 45½ and No. 18.
				Ruby (Leila Bennett) and Sue Riley Nolan (Loretta Young) in the ladies' room at Goldfarb’s Fish Grotto.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 45 variant with rectangular seat and narrow inner back loop.
Wild Girl	1932	Charles Farrell Joan Bennett Ralph Bellamy Eugene Pallette Director: Raoul Walsh		In a hotel/saloon. Yuba Bill (Eugene Pallette) is in the back right.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs.
				Billy (Charles Farrell) about to escape from an upstairs room.
				Detail The same No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs.
If I Had a Million	1932	Gary Cooper Charles Laughton George Raft W. C. Fields Richard Bennett Wynne Gibson Directors: Ernst Lubitsch Norman Taurog Stephen Roberts Norman Z. McLeod James Cruze William A. Seiter H. Bruce Humberstone Lothar Mendes		The vignette entitled Violet, directed by Stephen Roberts, begins with a bar scene. Violet Smith (Wynne Gibson) and John Glidden (Richard Bennett) prepare to sit at a table just before Glidden presents Violet with a million dollar check.
If I Had a Million	1932			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 45½. There are also Thonet No. 18 chairs visible at other tables.
Back Street	1932	Irene Dunne John Boles Director: John M. Stahl		“Cincinnati: In the good old days before the Eighteenth Amendment” The film opens in an outdoor drinking establishment...
				In most of the shots of tables, an empty chair is in the foreground, between the camera and the drinkers.
				Even children get a mug of beer

				Detail The chairs are all Thonet No. 18.
Dinner at Eight	1933	Marie Dressler John Barrymore Wallace Beery Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Lee Tracy Edmund Lowe Billie Burke Director: George Cukor		Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) and Mrs. Wendel, the cook (May Robson) in a kitchen scene with an unoccupied Thonet No. 18 in the background, complete with noir shadow.
Dinner at Eight	1933			Detail The chair next to the stand mixer is a Thonet No. 18, casting a noir shadow. In the foreground is a jello mold in the shape of a reclining lion. Farther back are heads of lettuce.
Dancing Lady	1933	Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone Fred Astaire Robert Benchley Moe Howard Curly Howard Larry Fine Director: Robert Z. Leonard		Steve (Ted Healy, in the dark suit and hat) and His Stooges in the Bradley Theater. He’s saying “Make with the chairs, boys!” Curly (Curly Howard) is out of the frame to the left, holding a Thonet No. 45½, Moe (Moe Howard) is bent over with another Thonet No. 45½, and Harry (Larry Fine) is about to sit at the piano. Curly Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine went on to become the Three Stooges.
Dancing Lady	1933			Detail Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable) in the Bradley Theater standing next to a Thonet No. 18.
Design for Living	1933	Fredric March Gary Cooper Miriam Hopkins Director: Ernst Lubitsch		George Curtis (Gary Cooper) leaves a café.
Design for Living	1933			The chair in the foreground is a Thonet No. 45½.
A Study in Scarlet	1933	Reginald Owen Anna May Wong June Clyde Alan Dinehart John Warburton Director: Edwin L. Marin		A secret society meeting, chaired by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew (Alan Dinehart), far right. Eileen Forrester (June Clyde) sits right of center.
A Study in Scarlet	1933			Detail The chairs in the secret society meeting room are Thonet No. 18.
Of Human Bondage	1934	Leslie Howard Bette Davis Frances Dee Director: John Cromwell		Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) and Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis) in a restaurant scene.
Of Human Bondage	1934			Detail All the chairs in this scene are Thonet No. 18s, with the older-style circular leg brace.
The Woman Condemned	1934	Claudia Dell Lola Lane Richard Hemingway Jason Robards Sr. Paul Ellis Director: Dorothy Davenport		Thonet No. 45 in a restaurant scene.
The Woman Condemned	1934			Detail The visible chair seems to be a Thonet No. 45.
The Man Who Knew Too Much	1934	Leslie Banks Edna Best Peter Lorre Nova Pilbam Frank Vosper Henry Oscar Director: Alfred Hitchcock		Clive (Hugh Wakefield) and Bob Lawrence (Leslie Banks) enter Dentist George Barbor’s (Henry Oscar) office.
The Man Who Knew Too Much	1934			Detail The row of chairs, casting a row of noir shadows, are Thonet No. 14.
Manhattan Melodrama	1934	Clark Gable William Powell Myrna Loy Director: W. S. Van Dyke		Jim Wade (William Powell) and Eleanor Packer (Myrna Loy) celebrate election night at The Cotton Club.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				Each table is supplied with mallets so celebrants can tap the table in rhythm with the band.
Mandalay	1934	Kay Francis Ricardo Cortez Warner Oland Lyle Talbot		Tanya Borisoff, “Spot White” (Kay Francis) descends the stairs at Nick’s nightclub.
Mandalay	1934	Kay Francis Ricardo Cortez Warner Oland Lyle Talbot		Detail The chairs in the dining area are Thonet No. 18.
The Girl from Missouri	1934	Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Director: Jack Conway		Edith ‘Eadie’ Chapman (Jean Harlow) sneaks out of a rehearsal past many Thonet chairs upside down on tables. Thonet No. 18 and No. 45½ are visible.
				A few minutes later, Eadie returns to the rehearsal. Many Thonet chairs are visible around the dance floor.
				Detail Thonet No. 45½ in the left foreground and on top of the table in the middle. Thonet No 18 on the table at right.
The Mystery Man	1935	Robert Armstrong Maxine Doyle Director: Ray McCarey		In this restaurant scene, the chairs are Thonet No. 18. The scene includes the trope of chairs turned upside down on tables to indicate closing time.
Whipsaw	1935	Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy John Sheehan Director: Sam Wood		Near the end of the film, Ross McBride (Spencer Tracy) and Vivian Palmer (Myrna Loy) walk in to a Beanery, welcomed by owner Joe (John Sheehan). Gang members are right behind them.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18 and No. 45.
				McBride takes shelter behind an overturned table during the shootout with the gang members. The chair is a Thonet No. 45 variant with narrow inner back loop.
Fury	1936	Sylvia Sidney Spencer Tracy Walter Brennan Director: Fritz Lang		Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) drinks in a closed bar with Thonet No. 18s stacked on tables, complete with noir shadows. There’s also a later restaurant scene featuring Thonet No. 18 and No. 45 chairs.
Fury	1936			Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney) in the courtroom, which has Thonet No. 18s for lawyers and clients.
Swing Time	1936	Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Victor Moore Director: George Stevens		Edwin “Pop” Cardetti (Victor Moore) tries a card trick on a skeptical stage hand. A Thonet No. 18 stands in the left foreground of the shot.
Swing Time	1936			John “Lucky” Garnent (Fred Astaire) and Cardetti discuss wardrobe. A Thonet chair, model unknown, stands in the left foreground of the shot.
One Rainy Afternoon	1936	Francis Lederer Ida Lupino Director: Rowland V. Lee		Thonet No. 18 at the piano, with noir shadow.
				Thonet No. 18 during a reading scene.
				Thonet No. 18 with the narrow back loop in the courtroom scene. (Publicity still with Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino, from Wikimedia Commons)
Come and Get It	1936	Edward Arnold Joel McCrea Frances Farmer Walter Brennan Director: Howard Hawks William Wyler		Swan Bostrom (Walter Brennan) and Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) enter the hotel restaurant.
Come and Get It	1936			Swan Bostrom, Barney Glasgow and Lotta (Frances Farmer). The restaurant features Thonet No. 18 and No. 45 chairs.
Big Brown Eyes	1936	Cary Grant Joan Bennett Walter Pidgeon Lloyd Nolan Director: Raoul Walsh		Russ Cortig (Lloyd Nolan) falls into a Thonet B34 (or similar) after being shot in a restroom.
Big Brown Eyes	1936			Detail
The Devil is a Sissy	1936	Freddie Bartholomew Jackie Cooper Mickey Rooney Director: W.S. Van Dyke and Rowland Brown		Robert “Buck” Murphy (Jackie Cooper) leads the gang into the Charles Chop House.
				Detail The chairs at the tables are Thonet No. 18.
				“Buck” Murphy at the counter, with Claude “Limey” Pierce (Freddie Bartholomew) on the left of the door, James “Gig” Stevens (Mickey Rooney) to his right, and a couple of gangsters just entering.
				In the gang’s hideout, “Limey” Pierce falls though the torn cane seat of a Thonet No. 45½.
High Tension	1936	Brian Donlevy Glenda Farrell Norman Foster Director: Allan Dwan		Two hoods start a fight in order to steal Steve Reardon’s (Brian Donlevy) cash.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18 with a narrow inner back loop, optional back supports and an old style ring-shaped leg brace.
				In the pool room.
				Detail The chairs casting noir shadows are a natural wood Thonet No. 45 variant with rarrow inner back loop and a black Thonet No. 18.
Dead End	1937	Sylvia Sidney Joel McCrea Humphrey Bogart Wendy Barrie Claire Trevor Allen Jenkins Director: William Wyler		Thonet No. 18s in Chez Pascagli (Famous Italian Dishes).
Bank Alarm	1937	Conrad Nagel Eleanor Hunt Vince Barnett Wheeler Oakman Director: Louis J. Gasnier		Thonet bent steel chairs, similar to the B 34 armchair, in the Club Karlotti.
Bank Alarm	1937			Detail
Easy Living	1937	Jean Arthur Edward Arnold Ray Milland Director: Mitchell Leisen		Thonet No. 18 chairs at the tables in the Automat. The man on the floor just did a pratfall, slipping on spilled food. The Automat in Film
Easy Living	1937			Detail
Love Is News	1937	Tyrone Power Loretta Young Don Ameche Elisha Cook Jr. Director: Tay Garnett		Newsmen watch as Stephen “Steve” Leyton (Tyrone Power) plays checkers on the bar floor with whiskey shots and mugs of beer.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18
				In a later shot in the same bar, Leyton talks with Egbert Eggleston (Elisha Cook Jr.), who was a college checkers champion.
Stella Dallas	1937	Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Anne Shirley Alan Hale Director: King Vidor		Ed Munn (Alan Hale) speaks to Stella Dallas (Barbara Stanwyck) (with her back turned to the camera) in a restaurant scene.
Stella Dallas	1937			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 29 or a similar model.
Young and Innocent	1937	Nova Pilbeam Derrick De Marney Jerry Verno Director: Alfred Hitchcock		Erica Burgoyne (Nova Pilbeam) at the counter and a Lorry Driver (Jerry Verno) in Tom’s Hat roadhouse.
Young and Innocent	1937			Detail The chairs at the tables are Thonet No. 52½ or a similar model.
Fast Company	1938	Melvyn Douglas Florence Rice Douglass Dumbrille Shepperd Strudwick Director: Edward Buzzell		Lawyer Arnold Stamper, (Douglass Dumbrille), sits on a Thonet No. 45½ while talking to his client Ned Morgan (Shepperd Strudwick).
In Old Chicago	1938	Tyrone Power Alice Faye Don Ameche Alice Brady Phyllis Brooks Berton Churchill Director: Henry King		Dion O'Leary (Tyrone Power) holds a chair for Ann Colby (Phyllis Brooks) in The Senate, Dion and Belle’s new saloon. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				Senator Brooks (Berton Churchill) leads Belle Fawcett (Alice Faye) to a table after her song.
				Detail A Thonet No. 18 (with optional back braces) and a Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop are visible on the right.
Algiers	1938	Charles Boyer Sigrid Gurie Hedy Lamarr Alan Hale Sr. Director: John Cromwell		A scene in a sitting room.
Algiers	1938			Detail The chair in the background is a Thonet No. 18 with optional back-seat braces.
Holiday	1938	Katharine Hepburn Cary Grant Doris Nolan Lew Ayres Edward Everett Horton Director: George Cukor		Johnny Case (Cary Grant) and Julia Seton (Doris Nolan) in “the playroom,” an upstairs room originally designed for children.
Holiday	1938			Detail Behind Johnny and Julia is a Thonet Kindersessel (children’s chair) No. 1 at a small table.
You and Me	1938	Sylvia Sidney George Raft Harry Carey Robert Cummings Director: Fritz Lang		“The Mob” in a café/meeting place.
				Detail The chairs shown are two Thonet No. 18s (left and right), and a Thonet No. 45½ in the center.
				Detail The Thonet No. 45½ is an unusual model where the inner back loop extends down and attaches to the legs. (See Historical Photo 1906 in Extras, where the inner back loop extends down to become the legs.)
Ninotchka	1939	Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas Ina Claire Director: Ernst Lubitsch		Thonet chairs appear in several scenes in Ninotchka. The most visible chair in this screenshot is a Thonet No. 45.
Dust Be My Destiny	1939	John Garfield Priscilla Lane Alan Hale Director: Lewis Seiler		Joe Bell (John Garfield) and Mabel Alden (Priscilla Lane) embrace.
				Detail Thonet No. 14 with circular leg brace.
				Two detectives leave Nick’s Diner.
				Detail The same Thonet No. 14 chairs.
Midnight	1939	Claudette Colbert Don Ameche John Barrymore Francis Lederer Mary Astor Elaine Barrie Director: Mitchell Leisen		Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche) enters a café and greets Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert).
Midnight	1939			Detail The left chair is a Thonet No. 18. The lighter colored chair on the right is a Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop.
Half a Sinner	1940	Heather Angel John “Dusty” King Constance Collier Director: Al Christie		The dénouement of this comedy noir takes place in Larry Cameron’s very modern kitchen with double stoves, double refrigerators and variations of the Thonet S 533 bent steel chair.
Half a Sinner	1940			A moment later, a bad guy looms in the kitchen doorway with both Larry Cameron and another S 533 caught unawares because they’re looking away from the door.
The Letter	1940	Bette Davis Herbert Marshall James Stephenson Victor Sen Yung Director: William Wyler		In the trial scene, attorney Howard Joyce (James Stephenson) sits next to an empty Thonet No. 18, with Ong Chi Seng (Victor Sen Yung) on the left and Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) in the near background.
The Letter	1940			Detail
The House Across the Bay	1940	George Raft Joan Bennett Lloyd Nolan Walter Pidgeon Director: Archie Mayo		Three models of Thonet chair appear in Spot 61, a nightclub: a Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop at a roulette wheel
				A Thonet chair, model unknown, at a dining table (with noir shadow).
				A Thonet No. 18 at a dining table
21 Days	1940	Vivien Leigh Laurence Olivier Leslie Banks Director: Basil Dean		A restaurant scene in which Larry Durrant (Laurence Olivier) and Wanda Wallen(Vivien Leigh) begin their last three weeks together. The chairs are similar to the Thonet No. 12.
Saturday’s Children	1940	John Garfield Anne Shirley Claude Rains Director: Vincent Sherman		Dancing at a going-away party for Rims Rosson (John Garfield) in Martin's Social Club.
Saturday’s Children	1940			The chair is a Thonet No. 14 with a cane seat. Similar chairs show up in a café set.
The Great McGinty	1940	Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus Akim Tamiroff Jimmy Conlin Director: Preston Sturges		The Lookout (Jimmy Conlin) looks on in horror as Daniel McGinty (Brian Donlevy) throws a Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop.
The Great McGinty	1940			Detail The chairs at the tables are Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop. In the background right is a Thonet No. 45½.
Blues in the Night	1941	Richard Whorf Elia Kazan (acting) Director: Anatole Litvak		Thonet No. 18s in the probably fictional St. Louis Café.
Mr. District Attorney	1941	Dennis O'Keefe Florence Rice Peter Lorre Stanley Ridges Minor Watson Charles Arnt Director: William Morgan		P. Cadwallader Jones (Dennis O'Keefe) and Terry Parker (Florence Rice) in a café scene. The chairs are like the Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair.
Mr. District Attorney	1941			Detail
The Little Foxes	1941	Bette Davis Herbert Marshall Teresa Wright Director: William Wyler		David Hewitt (Richard Carlson) greets Alexandra Giddens (Teresa Wright) in a restaurant. A Thonet No. 18 casts a noir shadow.
The Little Foxes	1941			A later shot in the same restaurant set also shows a Thonet No. 45 on the right at an empty table.
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles Joseph Cotten Dorothy Comingore Everett Sloane Ray Collins George Coulouris Agnes Moorehead Paul Stewart Ruth Warrick Erskine Sanford William Alland Director: Orson Welles		Citizen Kane is full of remarkable shots and scenes. In one crane shot, the camera moves through a neon sign (a miniature model built to open up for the camera), then down through a skylight (using a cross fade) to show a café scene below.
				Susan Kane (Dorothy Comingore) gets drunk after a show and talks with the faceless journalist. Three characters cast noir shadows: Susan, the man in the doorway and a Thonet No. 18 at a table in the background.
				Welles repeats this scene twice more, each time with changes in the set showing the passage of time. The second time, the Thonet chairs behind Susan have been moved, as if they had been used. The two distinct noir shadows are Susan’s and a Thonet No. 18’s.
				In the third repetition, late in the film, the El Rancho café appears ready to close, with the Thonet chairs stacked in pairs on the tables in the corner behind Susan. Thonet chairs stacked on tables is a trope of noir movies. Thonet No. 18s with the older-style circular leg brace and some with the newer curved leg brace are shown.
A Woman’s Face	1941	Joan Crawford Melvyn Douglas Conrad Veidt Donald Meek Director: George Cukor		Waiter Herman Rundvik (Donald Meek) leaves the room.
				Detail The chair looks like a Model 18 with added bentwood curls between the inner and outer back loop.
				Detail In a later shot, the same model Thonet chairs stacked on a table, a movie trope indicating closing time.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith	1941	Carole Lombard Robert Montgomery Gene Raymond Director: Alfred Hitchcock		David Smith (Robert Montgomery) and Ann Krausheimer Smith (Carole Lombard) in Mama Lucy’s Restaurant
Mr. & Mrs. Smith	1941			Detail Thonet No. 18 chairs at all the tables.
Blonde Comet	1941	Virginia Vale Robert Kent Barney Oldfield Vince Barnett William Halligan Joey Ray Red Knight Diana Hughes Director: William Beaudine Arthur Hammons Tiny Hamberger		Cannonball Blake (William Halligan) reads a paper while waiting for his daughter and old friend Barney Oldfield (played by himself).
Blonde Comet	1941			The Blonde Comet, Beverly Blake (Virginia Vale), Cannonball Blake and Barney Oldfield discuss racing. The chairs are Thonet No. 45½.
Rage in Heaven	1941	Robert Montgomery Ingrid Bergman George Sanders Oskar Homolka Director: W.S. Van Dyke Robert B. Sinclair Richard Thorpe		Dr. Rameau (Oskar Homolka) and Stella Bergen (Ingrid Bergman) at a Parisian bookbinder’s shop recovering the last volume of the diary of Philip Monrell (Robert Montgomery).
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18 (left) and No. 45½ (right).
				Detail As Dr. Rameau and Stella leave the shop, two more Thonet No. 18 chairs are shown in the foreground.
Nazi Agent	1942	Conrad Veidt Ann Ayars Frank Reicher Director: Jules Dassin		In a scene in The Continental Restaurant, upholstered Thonet chairs are at the tables.
Moontide	1942	Jean Gabin Ida Lupino Thomas Mitchell Claude Rains Director: Archie Mayo		Thonet bar stools in the Red Dot bar (featuring Eastside Beer).
Moontide	1942			Nutsy (Claude Rains), Bobo (Jean Gabin), Tiny (Thomas Mitchell) and a Thonet No. 45 in the “Shower Room.”
Casablanca	1942	Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains Conrad Veidt Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Director: Michael Curtiz		It’s easy to miss, but the chairs in the Blue Parrot bar are Thonet No. 14, 16, or 18 with striped fabric back covers. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) walks into the Blue Parrot to cut a deal with owner Signor Ferrari (Sydney Greenstreet). Also see fabric-covered Thonet chairs in Phantom Lady, 1944 and Peter Gunn, 1958-1960.
Casablanca	1942			Detail
This Gun for Hire	1942	Veronica Lake Robert Preston Laird Cregar Alan Ladd Director: Frank Tuttle		Willard Gates (Laird Cregar) and Philip Raven (Alan Ladd), background, in a restaurant scene. A Thonet a Kleiderstock (clothes stand) is in the back left corner.
				The camera closes in on Gates and Raven.
				The chairs are Thonet No. 440.
All Through the Night	1942	Humphrey Bogart Conrad Veidt Kaaren Verne Director: Vincent Sherman		Alfred “Gloves” Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) enters Miller’s Home Bakery. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
All Through the Night	1942			Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne) enters Miller’s Home Bakery. In a late scene, where the patriotic gangsters break up a Nazi fifth columnist’s meeting, Thonet No. 18 chairs appear again, some used as weapons.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon	1942	Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Lionel Atwill Director: Roy William Neill		In an early café scene, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone)—center rear, in disguise—prepares to snooker two Nazi agents.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon	1942			The agents with an empty Thonet No. 18 chair in the foreground.
The Glass Key	1942	Brian Donlevy Veronica Lake Alan Ladd William Bendix Director: Stuart Heisler		Ed Beaumont (Alan Ladd) after being beaten and thrown into a room. The chair is a Thonet No. 45½ with an extra leg-brace loop in the back.
The Glass Key	1942			Beaumont smashes his way out through a floor-level window with the chair.
Shadow of a Doubt	1943	Teresa Wright Joseph Cotten Macdonald Carey Patricia Collinge Henry Travers Hume Cronyn Director: Alfred Hitchcock		Charlotte “Charlie” Newton (Teresa Wright) discovers the dark truth about her uncle Charlie in a newspaper in the Santa Rosa, California Free Public Library. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				Immediately after Charlie reads about her uncle Charlie comes a justifiably famous crane shot reminiscent of the ending of Citizen Kane. Charlie leaves the reading table passing through noir shadows cast by the chairs and the table.
				The camera pulls farther away and Charlie casts her own noir shadow. This scene marks the pivot in the film as it turns from a (supposedly) light film about a family into a dark murder mystery.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Deborah Kerr Roger Livesey Anton Walbrook Director: Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger		Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Anton Walbrook) being questioned in an office furnished with Thonet No. 14 chairs.
Above Suspicion	1943	Joan Crawford Fred MacMurray Basil Rathbone Director: Richard Thorpe		In Salzburg, Austria,Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and Frances Myles (Joan Crawford) find the master bakery and café a clue led them to. A Thonet chair seems to be hung up as a sign for the bakery-café.
Hi Diddle Diddle	1943	Adolphe Menjou Martha Scott Pola Negri Dennis O'Keefe Billie Burke Director: Andrew L. Stone		Benny (Sidney Miller), Leslie Quayle (June Havoc) and Col. Hector Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) in a bar scene. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
A Lady Takes a Chance	1943	Jean Arthur John Wayne Director: William A. Seiter		A jive band (The Three Peppers), with the pianist (Oliver “Toy” Wilson) sitting on a Thonet No. 18.
A Lady Takes a Chance	1943	Jean Arthur John Wayne Director: William A. Seiter		Below, tables in the saloon scene are set with Thonet No. 18 chairs.
Stormy Weather	1943	Lena Horne Bill Robinson Cab Calloway Katherine Dunham Fats Waller Nicholas Brothers Ada Brown Dooley Wilson Director: Andrew L. Stone		In Ada Brown’s Beale St. Café, Fats Waller and the Beale Street Boys play in the background while Ada Brown sings in the foreground. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				Several cast members around two tables. Lena Horne is seated; Katherine Dunham stands behind her.
				Detail Three models of Thonet chair are identifiable in this shot: Thonet No. 45½ in the back, Thonet No. 18 at right and Thonet No 18 with narrow back loop at left.
Stage Door Canteen	1943	Cheryl Walker Lon McCallister Margaret Early William Terry Marjorie Riordan Director: Frank Borzage		Many Thonet chairs appear in this film. Most of the scenes were filmed in Hollywood, not at the real Stage Door Canteen in New York. An opening scene in an office. The chiar in the background is a Thonet 45½.
				A late scene in a dressing room. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				A publicity still. Two white-painted Thonet chairs appear in the foreground, a Thonet No. 18 and a No. 45½.
				This photo was taken as entertainers waited to appear on a radio broadcast from the real Stage Door Canteen in New York. From left: Connie Haines, Maxie Rosenbloom, Ben Lyon, Morton Downey and Joan Blondell. The visible chairs are Thonet S 533 or similar.
The Hard Way	1943	Ida Lupino Dennis Morgan Joan Leslie Director: Vincent Sherman		Albert Runkel (Jack Carson) pulls out a chair to site down with Mrs. Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino).
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18.
				On a stage set, another Thonet No. 18.
				Detail
Background to Danger	1943	George Raft Brenda Marshall Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Director: Raoul Walsh		Joe Barton (George Raft) in the Haliç Kabaresi (Golden Horn Cabaret). The chair is a Thonet No. 18.
				The aftermath of a fight in the cabaret.
				Detail The chairs are one Thonet No. 45½ and two Thonet No. 18s. Note the noir shadow cast on the door by the right-hand chair.
The Woman of the Town	1943	Claire Trevor Albert Dekker Barry Sullivan Henry Hull Porter Hall Percy Kilbride Clem Bevans Director: George Archainbaud		Dora Hand (Claire Trevor)walks through a hotel door.
The Woman of the Town	1943			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18, casting a noir shadow.
The Leopard Man	1943	Dennis O'Keefe Margo Jean Brooks Director: Jacques Tourneur		Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) at a makeup mirror.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18. painted white.
				In a later scene, with Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe), Kiki Walker has her feet up on the white Thonet chair.
Cover Girl	1944	Rita Hayworth Gene Kelly Phil Silvers Director: Charles Vidor		Cover Girl, a Technicolor musical, contains this remarkable after-hours nightclub set with many Thonet No. 18s and No. 45s (painted gold) casting larger-than-life noir shadows.
Cover Girl	1944			Maribelle Hicks (Rita Hayworth) and Danny talking through Thonet chairs stacked on tables to indicate closing time.
Laura	1944	Gene Tierney Dana Andrews Clifton Webb Vincent Price Judith Anderson Director: Otto Preminger		In the restaurant scene where Laura (Gene Tierney) introduces herself to Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), there’s a glimpse of Thonet chairs similar to the No. 321 in the 1904 Thonet Catalog (with the newer curved leg brace). Other chairs on this restaurant set look like the same model with fabric back and seat covers.
Laura	1944			Detail
The Woman in the Window	1944	Edward G. Robinson Joan Bennett Raymond Massey Dan Duryea Director: Fritz Lang		The chairs around tables in the dining room of the club look like like a blond version of the Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair (Schreibtischfauteuils).
To Have and Have Not	1944	Humphrey Bogart Walter Brennan Lauren Bacall Dolores Moran Hoagy Carmichael Marcel Dalio Director: Howard Hawks		This is the first, and most iconic, of three screen adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not. All three include shots of Thonet chairs. This film also includes a shootout reminiscent of the famous Columbia Café shootout in Scarface, 1932, also directed by Hawks. A lot of the important action takes place in the bar of The Marquis Hotel, where Frenchy (Marcel Dalio) is the manager. The bar is furnished with Thonet No. 18 chairs, often shown prominently. A Thonet No. 52½ is visible in one shot. Here Marie “Slim” Browning (Lauren Bacall) has coffee while Cricket (Hoagy Carmichael) works out a song on the piano.
				Harry “Steve” Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) strides purposefully into the bar, with Thonet No. 18s prominently displayed in the foreground.
				Late in the film, Cricket and Slim at the piano, framed by the legs of upside-down Thonet chairs.
Passage to Marseille	1944	Humphrey Bogart Michèle Morgan Claude Rains Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Director: Michael Curtiz		A member of a pro-German street mob destroys the office and press of La Verité Francaise, a patriotic newspaper that Jean Matrac (Humphrey Bogart) publishes.
Passage to Marseille	1944			The man is using a Thonet No. 18 to smash glass office partitions. This action takes place during one of the several flashbacks in the film.
Murder, My Sweet	1944	Dick Powell Claire Trevor Anne Shirley Mike Mazurki Director: Edward Dmytryk		In a scene at Florian’s Bar, Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) approaches Velma Valento (Claire Trevor). Thonet No. 18 chairs are piled up at the back of the bar, casting stark noir shadows on the back wall and ceiling.
				The piano player looks over after Moose Malloy has thrown the new Florian’s boss across the room.
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Ministry of Fear	1944	Ray Milland Marjorie Reynolds Dan Duryea Percy Waram Director: Fritz Lang		Inspector Prentice (Percy Waram) waits in a hospital room for Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) to wake after nearly dying in a bomb blast.
Ministry of Fear	1944			The chair is similar to a model 56b, with a cutout middle back. This is not a cropped screenshot; the camera has zoomed in on the chair and Prentice.
The Suspect	1944	Charles Laughton Ella Raines Dean Harens Stanley C. Ridges Henry Daniell Rosalind Ivan Keith Hitchcock Director: Robert Siodmak		Mary Gray (Ella Raines) in the breakroom of the shop where she works.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18.
				Philip Marshall (Charles Laughton) in a restaurant scene.
				The chairs are Thonet No. 18 with a narrow inner back loop.
Experiment Perilous	1944	Hedy Lamarr George Brent Paul Lukas Albert Dekker Carl Esmond Michael Visaroff Director: Jacques Tourneur		Allida Bederaux (Hedy Lamarr) and her Ballet Master (Michael Visaroff) at a lesson.
Experiment Perilous	1944			Detail The chair at the piano is a Thonet No. 18, casting a noir shadow.
Phantom Lady	1944	Franchot Tone Ella Raines Alan Curtis Thomas Gomez Director: Robert Siodmak		Jack Marlow (Franchot Tone) and Inspector Burgess (Thomas Gomez) in Marlow’s dressing room.
Phantom Lady	1944			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18 with a fabric cover. Similarly covered chairs are visible in the Blue Parrot bar in Casablanca, 1942 and Peter Gunn, 1958-1960.
When Strangers Marry	1944	Dean Jagger Kim Hunter Robert Mitchum Director: William Castle		Millie Baxter (Kim Hunter), at far left, enters a café.
When Strangers Marry	1944			The woman at the table in the foreground is sitting on a Thonet No. 18. The empty Thonet No. 18 in the foregrount casts a noir shadow on the tablecloth. A light-colored Thonet No. 45½ is across the table.
It Happened Tomorrow	1944	Dick Powell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie Director: René Clair		Sylvia Smith (Linda Darnell), part of a clairvoyant act with her uncle Oscar, in the audience of the Eden Gardens Theater.
				Detail The chair in the foreground is a Thonet No. 18.
				Sylvia Smith pretends to be in a trance as a waiter swings a Thonet No. 18 over her head to place it at a table.
				A later scene in a restaurant...
				The chairs are Thonet No. 45½, casting noir shadows with lighting from two different directions.
The Great Flamarion	1945	Erich von Stroheim Mary Beth Hughes Dan Duryea Director: Anthony Mann		Thonet No. 18 chairs appear in dressing room scenes. Here Connie Wallace (Mary Beth Hughes) pours a drink. Thonet No. 18s and No. 45s can also be seen on stage scenes.
Brief Encounter	1945	Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway Joyce Carey Director: David Lean		Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) and Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) in the Refreshment Room at the Milford Junction train station. This several second-long shot occurs less than three minutes into the film. The film returns again and again to the Refreshment Room.
				Detail Alec Harvey and Laura Jesson with Thonet No. 14s casting noir shadows.
				Detail Laura Jesson alone at a table in another shot. Thonet No. 14 chairs, casting noir shadows.
				Laura Jesson enters the Refreshment Room, passing a Thonet No. 14. Most of the chairs visible in The Refreshment Room are Thonet No. 14, but here, farther back, is a Thonet No. 54.
				Detail A Thonet No. 98 or similar behind Dr. Alec Harvey.
Fallen Angel	1945	Dana Andrews Linda Darnell Alice Faye Charles Bickford John Carradine Director: Otto Preminger		Within the first few minutes of Fallen Angel, Thonet chairs appear in Pop’s Eats, the diner that is central to the plot. Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews) enters and drops his coat on a Thonet No. 18.
Fallen Angel	1945			A bit later, Stella (Linda Darnell) enters and sits in a Thonet No. 18 to massage her aching feet. Thonet chairs also appear in Tavern/Dance Hall scenes and in a café scene.
The Lost Weekend	1945	Ray Milland Jane Wyman Howard Da Silva Director: Billy Wilder		Don Birnam (Ray Milland) contemplates a shot of whisky in Nat’s Bar, withThonet No. 18s (with the older circular leg braces) and Nat (Howard Da Silva) sets a table in the background. In the far corner is a Thonet clothes stand.
The Lost Weekend	1945			Detail
Scarlet Street	1945	Edward G. Robinson Joan Bennett Dan Duryea Director: Fritz Lang		Thonet chairs appear in the opening scene, a reception where Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) receives a gold watch for twenty-five years of service as a clerk. The chairs in this scene are Thonet No. 440s. The one in the background in this shot is casting a noir shadow.
				Christopher Cross and Katherine ‘Kitty’ March (Joan Bennet) eat at Tiny's (Lunch and Dinner). The café features Thonet No. 18s at the tables.
				On an apartment deck, a padded version of the Thonet S533, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
				In the last scene, Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs in a bar scene.
Detour	1945	Tom Neal Ann Savage Claudia Drake Director: Edgar G. Ulmer		Al Roberts (Tom Neal) plays Piano, while Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake) sings in the Break O' Dawn Club. Roberts is using a Thonet No. 45½.
Detour	1945	Tom Neal Ann Savage Claudia Drake Director: Edgar G. Ulmer		Detail of a later shot The rest of the band members also have Thonet No. 45½s.
Cornered	1945	Dick Powell Walter Slezak Micheline Cheirel Director: Edward Dmytryk		Thonet No. 18s, some stacked on a table.
The Clock	1945	Judy Garland Robert Walker James Gleason Director: Vincente Minnelli		Corporal Joe Allen (Robert Walker) and Alice Maybery (Judy Garland) in the background of a restaurant scene. The chairs in the foreground are Thonet No. 18 variant with narrow inner back loop.
The Clock	1945			Detail The leftmost chair casts a noir shadow on the tablecloth.
Whistle Stop	1946	George Raft Ava Gardner Victor McLaglen Tom Conway Director: Léonide Moguy		As Whistle Stop comes to a close, Gitlo (Victor McLaglen) drags badly wounded Kenny Veech (George Raft) to Estelle’s Road House after closing time. The scene opens with Estelle (Carmel Myers) working on the books. Though the road house is clearly closed and has no customers, the sign outside reads “Dine Dance Open All Night.”

				The camera zooms in to shoot through the upturned legs of Thonet No. 18 chairs. This combines the trope of upturned Thonet chairs signalling a closed establishment (and the end of the plot) with shooting through Thonet chairs.
The Stranger	1946	Edward G. Robinson Loretta Young Orson Welles Director: Orson Welles		A scene at about minute two in The Stranger prominently features a Thonet No. 18 with the early circular leg brace. Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) is orating in the back right. The Wikipedia entry on on this interesting film is well worth reading.
The Stranger	1946			Detail The inner back loop of the Thonet chair is missing one side, as if it was broken (Welles was on a severely restricted budget for this film) or modified. Another broken Thonet chair appears in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, 1960
The Best Years of our Lives	1946	Myrna Loy Fredric March Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo Harold Russell Director: William Wyler		Uncle Butch Engle (Hoagy Carmichael) and Homer Parrish (Harrold Russel) sit at the piano on Thonet No. 18s in Butch’s Bar.
The Best Years of our Lives	1946			A waiter serves Peggy Stephenson (Teresa Wright) and Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) seated in Thonet No. 18s in Lucia’s Restaurant.
The Killers	1946	Burt Lancaster Ava Gardner Edmond O'Brien Sam Levene Director: Robert Siodmak		Thonet No. 18s in a café scene. No. 18s appear in another scene, as well.
The Razor’s Edge	1946	Tyrone Power Gene Tierney John Payne Herbert Marshall Anne Baxter Clifton Webb Director: Edmund Goulding		Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), W. Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall), Isabel Bradley (Gene Tierney) and Gray Maturin (John Payne) in a dance bar scene with Thonet No. 18 chairs at the tables.
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				After the café scene, at around 37 minutes, the characters go to a dance club. The scene features a hot drum solo by real-life band leader Cee Pee Johnson.
				Detail The two visible chairs in the band are Thonet No. 18, with circular leg braces and optional back braces.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	1946	Barbara Stanwyck Van Heflin Lizabeth Scott Kirk Douglas Director: Lewis Milestone Byron Haskin (uncredited) Hal B. Wallis (uncredited)		Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) and Antonia “Toni” Marachek (Lizabeth Scott) walk into Farone’s Café (Cucina Italiana).
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	1946			Detail The chairs at the tables are Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs.
Abilene Town	1946	Randolph Scott Ann Dvorak Director: Edwin L. Marin		The band at the Drovers’ Hotel, Est. 1867, uses Thonet No. 18 chairs.
Abilene Town	1946	Randolph Scott Ann Dvorak Director: Edwin L. Marin		Detail
The Blue Dahlia	1946	Alan Ladd Veronica Lake William Bendix Director: George Marshall		After a fight in Gus’s Steaks early in the film.
The Blue Dahlia	1946			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18 and Thonet No. 45, casting noir shadows.
That Brennan Girl Tough Girl	1946	James Dunn Mona Freeman William Marshall June Duprez Director: Alfred Santell		Martin J. “Mart” Neilson (William Marshall) and Ziggy Brennan (Mona Freeman) dine at Fisherman’s Grotto in San Francisco. The chairs are Thonet No. 45½.
				Later, in the ladies’ room.
				The bent steel chairs are in the Thonet No. S 533 family.
Three Strangers	1946	Sydney Greenstreet Geraldine Fitzgerald Peter Lorre Colin Kenny Director: Jean Negulesco		Johnny West (Peter Lorre) watches the bartender (Colin Kenny) close The Blue Crown bar and inn.
Three Strangers	1946			Detail The chairs upside down on tables are Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs.
Nobody Lives Forever	1946	John Garfield Geraldine Fitzgerald Faye Emerson Director: Jean Negulesco		In the Coast Café
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 45½.
				Toni Blackburn (Faye Emerson) walks into Max’s Café.
				Detail A Thonet No. 18 on the left, a Thonet No. 45½ on the right
The Missing Lady	1946	Kane Richmond Barbara Read Director: Phil Karlson		A bar scene
The Missing Lady	1946	Kane Richmond Barbara Read Director: Phil Karlson		Detail The chairs at the table are Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs.
They Made Me a Fugitive	1947	Trevor Howard Sally Gray Griffith Jones Rene Ray as Cora Mary Merrall Director: Alberto Cavalcanti		Clem Morgan (Trevor Howard) and Aggie (Mary Merrall) in Narcy’s headquarters. Morgan is sitting on a Thonet No. 18 and a No. 54 sits empty on his right.
They Made Me a Fugitive	1947			In a later shot in the same set, the two Thonet chairs have been reversed, with the No. 54 now on the left and the No. 18 on the right. (cropped from screenshot).
It Always Rains on Sunday	1947	Googie Withers John McCallum Jack Warner Director: Robert Hamer		Thonet No. 14s.
The Bishop’s Wife	1947	Cary Grant Loretta Young David Niven Elsa Lanchester Director: Henry Koster		In the choir scene, the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir (and the organist) are using two Thonet models, both very similar to the No. 124 shown in the 1904 Thonet Catalog.
Kiss of Death	1947	Victor Mature Brian Donlevy Coleen Gray Richard Widmark Director: Henry Hathaway		In this ex-con going straight film noir, several clubs and restaurants figure prominently, but only the last one—where Nick Bianco (Victor Mature) confronts the killer Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark, in his first film)— features Thonet chairs. In Luigi’s (Sea Food, Cocktails): Thonet No. 18s and Thonet No. 45s.
Brute Force	1947	Burt Lancaster Hume Cronyn Charles Bickford Director: Jules Dassin		Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster) confronts Gallagher (Charles Bickford) in the prison printing shop, with a No. 18. The visitor’s room scene also has No. 18s.
Brute Force	1947			Detail
Dark Passage	1947	Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall Houseley Stevenson Director: Delmer Daves		Dr. Walter Coley (Houseley Stevenson) sizes up Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) before performing the plastic surgery that will change Parry’s appearance.
Dark Passage	1947			Detail A Thonet chair (model unknown) casts a noir shadow in Dr. Coley’s surgery.
Daisy Kenyon	1947	Joan Crawford Henry Fonda Dana Andrews Director: Otto Preminger		Peter Lapham (Henry Fonda) in a restaurant scene with Thonet No. 45s and No. 18s. Across the street from the restaurant, the Greenwich Theater is showing Mr. Lucky, a 1943 romance starring Cary Grant and Laraine Day.
Dancing with Crime	1947	Richard Attenborough Barry K. Barnes Sheila Sim Director: John Paddy Carstairs		In a restaurant scene (Fish Suppers Frying Nightly), Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough) center, with three models of Thonet chair visible: Back left, a Thonet No. 52½ (missing one back bar) and a No. 14 Front right, a Thonet No. 20.
Born to Kill	1947	Claire Trevor Lawrence Tierney Walter Slezak Phillip Terry Audrey Long Elisha Cook, Jr. Director: Robert Wise		In Mrs. Kraft’s boarding house, Thonet No. 33 chairs at the table. This model also appears in Rosemary’s Baby (1968).
Lured	1947	George Sanders Lucille Ball Charles Coburn Boris Karloff Director: Douglas Sirk		At a taxi dance hall, three Thonet chair models appear in the taxi dancers’ gallery. Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) has her hand on a No. 18, a No. 45½ sits on the left front row, and a No. 18 variant with a narrow inner back loop sits in the back row.
Lured	1947			Detail A later scene in the White Swan, with Thonet No. 18 chairs.
Out of the Past	1947	Robert Mitchum Jane Greer Kirk Douglas Rhonda Fleming Director: Jacques Tourneur		Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) in a Harlem club scene with Thonet No. 18s at the tables.
I Walk Alone	1947	Burt Lancaster Lizabeth Scott Kirk Douglas Wendell Corey Director: Byron Haskin		While walking through the kitchen in Dink Turner’s nightclub, Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) and Kay Lawrence (Lizabeth Scott) pass a Thonet No. 18 painted white. This chair has the optional side braces.
The Lady from Shanghai	1947	Rita Hayworth Orson Welles Everett Sloane Glenn Anders Ted de Corsia Director: Orson Welles		A café scene featuring a Thonet No. 18. Though the sign above the door of the café only reads “Liquors,” the scene was filmed in Sally Stanford’s Walhalla (Valhalla) waterfront bar and café in Sausalito, CA. The Walhalla sign is visible in other shots.
Johnny O'Clock	1947	Dick Powell Evelyn Keyes Lee J. Cobb Director: Robert Rossen		Johnny O'Clock (Dick Powell) enters the back room of the casino in which he’s a junior partner.
				A short time later, Johnny and Nancy Hobson (Evelyn Keyes) in the same room.
				Detail The chairs at the round gambling table are Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop.
Desert Fury	1947	John Hodiak Lizabeth Scott Burt Lancaster Wendell Corey Director: Lewis Allen		In a pivotal scene near the end of the film, Johnny Ryan (Wendell Corey), Eddie Bendix (John Hodiak) and Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott) walk into the back room of the Night Spot Cafe. A Thonet No. 18 in the left foreground
Desert Fury	1947			Detail In the right background, a Thonet No. 45½ casts a noir shadow.
Moss Rose	1947	Peggy Cummins Victor Mature Ethel Barrymore Director: Gregory Ratoff		A restaurant scene.
Moss Rose	1947			Detail In the background, a Thonet No. 45½. In the foreground, a Thonet No. 18.
Repeat Performance	1947	Louis Hayward Joan Leslie Tom Conway Richard Basehart Director: Alfred L. Werker		In a very brief scene in a blues club...
				Detail The chairs at the tables in the background are Thonet No. 391.
				In the asylum, Sheila Page (Joan Leslie) visits William Williams (Richard Basehart).
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Raw Deal	1948	Dennis O'Keefe Claire Trevor Marsha Hunt Raymond Burr Director: Anthony Mann		In the back room of Grimshaw’s Taxidermy, an empty Thonet No. 18 in the foreground bears mute witness to the double cross. Left to right: Grimshaw (Tom Fadden) Joe Sullivan (Dennis O’Keefe) Looming Bear (Stuffed Bear) Fantail (John Ireland) Another Thonet No. 18 can be seen in the background of the main room at Grimshaw’s.
Call Northside 777	1948	James Stewart Richard Conte Lee J. Cobb Helen Walker Director: Henry Hathaway		Thonet No. 18s and No. 45s at the tables of a bar. This is the bar where P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) finds a woman who knows Wanda Skutnik. The newspaper reads “Where is Wanda Skutnik?” The scene is part of a famous montage of bar scenes in the old Polish neighborhood of Chicago.
Highway 13	1948	Robert Lowery Pamela Blake Clem Bevans Michael Whalen Director: William Berke		In the Clover garage and diner where trucker Hank Wilson (Robert Lowery) meets his fiance, the waitress (Pamela Blake). The chairs at the tables—shown only in the background—are Thonet No. 124s, with the newer curved leg brace.
Highway 13	1948			Detail
I Remember Mama	1948	Irene Dunne Barbara Bel Geddes Oskar Homolka Ellen Corby Philip Dorn Rudy Vallee Director: George Stevens		Thonet No. 18 and noir shadow in a scene in the “Gentlemen’s.”
I Remember Mama	1948			A later scene in a hospital room.
Sorry, Wrong Number	1948	Barbara Stanwyck Burt Lancaster Ann Richards Wendell Corey Director: Anatole Litvak		Only seen briefly as the camera pans past the door to the kitchen in the Stevenson apartment, Thonet No. 45 with narrow inner back loop.
Sorry, Wrong Number	1948			Detail
A Song is Born	1948	Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Benny Goodman Tommy Dorsey Louis Armstrong Lionel Hampton Charlie Barnet Mel Powell Steve Cochran Director: Howard Hawks		Hobart Frisbee (Danny Kaye) next to a Thonet No. 18 chair in the private musicology research institute. Wikipedia entry on A Song is Born
A Song is Born	1948			The Golden Gate Quartet singing with a Thonet No. 18 as a prop.
The Fallen Idol	1948	Ralph Richardson Bobby Henrey Michèle Morgan Denis O'Dea Jack Hawkins Director: Carol Reed		Baines (Ralph Richardson) and Julie (Michèle Morgan) sit in Thonet No. 14s in an early scene in a restaurant. The empty chair on the left will soon be occupied by Philippe (Bobby Henrey), the third member of this tragic triangle. On the right, the chairs cast noir shadows on the wall and, importantly, on Baines’s back.
No Orchids for Miss Blandish	1948	Jack La Rue Hugh McDermott Linden Travers Walter Crisham Director: St John Legh Clowes	No Orchids for Miss Blandish is a remarkable British ganster film noir, set in New York and featuring a mostly British cast (who sometimes forget their American accents). At several points the film looks like a dark but loving pastiche of American film noir. Several of the characters are obvious stand-ins for American film noir actors or film noir trope characters. Several scenes are identifiable as homage to scenes from other noir films. The film even includes a stand-up comedy routine in which the comic does a quick-change act imitating a conversation between Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Part of the film’s pastiche is an amazing array of Thonet chair models, including one set with at least seven Thonet models.
				A bar set with a Thonet No. 20 in the foreground, a Thonet No. 15 and two Thonet No. 14s in the background.
				Five Thonet chairs appear in this scene: Thonet No. 18 in the foreground Thonet No. 14 just behind the 18 Thonet No. 124 right background Thonet No. 54 at the piano Thonet No. 118 against the wall left
				A restaurant scene with Thonet No. B 34 bent steel armchairs.
				The old codger who runs a country gas station is gunned down in his Thonet rocking chair.
				A restaurant scene shot from overhead (reminiscent of the ending of Citizen Kane) contains many Thonet No. S 533 bent steel chairs, some upsidedown on tables.
They Live by Night	1948	Cathy O'Donnell Farley Granger Howard Da Silva Jay C. Flippen Director: Nicholas Ray		Arthur “Bowie” Bowers (Farley Granger) and Catherine “Keechie” Mobley in a night club scene. Thonet No. 18 chairs at the tables.
They Live by Night	1948			Detail
A Foreign Affair	1948	Jean Arthur Marlene Dietrich John Lund Millard Mitchell Director: Billy Wilder		At the military airport waiting for the fog to clear. Colonel Plummer (Millard Mitchell) is in the background.
				Detail Both Thonet No. 45½ and No. 18 chairs are visible in this set.
				A romantic-comedy ending in the apartment of Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich). Captain John Pringle (John Lund) fends off Congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) with a Thonet No. 45½.
Force of Evil	1948	John Garfield Thomas Gomez Marie Windsor Howland Chamberlain Director: Abraham Polonsky		Frederick “Freddie” Bauer backs away from a killer in a restaurant scene.
Force of Evil	1948			Detail The chair, casting a noir shadow, is a Thonet No. 124 or similar, with a modern curved leg brace.
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes	1948	Don Castle Elyse Knox Regis Toomey Director: William Nigh		Ann Quinn (Elyse Knox) and Inspector Clint Judd (Regis Toomey) have coffee at a diner counter.
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes	1948	Don Castle Elyse Knox Regis Toomey Director: William Nigh		Detail In the background, a woman sits on a Thonet No. 18 chair at a table.
Homecoming	1948	Clark Gable Lana Turner Anne Baxter John Hodiak Director: Mervyn LeRoy		Lt. Jane “Snapshot” McCall (Lana Turner) alone at a table of an outdoor mess.
Homecoming	1948			Detail In the background, soldiers on a Thonet No. 45½ (left) and Thonet No. 18 (right.)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands	1948	Joan Fontaine Burt Lancaster Robert Newton Director: Norman Foster		In The Anchor and Dolphin pub.
				Detail The chairs at the tables are Thonet No. 18.
				In a pool hall scene.
				Detail The chairs in the pool hall are Thonet No. 18. This empty chair casts a noir shadow on the brick wall.
On the Town	1949	Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra Betty Garrett Ann Miller Vera-Ellen Director: Gene Kelly		Gabey (Gene Kelly) ogles two women in Symphonic Hall. An empty Thonet No. 18 with modern leg brace stands mute witness.
On the Town	1949			Gabey and Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen) in a dance routine in a later scene. A Thonet No. 18, with the old-style circular leg brace casts a noir shadow on the back wall. Another Thonet No. 18 sits on the far left.
In the Good Old Summertime	1949	Judy Garland Van Johnson S. Z. Sakall Spring Byington Clinton Sundberg Buster Keaton Liza Minnelli Director: Robert Z. Leonard Buster Keaton (uncredited)		A restaurant set features Thonet No. 18 and No. 45 ½ chairs.
In the Good Old Summertime	1949
Whisky Galore!	1949	Basil Radford Bruce Seton Joan Greenwood Gordon Jackson Director: Alexander Mackendrick		George Campbell (Gordon Jackson) escapes from his bedroom, with a Thonet No. 14 (with noir shadow) in the background.
Shockproof	1949	Cornel Wilde Patricia Knight John Baragrey Esther Minciotti Director: Douglas Sirk		An early scene in a bookie joint. Thonet No. 18s at the tables.
Criss Cross	1949	Burt Lancaster Yvonne De Carlo Dan Duryea Percy Helton Director: Robert Siodmak		Anna (Yvonne De Carlo) enters the Round-Up Bar in a dramatic shot with Thonet No. 18 and No. 45½ chairs casting noir shadows.
				Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) seated at a table in the Round-Up Bar while Frank (Percy Helton) gives him a talking to.
				Thonet No. 45½ in the foreground of a stark shot of a telephone booth in the Round-Up Bar.
Lust for Gold	1949			Julia Thomas (Ida Lupino) in the café section of her Phoenix, Arizona bakery.
				Detail The left chair is a Thonet No. 18, the right chair is a Thonet No. 45 variant with narrow inner back loop.
				In a later shot the drunken Jacob Walz (Glenn Ford) falls on the sidewalk. A Thonet No. 18 is shown through the bakery window.
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The Third Man	1949	Joseph Cotten Alida Valli Orson Welles Trevor Howard Director: Carol Reed		Harry Lime (Orson Welles) enters a bar. Note Dutch Angle in this shot.
The Third Man	1949			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 221.
The Great Sinner	1949	Gregory Peck Ava Gardner Melvyn Douglas Director: Robert Siodmak		Pauline Ostrovsky (Ava Gardner) and Fedya (Gregory Peck) in the casino at Wiesbaden. In an early shot in the casino, a Thonet chair is shown between the two, in the background, in another room, through a window.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 45½.
				As Fedya sits down to order a drink, an empty Thonet No. 45½ is across the table from him. Behind him, another empty Thonet chair is visible.
				The chair at the table behind Fedya is a Thonet No. 18 casting a noir shadow.
				Fedya and another Thonet No. 18. behind him, this time occupied.
Black Hand	1950	Gene Kelly J. Carrol Naish Teresa Celli Director: Richard Thorpe		A meeting room with three Thonet models visible: No. 45½, No. 18 variant with narrow inner loop, No. 18.
				In the Naples restaurant in Naples, Italy, Louis Lorelli (J. Carrol Naish) speaks with a waiter. The camera looks down a line of No. 45½, No. 18 variant with narrow inner loop and No. 18 Thonet chairs.
				Detail showing the chairs and their noir shadows.
				Lorelli in an office standing next to a Thonet No. 18 variant with narrow inner back loop.
Stage Fright	1950	Jane Wyman Marlene Dietrich Michael Wilding Richard Todd Alastair Sim Patricia Hitchcock Director: Alfred Hitchcock		On stage during a rehearsal at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) in the hoop skirt.
				Detail The chairs stacked in the background left are Thonet No. 14s.
				Another camera angle during the rehearsal.
				Detail The chair at the table is a Thonet No. 14.
The File on Thelma Jordon	1950	Barbara Stanwyck Wendell Corey Paul Kelly Director: Robert Siodmak		A restaurant scene early in the film.
The File on Thelma Jordon	1950			Detail The Thonet chairs may be examples of the dining chair designed by Gustav Siegel for Thonet in the early 1900s. Also see Teacher’s Pet 1958.
Woman on the Run	1950	Ann Sheridan Dennis O'Keefe Director: Norman Foster		Woman on the Run declares its noir sensibility with a Thonet No. 18 right at the beginining, when Eleanor Johnson (Ann Sheridan) lifts Rembrandt (actor uncredited) off of a Thonet No. 18.
Woman on the Run	1950	Ann Sheridan Dennis O'Keefe Director: Norman Foster		Thonet No. 18s show up in later scenes as well, for example, this one with the Thonet No. 18 in the foreground, used as a stand for a painting.
Young Man with a Horn	1950	Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall Doris Day Hoagy Carmichael Director: Michael Curtiz		Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael and Kirk Douglas in a hospital room scene. Thonet No. 45s in the background. Many other Thonet Chairs shown very briefly or barely visible, especially in Galba's Club.
Caged	1950	Eleanor Parker Agnes Moorehead Ellen Corby Hope Emerson Director: John Cromwell		Unknown model Thonet chair.
Quicksand	1950	Mickey Rooney Jeanne Cagney Barbara Bates Peter Lorre Bert Stevens Director: Irving Pichel		In the backroom of Gus’ Place, tables are set with Thonet No. 18 chairs.
				A customer (Bert Stevens, uncredited extra) leaves his table.
				The chair casts a noir shadow on the door.
				Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is just entering the scene at the far right down the bar hall.
The Asphalt Jungle	1950	Sterling Hayden Louis Calhern Jean Hagen James Whitmore Sam Jaffe John McIntire Director: John Huston		“Doc” Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) sits next to an empty Thonet No. 18, which is casting a noir shadow.
The Asphalt Jungle	1950			Detail In a separate shot, Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) stands next to a Thonet No. 18, also casting a noir shadow. A No. 45½ can be seen in other shots.
The Happy Years	1950	Dean Stockwell Darryl Hickman Scotty Beckett Leo G. Carroll Elinor Donahue Director: William Wellman		A shot during a pancake-eating contest features a Thonet No. 45½ and a Thonet No. 18.
The Breaking Point	1950	John Garfield Patricia Neal Phyllis Thaxter Juano Hernandez Director: Michael Curtiz		The Breaking Point is the second of three screen adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. All three have shots of Thonet chairs. In the dance bar scene, in Christian’s Hut, Leona Charles (Patricia Neal) sings among the tables.
The Breaking Point	1950			Detail The tables are set with simple ladder-back Thonet chairs with the Loop-shaped leg brace. Similar chairs appear in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, below.
Golden Salamander	1950	Trevor Howard Anouk Aimée Herbert Lom Jacques Sernas Director: Ronald Neame		Agno (Wilfrid Hyde-White) walks toward a table where a waiter lifts a Thonet No. 18 chair.
Borderline	1950	Fred MacMurray Claire Trevor Raymond Burr Director: William A. Seiter		Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) frowns at his beer while Madeleine Haley, posing as Gladys LaRue (Claire Trevor) gets up close during a dance routine in La Gran Fiesta (6 señoritas). The café tables all have Thonet No. 18 chairs.
No Man of Her Own	1950	Barbara Stanwyck John Lund Phyllis Thaxter Jane Cowl Lyle Bettger Director: Mitchell Leisen		A restaurant scene
No Man of Her Own	1950			Detail Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs at the tables.
Dark City	1950	Charlton Heston Lizabeth Scott Viveca Lindfors Dean Jagger Don DeFore Director: William Dieterle		At least three models of Thonet chairs are visible in Danny Haley’s gambling establishment. Arthur Winant (Don DeFore) smiles as the gamblers let him win.
				Detail Thonet No. 18
				Barney (Ed Begley) nurses his ulcer.
				Detail Thonet No. 45
				Fran Garland (Lizabeth Scott) looks fearfully at Danny Haley (off screen).
				Detail Thonet No. 440 or similar
No Way Out	1950	Richard Widmark Sidney Poitier Linda Darnell Stephen McNally Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz		Edie Johnson (Linda Darnell) waits and smokes in a pool hall.
No Way Out	1950			Detail Some of the chairs at tables in the pool hall are Thonet No. 18.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman	1951	Ava Gardner James Mason Nigel Patrick Sheila Sim Harold Warrender Mario Cabré Marius Goring Director: Albert Lewin		Pandora (Ava Gardner) appears early in a bar called Las Dos Tortugas (the two turtles). The bar’s chairs are Thonet No. 14s, with the older circular lower leg brace and optional back braces. Some have an added cane insert.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman	1951			Bullfighter Juan Montalvo (Mario Cabré) makes his dramatic entrance to Las Dos Tortugas later in the film(image cropped slightly).
Pool of London	1951	Bonar Colleano Earl Cameron Susan Shaw Director: Basil Dearden		Thonet No. 18 chairs in a dressing-room scene.
Pool of London	1951			Detail A noir shadow is barely visible on the left.
The Big Night	1951	John Drew Barrymore Preston Foster Joan Lorring Director: Joseph Losey		Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs in Tuffy's Tavern.
The Big Night	1951			Detail
On Dangerous Ground	1951	Ida Lupino Robert Ryan Ward Bond Director: Nicholas Ray Ida Lupino (uncredited)		Just glimpsed in a restaurant scene: a Melnikov Roundback café chair designed by Michael Thonet, or a variant.
His Kind of Woman	1951	Robert Mitchum Jane Russell Vincent Price Directors: John Farrow Richard Fleischer		Thonet No. 18s and No. 45½s in a diner.
The Mob	1951	Broderick Crawford Betty Buehler Richard Kiley Neville Brand Ernest Borgnine Charles Bronson Director: Robert Parrish		Johnny Damico, under cover as Tim Flynn (Broderick Crawford) nurses a beer in The Black Kitten bar, with an unoccupied Thonet No. 18 in the far background.
The Mob	1951			Detail
Thunder on the Hill	1951	Claudette Colbert Ann Blyth Robert Douglas Michael Pate Director: Douglas Sirk		Willie (Michael Pate) climbs the stairs in the hospital ward of the convent.
				Detail The chair on the landing is a Thonet No. 18, casting a noir shadow.
				Dr. Jeffreys (Robert Douglas) in the hospital lab.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet chair of unknown model number, also casting a noir shadow. This same model (or at least similar ones) can be seen in Swing Time, 1936, Dark Passage, 1947 and Caged, 1950.
The Prowler	1951	Van Heflin Evelyn Keyes Director: Joseph Losey		Susan Gilvray at center at a Coroner’s Inquest. The witness chair is at front left.
				Detail The witness chair is a Thonet No. 18. The shot through the chair shows a jury member’s hat.
				The Coroner’s Jury returns to deliver a death bty misadventure verdict.
				Detail The jury chairs are all Thonet No. 18.
The Scarf	1951	John Ireland Mercedes McCambridge James Barton Emlyn Williams Director: Ewald André Dupont		Connie Carter (Mercedes McCambridge) walks off camera in Level Louie’s bar/café.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18.
				Ezra Thompson (James Barton) and Connie Carter talking at a table in Level Louie’s bar/café.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 124 or similar, with the modern loop-shaped leg brace.
Come Back, Little Sheba	1952	Burt Lancaster Shirley Booth Terry Moore Director: Daniel Mann		Marie Buckholder (Terry Moore) and Turk Fisher (Richard Jaeckel) in The Ram bar, where tables are set with Thonet No. 18 and No. 45½ chairs.
Sudden Fear	1952	Joan Crawford Jack Palance Gloria Grahame Director: David Miller		The opening scene of Sudden Fear shows a rehearsal of Halfway to Heaven, a new Myra Hudson (Joan Crawford) play, with Thonet No. 18s on the stage set.
Sudden Fear	1952			Detail
The Greatest Show on Earth	1952	Betty Hutton Cornel Wilde Charlton Heston James Stewart Dorothy Lamour Gloria Grahame Lyle Bettger Director: Cecil B. DeMille		Four clowns and a Thonet chair. Clown two sits in the chair but clown one grabs clown two’s leg and jerks him off the chair into the air. As each of the next two clowns try to sit, the next clown in line jerks the chair away. The last clown attempts to sit in the chair flamboyantly, but accidentally knocks the chair over and falls to the mat. (Images cropped)
The Greatest Show on Earth	1952			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18 variant in which the inner loop extends below the seat to become leg braces.
Affair in Trinidad	1952	Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford Alexander Scourby Mort Mills Director: Vincent Sherman		Steve Emery (Glen Ford) and Martin, Wittol’s Henchman (Mort Mills) converse in The Caribe, Wittol’s nightclub.
				The right-side up chair is a Thonet No. 18 variant with a narrow back loop. The upside down chair is the usual No. 18.
				Detail
Moulin Rouge	1952	José Ferrer Zsa Zsa Gabor Suzanne Flon Director: John Huston		Houston’s Moulin Rouge is based on a 1950 novel by Pierre La Mure. In the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (José Ferrer) finishes a bottle of cognac.
				Detail Henri’s table is set with Thonet No. 14 chairs. (See At the Moulin Rouge in Thonet Chairs in Art.) A Thonet No. 54 is at the table in the background.
				As the Moulin Rouge closes, and partons leave, Thonet No. 14 chairs are stacked on tables, a movie trope denoting closing time. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is in the center of the frame.
Loan Shark	1952	George Raft Dorothy Hart Paul Stewart John Hoyt Henry Slate Director: Seymour Friedman		In a bar scene, Joe Gargen (George Raft) discusses his new loan with Paul Nelson (Henry Slate, facing camera) and other workers from the tire factory. The chairs are Thonet No. 18. Thonet chairs are also visible in other scenes.
Carbine Williams	1952	James Stewart Jean Hagen Wendell Corey Director: Richard Thorpe		Marsh Williams (James Stewart) in bed with appendicitis. A Thonet No. 45½ is next to his bed.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro	1952	Gregory Peck Ava Gardner Susan Hayward Marcel Dalio Director: Henry King		Harry Street (Gregory Peck) greets Emile, owner of Café Emile.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro	1952			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18 and Thonet No. 45, in dark brown and blond stains.
The Green Glove	1952	Glenn Ford Geraldine Brooks Sir Cedric Hardwicke George Macready Director: Rudolph Maté		Christine 'Chris' Kenneth (Geraldine Brooks) and Mike Blake (Glenn Ford) eat at a café while they're on the run.
				A closer shot from a different angle.
				Detail The chairs at the café are Thonet No. 54.
Vicki	1953	Jeanne Crain Jean Peters Elliott Reid Richard Boone Director: Harry Horner		Jill (Jeanne Crain) and Vicki (Jean Peters) in Webster’s Cafeteria. The chairs are Thonet No. 391 or similar, with the more modern curved leg braces.
Vicki	1953			Jill packing in Club Capri, with upholstered Thonet chairs.
From Here to Eternity	1953	Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift Deborah Kerr Frank Sinatra Donna Reed Ernest Borgnine Director: Fred Zinnemann		In a bar fight, Staff Sergeant James R. “Fatso” Judson (Ernest Borgnine) threatens Private Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra) with a knife. A Thonet No. 45½ is prominent in the foreground.
The Band Wagon	1953	Fred Astaire Cyd Charisse Oscar Levant Nanette Fabray Jack Buchanan Director: Vincente Minnelli		This is the final segment of the musical within a musical. The segment has a noir (ganster) motif, is set in “Dem Bones Café,” and features both Thonet No. 18s and No. 45s. Other scenes also feature Thonet chairs.
Innocents in Paris	1953	Alastair Sim Ronald Shiner Claire Bloom Margaret Rutherford Claude Dauphin Jimmy Edwards Director: Gordon Parry		Susan Robbins (Claire Bloom) and Dickie Bird (Ronald Shiner) in Bal Du Moulin Rouge. Thonet No. 18 and No. 45 are visible at tables.
				Detail A different view of Thonet No. 18 chairs in Bal Du Moulin Rouge.
				Thonet No. 54 chairs at an outdoor café.
The Fake	1953	Dennis O'Keefe Coleen Gray Hugh Williams Guy Middleton John Laurie Eliot Makeham and many others Director: Godfrey Grayson		Thonet No. 14
The Blue Gardenia	1953	Anne Baxter Richard Conte Ann Sothern Raymond Burr Jeff Donnell Richard Erdman George Reeves Nat King Cole Frank Kreig Frank Ferguson Director: Fritz Lang		Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter), Casey Mayo (Richard Conte), Drunk Reporter 1 (Frank Kreig) Drunk Reporter 2 (Frank Ferguson) in Bill’s Beanery.
The Blue Gardenia	1953			Detail The chairs at the table in the background are Thonet No. 391.
Journey to Italy	1954	Ingrid Bergman George Sanders Paul Muller Director: Roberto Rossellini		Paul Dupont (Paul Muller) moves a chair in La Bersagliera - Fish restaurant and typical cuisine. Background center, Katherine Joyce (Ingrid Bergman).
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18 with four arc leg braces.
				Paul Dupont seated at the end of the table nearest the camera. Background center, Alexander Joyce (George Sanders).
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18, but not the same model as the one he moved earlier. This chair has a ring-shaped leg brace. This shot comes after a cut in the film.
Sabrina	1954	Humphrey Bogart Audrey Hepburn William Holden John Williams Director: Billy Wilder	Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) walks into her room above the garage. The room is furnished almost entirely in Thonet furniture: Thonet No. 18 chairs at the table and desk, a Thonet rocking chair, a Thonet table and a Thonet bed headboard and footboard.
				Detail Thonet No. 18 chair at the table.
				Detail Thonet table.
				Detail Thonet Headboard and footboard. A similar headboard design appears in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, 1960.
The Last Time I Saw Paris	1954	Elizabeth Taylor Van Johnson Walter Pidgeon Donna Reed Eva Gabor Kurt Kasznar Director: Richard Brooks		Charles Wills (Van Johnson) enters the Dhingo Café after returning to Paris.. At least three models of Thonet chairs are visible at tables. In this frame, two Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop are stacked on a table.
				The Dhingo Café features heavily in the film, with characters returning there several times. In a flashback, Marion Ellswirth (Donna Reed) watches Charles from a back corner of the Dhingo.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18. The drawing on the wall also features a Thonet No. 18.
				Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) in a late scene in the film. She’s framed between a glass of whiskey and a Thonet No. 18 chair.
				Detail
The Far Country	1954	James Stewart Ruth Roman Corinne Calvet Walter Brennan John McIntire Jay C. Flippen Director: Anthony Mann		Judge Gannon (John McIntire) at a saloon table. Shown over his left shoulder is a Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair.
				Detail
				In a similarly laid out shot from a later scene, Marshal Rube Morris (Jay C. Flippen), Ben Tatem (Walter Brennan) and Jeff Webster (James Stewart) have drinks at a saloon table. In the background are another Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair and Renee Vallon (Corinne Calvet) heading for the door.
				Detail
The Glenn Miller Story	1954	James Stewart June Allyson Harry Morgan Nino Tempo Director: Anthony Mann		Wilbur Schwartz (Nino Tempo) auditions for the band.
The Glenn Miller Story	1954			The chair is a Thonet No. 18, painted red.
River of No Return	1954	Robert Mitchum Marilyn Monroe Tommy Rettig Rory Calhoun Director: Otto Preminger		Harry Weston (Rory Calhoun) sweet talking Kay Weston (Marilyn Monroe) in the Black Nugget Saloon.
River of No Return	1954			Detail The piano player is sitting on a Thonet No. 18 chair.
It Should Happen to You	1954	Judy Holliday Peter Lawford Jack Lemmon Michael O'Shea Director: George Cukor		Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) and Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon) in the 1029 Restaurant.
It Should Happen to You	1954			Detail The chair at right is a Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop. In the background, there's a Thonet No. 45 or 45½.
Phffft	1954	Judy Holliday Jack Lemmon Jack Carson Kim Novak Director: Mark Robson		Robert Tracey (Jack Lemmon) and Nina Tracey (Judy Holliday out of the frame to the left) in an unnamed restaurant.
				Detail The chair at left is a Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop.
				The chair (at right in the background above) is a Thonet No. 18. (The same restaurant set may have been used in Phffft and It Should Happen to You, above.)
The Big Knife	1955	Jack Palance Ida Lupino Wendell Corey Jean Hagen Rod Steiger Shelley Winters Director: Robert Aldrich		Hollywood actor Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) on a set for studio publicity stills. The chair is a Thonet No. 18 variant with narrow inner back loop.
The Big Knife	1955			Detail
The Big Combo	1955	Cornel Wilde Richard Conte Brian Donlevy Jean Wallace Director: Joseph H. Lewis		Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) walks behind a light-colored Thonet No. 18.
The Big Combo	1955			The only recognizable chair and the only unoccupied chair was intended for Nils Dreyer (John Hoyt), who’s just been murdered by Joe McClure (Brian Donlevy), left. Mr. Brown addresses the three henchmen: “I wanted him here alive.... I told you to go without guns. Which one of you changed my mind?”
I'll Cry Tomorrow	1955	Susan Hayward Richard Conte Eddie Albert Margo Jo Van Fleet Director: Daniel Mann		An early scene in I’ll Cry Tomorrow shows girls hoping to be chosen for a movie role—and their mothers—sitting on Thonet chairs.
				An empty Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop sits in between the two girls.
				Detail
Three Cases of Murder	1955	Alan Badel Orson Welles John Gregson André Morell Patrick Macnee		Three Cases of Murder is a so-called omnibus movie with three separate stories. This scene is in the middle segment “You Killed Elizabeth,” directed by David Eady. The chairs look like a more modern version of the No.12 or No. 393 shown in the 1904 Thonet Illustrated Catalogue.
French Cancan	1955	Jean Gabin Françoise Arnoul María Félix Édith Piaf Director: Jean Renoir		Café scenes feature Thonet chairs, as befits this consciously painterly film. Here two models appear to have the backs of the Thonet No. 14 and Thonet No. 18 models, but with trapezoidal seats. These chairs also have unusual leg bracing.
The Phenix City Story	1955	John McIntire Richard Kiley Kathryn Grant Director: Phil Karlson		Just the top of a Thonet No. 18 (lower right) in a bar scene.
Guys and Dolls	1955	Marlon Brando Jean Simmons Frank Sinatra Vivian Blaine Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz		In the gangster-romance musical Guys and Dolls, tables at Mindy’s are furnished with Thonet No. 18 chairs, with the optional back braces. Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) tries to sucker Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) into betting on whether Mindy’s sold more cheesecake or strudel the previous day.
Guys and Dolls	1955			Nathan sings to Miss Adelaide (Vivian Blaine) using one of the Thonet No. 18s as a prop. Also see Cover Girl, The Band Wagon and Cabaret.
Illegal	1955	Edward G. Robinson Nina Foch Hugh Marlowe Jayne Mansfield DeForest Kelley Director: Lewis Allen		Victor Scott (Edward G. Robinson)—in Joe’s Bar.
				Detail Thonet No. 18 chairs.
				Detail Thonet No. 45½ Chairs, with more Thonet No. 18s in the background. A Thonet No. 45½ appears in another scene, in the office of D.F. Jarvis Bail Bonds, where Victor Scott is getting his stomach pumped after drinking poison in a courtroom.
Man with the Gun	1955	Robert Mitchum Jan Sterling Henry Hull Barbara Lawrence Leo Gordon Claude Akins Director: Richard Wilson		Criterion Channel includes Man with the Gun in their collection labelled Western Noir. A woman mocking a gunfighter who shot a boy’s dog.
Man with the Gun	1955			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 24 or similar.
Wichita	1955	Joel McCrea Vera Miles Lloyd Bridges Peter Graves Sam Peckinpah Director: Jacques Tourneur		Detail In the bar of the Keno House, Gyp Clements (Lloyd Bridges) is knocked out of a Thonet No. 18, with narrow back loop.
Wichita	1955			Detail The arm chairs at the bar’s tables are Thonet No. 3 office chairs, or similar.
The Catered Affair	1956	Bette Davis Ernest Borgnine Debbie Reynolds Barry Fitzgerald Rod Taylor Director: Richard Brooks		Ralph Halloran (Rod Taylor) and Jane Hurley (Debbie Reynolds) meeting in a diner, with Thonet No. 45s (variant with narrow inner back loop).
The Catered Affair	1956			A later restaurant and dance hall scene with Thonet No. 18s.
The Killer Is Loose	1956	Joseph Cotten Rhonda Fleming Wendell Corey Alan Hale Jr. Director: Budd Boetticher		The room in which police are recording a tapped phone is furnished with Thonet No. 18 chairs. Here the shot is over the back of an empty chair.
The Killing	1956	Sterling Hayden Coleen Gray Vince Edwards Director: Stanley Kubrick		Maurice Oboukhoff (Kola Kwariani) and Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) in the “Academy of Chess and Checkers.” A Thonet No. 45 seems like a third party to the conversation in this shot. Both Thonet No. 18s and No. 45s are visible in several shots in the academy.
Time Table	1956	Mark Stevens King Calder Felicia Farr Director: Mark Stevens		A restaurant scene with Thonet No. 18 chairs.
Around the World in 80 Days	1956	David Niven Cantinflas many cameos including Marlene Dietrich Director: Michael Anderson		Marlene Dietrich between Thonet No. 18s.
Storm Center	1956	Bette Davis Brian Keith Kim Hunter Paul Kelly Director: Daniel Taradash		Thonet No. 18 chairs in the Free Public Library.

				The chair shown close up during the fire at the end of the film is a Thonet No. 18 variant with a narrow back loop.
The Man Who Knew Too Much	1956	James Stewart Doris Day Brenda de Banzie Bernard Miles Christopher Olsen Daniel Gélin Reggie Nalder Director: Alfred Hitchcock		The Ambrose Chapel figures importantly in the film. Jo Conway McKenna (Doris Day) initially thinks the name refers to a man, Ambrose Chappell. Instead of pews, the main floor contains rows of Thonet chairs, something like 90 chairs in all.
				Detail Two Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop and one No. 18 are empty in the front rows.
				After the parishoners leave, Ben McKenna (James Stewart) confronts Edward Drayton (Bernard Miles) who led the service.
				Detail Four models of Thonet chair can be identified on the floor, Thonet No. 18, No. 18 with narrow back loop, No. 45 and No. 45½. Previous shots show Ben McKenna through Thonet chair backs.
Bus Stop	1956	Marilyn Monroe Don Murray Arthur O'Connell Betty Field Eileen Heckart Director: Joshua Logan		Chérie (Marilyn Monroe) in her dressing room at the Blue Dragon Café.
Bus Stop	1956			Detail A Thonet No. 18 casts a noir shadow on Chérie’s dress.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	1956	Dana Andrews Joan Fontaine Barbara Nichols Director: Fritz Lang		Dolly Moore (Barbara Nichols) and Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) in a dressing room.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	1956			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 45½.
Top Secret Affair	1957	Susan Hayward Kirk Douglas Jim Backus Director: H.C. Potter		A nightclub scene, with Thonet No. 18s at the tables.
Witness for the Prosecution	1957	Tyrone Power Marlene Dietrich Charles Laughton Director: Billy Wilder		After a brawl in Die Blaue Laterne (The Blue Lantern), Thonet No. 18 chairs are among the wreckage. According to IMDB: “In order to show just one of Marlene Dietrich's famous legs, an entire scene was written that required 145 extras, 38 stunt men and $90,000.”
Witness for the Prosecution	1957			In a back room, where Christine Helm (Marlene Dietrich) lives, Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) reaches for a Thonet No. 18 that holds up the ceiling. He later knocks the chair over, bringing the ceiling down.
Sweet Smell of Success	1957	Burt Lancaster Tony Curtis Susan Harrison Martin Milner Director: Alexander Mackendrick		Early in the film, Joe Robard (Joseph Leon) in Robard’s Jazz Club, with Thonet No. 18s at the tables. Thonet No. 18 chairs are also visible (barely) in later shots in 21 Club.
Sweet Smell of Success	1957			Detail
The Smallest Show on Earth	1957	Bill Travers Virginia McKenna Peter Sellers Margaret Rutherford Bernard Miles Director: Basil Dearden		The Smallest Show on Earth is a British comedy in the tradition of American screwball comedies, with no hint of noir in the plot. The presence of Thonet No. 14 chairs in the Private Office of the Bijou Kinema (the “flea pit”) is a reference to the golden past of film (and film noir), as the Bijou is part of that past. Robin Carter (Leslie Phillips), Matt Spenser (Bill Travers) and Jean Spenser (Virginia McKenna) in the office.
The Smallest Show on Earth	1957			Jean Spenser in the the office with a noir shadow of the No. 14 she’s sitting on.
Fire Down Below	1957	Rita Hayworth Robert Mitchum Jack Lemmon Director: Robert Parrish		Near the end of the movie, in a bar, Felix sits in a Thonet No. 391 or similar, while Irena sits in another model, with a flat inner back panel.
Fire Down Below	1957			Detail The model with a flat inner back panel also appears in a later scene in a barber shop.
Nightfall	1957	Aldo Ray Brian Keith Anne Bancroft Director: Jacques Tourneur		In an early café scene, Thonet No. 18s, some with the narrow back loop.
Nightfall	1957			Detail
A Face in the Crowd	1957	Andy Griffith Patricia Neal Anthony Franciosa Walter Matthau Lee Remick Director: Elia Kazan		Thonet chairs In the background of a bar scene.
A Face in the Crowd	1957			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18 variant with a narrow inner back loop.
The Garment Jungle	1957	Lee J. Cobb Kerwin Mathews Gia Scala Richard Boone Valerie French Director: Vincent Sherman		Alan Mitchell (Kerwin Mathews) finds his father Walter Mitchell (Lee J. Cobb) murdered in the dress shop.
The Garment Jungle	1957			Detail An empty Thonet No. 18 at a desk in the near background.
The Tarnished Angels	1957	Rock Hudson Robert Stack Dorothy Malone Jack Carson Director: Douglas Sirk		Left to right, Jiggs (Jack Carson), Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson), Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) and LaVerne Shumann (Dorothy Malone) in the Airport Café.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18
				Near the end of the film, a wake for Roger Shumann is held at the Claude Mollet Café and Seafood Cellar. On the outdoor dining patio, Thonet No. 18 chairs are placed upside down on tables, a trope indicating the ending of a scene or film. Jiggs sits with a bottle of whisky as a drunk man approaches.
				Detail Thonet No. 18 with the older circular leg brace.
The Incredible Shrinking Man	1957	Grant Williams Randy Stuart April Kent Paul Langton Raymond Bailey Director: Jack Arnold		Robert “Scott” Carey (Grant Williams) speaks with Dr. Bramson (William Schallert) in the doctor’s office.
The Incredible Shrinking Man	1957			The chair in the background is an unknown Thonet model. This same model (or at least similar ones) can be seen in Swing Time, 1936, Dark Passage, 1947, Caged, 1950 and Thunder on the Hill, 1951.
Touch of Evil	1958	Charlton Heston Janet Leigh Orson Welles Joseph Calleia Akim Tamiroff Marlene Dietrich Zsa Zsa Gabor Director: Orson Welles		Uncle Joe Grandi (Akim Tamiroff) in his bar.
Touch of Evil	1958			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
The Gun Runners	1958	Audie Murphy Eddie Albert Patricia Owens Everett Sloane Director: Don Siegel		Sam Martin (Audie Murphy) rushes into the dance bar, using Thonet No. 18s to keep his balance. The Gun Runners is the third film version of Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. All three have shots of Thonet chairs.
Teacher’s Pet	1958	Clark Gable Doris Day Gig Young Mamie Van Doren Director: George Seaton		The Thonet chairs in this scene look like examples of the dining chair designed by Gustav Siegel for Thonet in the early 1900s, in this case with decorative nails. Also see The File on Thelma Jordon (1950).
Party Girl	1958	Robert Taylor Cyd Charisse Lee J. Cobb Director: Nicholas Ray		In Party Girl, Thonet chairs appear in a dressing room set, and in several bar scenes but are barely visible.
Party Girl	1958			The violent, climactic scene features a Thonet No. 18 in a corner, casting a noir shadow on the wall. Rico Angelo (Lee J. Cobb) realizes that the game is up, while the chair looks on.
Orders to Kill	1958	Eddie Albert Paul Massie Lillian Gish James Robertson Justice Irene Worth Philip Bond Leslie French John Crawford Director: Anthony Asquith		Thonet No. 54s (or similar) in a restaurant scene.
Orders to Kill	1958
Hong Kong Confidential	1958	Gene Barry Beverly Tyler Allison Hayes Director: Edward L. Cahn		Fay Wells (Beverly Tyler) at a nightclub piano, sitting on a Thonet No. 18 that casts a noir shadow.
Some Came Running	1958	Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Shirley MacLaine Director: Vincente Minnelli		Two Thonet No. 18s in a hotel room.
Bonjour Tristesse	1958	Deborah Kerr David Niven Jean Seberg Mylène Demongeot Geoffrey Horne Director: Otto Preminger		Cécile (Jean Seberg), Philippe (Geoffrey Horne) and Anne Larsen (Deborah Kerr) enter a casino.
Bonjour Tristesse	1958			Detail I the background a man is sitting on a painted Thonet No. 18 chair.
Peter Gunn 3 Seasons 114 Episodes Many episodes show Tonet chairs. In Season 2 Episode 2, Mother’s interior was wrecked by a riot started by protection racket hoodlums. In Season 2 Episode 3 and later, Mother’s has new decor, with no Thonet No. 18 chairs. Season 3 Episode 3, Mother’s was changed to “Edie’s,” with new decor. Maybe Mother retired and Edie Hart bought the business. Set Decoration for most episodes is credited to H. Web Arrowsmith and Henry Grace	1958 - 1961	Craig Stevens Lola Albright Bill Chadney Director: Blake Edwards		Season 1 Episode 2 “Street Car Jones” Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) enters Mother’s, a jazz club that Gunn uses an an office. Emmett (Bill Chadney), the resident piano player at Mother’s, plays while Gunn’s girlfriend Edie Hart (Lola Albright) looks over her shoulder.
				Detail The chairs in Mother’s—seen in many episodes—are Thonet No.18 or No. 45 with fabric back covers. (In some shots, chairs without covers are visible.) See also the covered chairs in The Blue Parrot, Casablanca, 1942 and in Phantom Lady, 1944.
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				Season 1 Episode 11 “Death House Testament” Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) and Edie Hart (Lola Albright) enter Joe’s Café, unaware that a hoodlum is holding a gun on customers.
				Detail The chairs in Joe’s Café are Thonet No. 18. Thonet No. 18 and other Thonet models appear in many episodes not set in Mother’s.
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				S1 E28 “Skin Deep” Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) enters Mother’s by the back door. He’s carefully framed by Thonet No. 18 chairs, some upside down on tables.
				In another carefully framed shot, Helena Mears (Katharine Bard) waits for Gunn in Mother’s.
				Detail The chair casting the noir shadow in the background is a Thonet No. 45.
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				S3 E3 “The Maître D'” This shot, in Edie’s jazz club, combines two tropes of film noir, filming through Thonet chairs and Thonet chairs upside down on tables after closing time. In the background, Lieutenant Jacoby (Herschel Bernardi) is on the phone.
				S3 E12 “Sepi” Detail The Thonet chairs in Edie’s jazz club are similar to a No. 321, with a caned back insert.
				S3 E12 “Sepi” Detail The Thonet chairs in Edie’s jazz club are similar to a No. 321, with a caned back insert.
The Crimson Kimono	1959	Victoria Shaw Glenn Corbett James Shigeta Director: Samuel Fuller		A Thonet No. 18 in Sugar Torchs’ (Gloria Pall) dressing room at the 258 Club.
				Shuto (played by the Japanese-American wrestler and stuntman Fuji) throws a Thonet No. 18 at Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) in a Pool Hall.
				Thonet No. 18s and No. 45s stacked on tables.
The Nun's Story	1959	Audrey Hepburn Peter Finch Edith Evans Peggy Ashcroft Director: Fred Zinnemann		This set, the day room in a mental hospital, is furnished with Thonet chairs, model unknown. There are also Thonet No. 18s barely visible, as well as a Thonet Kanapee.
Middle of the Night	1959	Fredric March Kim Novak Director: Delbert Mann		Jerry Kingsley (Fredric March), with his back to the camera, Betty Preisser (Kim Novak) and Walter Lockman (Albert Dekker) in the office of Kingsley’s garment factory.
Middle of the Night	1959	Fredric March Kim Novak Director: Delbert Mann		Detail Thonet No. 23 Writing Desk Armchair
Some Like It Hot	1959	Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon George Raft Joe E. Brown Director: Billy Wilder		Chicago, 1929 In Mozarella’s Funeral Parlor (24 Hour Service), “Spats” Colombo (George Raft) cleans his spat after a drunk spilled “coffee” on it.
Some Like It Hot	1959			Most of the chairs in Mozarella’s are Thonet No. 18s, some with the optional back brace like the one Spats’s henchman (Mike Mazurki) is sitting in. A Thonet No. 45 is visible in one shot.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery	1959	Steve McQueen David Clarke Crahan Denton Molly McCarthy Director: Charles Guggenheim John Stix		George Fowler (Steve McQueen) and Ann (Molly McCarthy) in a restaurant scene.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery	1959			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 45½.
The Journey	1959	Deborah Kerr Yul Brynner Jason Robards Director: Anatole Litvak		A russian soldier sets up chairs for passengers.
				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. Thonet No. 54.
				A later scene in a restaurant.
				The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
North by Northwest	1959	Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Jessie Royce Landis Director: Alfred Hitchcock		Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) enters a cafeteria (apparently filmed in the Buffalo Room of the Memorial View Building at Mount Rushmore).
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				Detail The chairs are similar to a Thonet No. 52½, with the modern Loop-shaped leg brace.
The Apartment	1960	Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine Fred MacMurray Jack Kruschen Edie Adams Director: Billy Wilder		About 6 minutes into The Apartment, C. C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) enters his apartment, which is furnished with four Thonet chairs. (Also see Irma la Douce, 1963. Edward G. Boyle was a set decorator for both movies, and for others directed by Wilder.)
				Detail Two Thonet No. 4 Café Daum chairs sit at a circular table with one half folded down. Two Thonet No. 15 armchairs also appear iacross the living room.
				Detail The right-hand Thonet No. 4 at the table casts a noir shadow on the tablecloth.
				Detail In a later scene, C. C. Baxter has his hand on the right-hand Thonet No. 4 chair, which is now missing part of the inner loop. See also another broken Thonet chair in The Stranger, 1946.
				In a late scene, Fran Kubelik is reclining in Baxter’s bed, which has an ornate Thonet bentwood headboard similar to the one in Billy Wilder’s Sabrina, 1954.
The Sundowners	1960	Deborah Kerr Robert Mitchum Peter Ustinov Dina Merrill Michael Anderson Jr. Director: Fred Zinnemann		While Zinnemann insisted on filming much of The Sundowners on location in Australia, interiors were filmed in Elstree Studios in England. Several sets feature Thonet chairs. The first is in a kitchen. A Thonet No. 14 is in the back right. (Cropped screenshot)
				A house Ida Carmody (Deborah Kerr) hopes to move into includes two Thonet chairs. The first, a Thonet No. 18 with optional arms, appears in two scenes. Here the chair awaits Bluey Brown’s wife, who’s about to have a baby.
				In another scene in the house, a Thonet No. 19 sits empty but prominently shown in the left foreground. It awaits Jean Halstead (Dina Merrill), who’s just entering.
				Jean Halstead carries the No. 19 to the table.
Ocean's 11	1960	Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford Joey Bishop Angie Dickinson Director: Lewis Milestone		In Burlesque Phoenix’s Finest, Thonet No.45½ and No. 18 chairs.
Ocean's 11	1960			Detail
One, Two, Three	1961	James Cagney Horst Buchholz Pamela Tiffin Arlene Francis Director: Billy Wilder		The “Grand Hotel Potemkin,” in East Germany, is furnished with Thonet chairs, No. 14, No 507 or similar, and other models. According to the script, the Grand Hotel Potemkin used to be the Great Hotel Göring, and before that, the Great Hotel Bismarck. The name “Grand Hotel Potemkin,” may refer to the 1925 Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin, but seems at least as likely to refer to a Potemkin village—a fake village—and the “Grand Hotel Potemkin,” is a fake “grand” hotel.
One, Two, Three	1961			Both images cropped from widescreen screenshots.
Paris Blues	1961	Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Sidney Poitier Louis Armstrong Diahann Carroll Serge Reggiani Director: Martin Ritt		The first view of a Thonet chair in Paris Blues—a No. 14—comes at just 45 seconds into the credits, behind guitarist Michel “Gypsy” Devigne (Serge Reggiani).
				Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) seated behind the piano player on a Thonet No. 18.
				Detail The piano player’s Thonet No. 18 has optional back braces and four curved leg braces, as shown in the bottom row of Thonet Chair Models. Some band practice scenes show Thonet chairs and stools jumbled upside down on tables.
The Hustler	1961	Paul Newman Jackie Gleason Piper Laurie George C. Scott Director: Robert Rossen		Thonet No. 45 in a bar scene.
The Hustler	1961			Thonet No. 18 upstairs in the pool hall.
One-Eyed Jacks	1961	Marlon Brando Karl Malden Katy Jurado Ben Johnson Pina Pellicer Slim Pickens Elisha Cook, Jr. Director: Marlon Brando		In a barroom shootout scene, three models of Thonet chairs are visible: No. 18, No. 45 variant with narrow inner back loop and No. 18 variant with narrow inner back loop.
One-Eyed Jacks	1961			Hauling the body, shot through two Thonet chairs.
The Children's Hour	1961	Audrey Hepburn Shirley MacLaine James Garner Miriam Hopkins Fay Bainter Karen Balkin Director: William Wyler		A piano recital at the Wright-Dobie School for Girls.
				Detail The chair at the piano is a Thonet No. 18.
				In the foreground, with her back to the camerra, Karen Wright (Audrey Hepburn) In the background, Martha Dobie (Shirley MacLaine)
				Detail In the background, right, a Thonet No. 18 casts a noir shadow.
Lover Come Back 1962		Rock Hudson Doris Day Tony Randall Director: Delbert Mann		Carol Templeton (Doris Day) and Jerry Webster (Rock Hudson) in a seafood restaurant.
Lover Come Back 1962		Rock Hudson Doris Day Tony Randall Director: Delbert Mann		Detail The chiars are all Thonet No. 18, painted seafoam blue or seafoam green.
David and Lisa	1962	Keir Dullea Janet Margolin Howard Da Silva Director: Frank Perry		Thonet No. 18 in a single scene in the dining room of the residential psychiatric treatment center. Some other chairs in this set may be Thonet No. 18s with cloth back and seat covers.
Two Weeks in Another Town	1962	Kirk Douglas Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse George Hamilton Claire Trevor Daliah Lavi Rosanna Schiaffino Director: Vincente Minnelli		This empty Thonet No. 18 sits in front of the first row in a studio screening room, between director Maurice Kruger (Edward G. Robinson) and the screen. Kruger seems to be resting his feet on the chair. (The movie they’re watching is The Bad and the Beautiful, also starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Vincente Minnelli.)
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				Detail from the shot as Kruger is leaving the screening room.
Hell Is for Heroes	1962	Steve McQueen Bobby Darin Fess Parker Michele Montau Director: Don Siegel
The Manchurian Candidate	1962	Frank Sinatra Laurence Harvey Janet Leigh Angela Lansbury Henry Silva James Gregory Director: John Frankenheimer		The famous Ladies’ Garden Club scene in The Manchurian Candidate shows the ladies sitting in a wide variety of chairs, including Thonet No. 18 chairs painted white.
The Manchurian Candidate	1962			Detail The point of view of the soldiers also shows a Thonet No. 18.
Requiem for a Heavyweight	1962	Anthony Quinn Jackie Gleason Mickey Rooney Julie Harris Director: Ralph Nelson		Probably a Thonet No. 18 that Luis "Mountain" Rivera (Anthony Quinn) is sitting on. From a television script by Rod Serling.
Walk on the Wild Side	1962	Laurence Harvey Capucine Jane Fonda Anne Baxter Barbara Stanwyck Director: Edward Dmytryk		Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) walks into Teresina’s Cafe, run by Teresina Vidaverri (Anne Baxter).
				Detail The chairs at the table near the pay phone are a Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop nearest the camera, and a Thonet No. 98 variant in the background.
				Dove Linkhorn (Laurence Harvey) in earnest conversation with Teresina (offscreen left, behind the counter).
				Detail The same Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop casting a noir shadow.
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace	1962	Christopher Lee Thorley Walters Senta Berger Hans Söhnker Ivan Desny and others Director: Terence Fisher		Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) and Dr. Watson in the Inspector’s office.
				Detail Behind Holmes is a Thonet No. 18 chair casting a noir shadow on the far wall.
				The same set from another angle.
				The empty chair in the foreground left is a Thonet No. 18, probably the same one as in the shot above.
Irma la Douce	1963	Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine Lou Jacobi Herschel Bernardi Director: Billy Wilder		Irma la Douce (Irma the Sweet) features Thonet chairs and other Thonet furniture more than any movie I’ve seen. Detail Irma enters Chez Moustache (bar and poolroom).
				Chez Moustache has Thonet No. 45s at the tables and at least one Thonet bar stool at the bar.
				Near the end of the movie, as Moustache mops the floor, Thonet chairs are shown stacked on tables, a noir trope. One shot is through the chairs with important action—a police car arriving— outside the bar.
				Irma’s “office” (bedroom), contains at least three styles of Thonet chair, including a Thonet armchair very similar to a No. 3.
				The inspector’s office includes a Kanapee (sofa), similar to No. 12, a Kleiderstock (clothes stand) similar to No. 4 in the 1904 Thonet catalog, or the Café Daum coatstand, and what looks like a red upholstered Thonet chair. (See The Apartment, 1960 Edward G. Boyle was a set decorator for both movies, and for others directed by Wilder.)
Donovan's Reef	1963	John Wayne Lee Marvin Elizabeth Allen Jack Warden Cesar Romero Dick Foran Dorothy Lamour Marcel Dalio		Marquis Andre de Lage (Cesar Romero) shows off his telescope, with a Thonet office stool based on the No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair.
				Detail Thonet office stool based on the No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair. Note the combined footrest and lower leg brace loop.
				Thomas Aloysius ‘Boats’ Gilhooley (Lee Marvin) in a restaurant scene.
				The chairs are Thonet No. 3 Writing Desk Armchairs, often seen in restaurant scenes.
The Train	1964	Burt Lancaster Paul Scofield Jeanne Moreau Michel Simon Direcor: John Frankenheimer		Thonet No. 54s appear in several restaurant scenes—Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) center. Another scene briefly shows the top of a Thonet No. 18.
The Train	1964			Detail
Fanfare for a Death Scene	1964	Richard Egan Al Hirt Viveca Lindfors Tina Louise Telly Savalas Burgess Meredith Edward Asner Khigh Dhiegh Director: Leslie Stevens		Fanfare for a Death Scene, a made-for-TV pilot for an unsold series to be titled “Stryker,” ends with an extravaganza of Thonet No. 18 chairs during a shootout at an orchestra concert. Some of the chairs appear to have been painted. John Stryker (Richard Egan) shoots between Thonet chairs at a henchman (Khigh Dhiegh), in a shot framed by Thonet chairs.
				Stryker rolls over, knocking down one Thonet chair, and shoots again,
				Below, the dying henchman falls into the orchestra pit, also full of Thonet chairs, including a No. 18 casting a noir shadow.
The World of Henry Orient	1964	Peter Sellers Paula Prentiss Merrie Spaeth Tippy Walker Tom Bosley Angela Lansbury Director: George Roy Hill		Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) and Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss) in Gino’s, a “spaghetti joint.” Thonet No. 18s at the tables.
Man’s Favorite Sport?	1964	Rock Hudson Paula Prentiss Maria Perschy Charlene Holt Director: Howard Hawks		Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) and Abigail Page (Paula Prentiss) in a seafood restaurant.
				Detail Most of the chairs at tables are Thonet No. 18.
				A shot from another angle
				Detail One of the chairs in the background (on the right) is a Thonet No. 45½.
Bunny Lake Is Missing	1965	Laurence Olivier Carol Lynley Keir Dullea Director: Otto Preminger		Ann Lake (Carol Lynley) escapes from a hospital through the dark basement, passing behind a prominently displayed Thonet No. 14.
Bunny Lake Is Missing	1965			Detail
The Big Valley Season 1 Episode 1 “Palms of Glory”	1965	Barbara Stanwyck Richard Long Lee Majors Linda Evans Peter Breck Director: William Graham		The Barkley Ranch in Stockton, California.
The Big Valley Season 1 Episode 1 “Palms of Glory”	1965			Detail Two Thonet No. 15 armchairs and a Thonet No. 3 writing desk armchair on the porch.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton George Segal Sandy Dennis Director: Mike Nichols		In the Red Basket Roadhouse “Cocktails - Dancing,” two models of Thonet chairs appear on camera: Thonet No. 18 chairs, the variant with a narrow inner back loop, behind Martha (Elizabeth Taylor).
				Another No. 18 variant, with noir shadow, behind George (Richard Burton), under the Squirt sign.
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				Detail A ladder-back Thonet chair, complete with noir shadow.
Torn Curtain	1966	Paul Newman Julie Andrews Director: Alfred Hitchcock		Near the end of the film, Professor Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), background, and Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) enter an East Berllin café with exiled Polish countess Kuchinska (Lila Kedrova), who wants them to sponsor her to emigrate to the United States.
Torn Curtain	1966	Paul Newman Julie Andrews Director: Alfred Hitchcock		Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18 and No. 45½.
Gambit	1966	Shirley MacLaine Michael Caine John Abbott Herbert Lom Roger C. Carmel Arnold Moss Director: Ronald Neame		Harry Tristan Dean (Michael Caine) and Emile Fournier (John Abbott) in a Hong Kong nightclub. The chair, featured in the foreground in several shots, is a Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop.
				The two discover Nicole Chang (Shirley MacLaine) at a table.
				Detail The chairs at the tables are mostly Thonet No. 18.
Wait Until Dark	1967	Audrey Hepburn Alan Arkin Richard Crenna Jack Weston Director: Terence Young		Carlino (Jack Weston) and Roat (Alan Arkin) walk toward the kitchen of Susy Hendrix’s (Audrey Hepburn) apartment.
				Detail The chairs at the kitchen table are Thonet No. 19 with the older circular leg brace.
				Mike Talman (Richard Crenna) and Carlino attack Roat in the living room of the apartment.
				The chairs in the living room are Thonet No. 20, with the older circular leg brace. Tallman’s stance looks remarkably like that of lion tamer Clyde Beatty, but Tallman is swinging a 35mm camera by its strap instead of brandishing a bullwhip. (See Taming Trump at the end of Thonet Chairs Extras.)
				Susy Hendrix staggers when she realizes the danger she's in. Between her and the kitchen is the living room Thonet rocking chair shown in several shots. There's not enough of the rocker shown in the film to determine the model.
The Killing of Sister George	1968	Beryl Reid Susannah York Coral Browne Director: Robert Aldrich		Thonet No. 18 in a restroom.
Bullitt	1968	Steve McQueen Robert Vaughn Jacqueline Bisset Robert Duvall Director: Peter Yates		In one scene, Lt. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) meeets an informant at Enrico's Restaurant, a famous resturant in San Francisco from 1959 to 2006. Bullitt is in the background left, just entering the restaurant.
Bullitt	1968			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 45½ and Thonet No. 18, the variant with the narrow back loop.
Rosemary's Baby	1968	Mia Farrow John Cassavetes Ruth Gordon Sidney Blackmer Maurice Evans Ralph Bellamy Angela Dorian Director: Roman Polanski		Thonet No. 33 chairs show up in several shots of the kitchen. Another Thonet chair can be seen in a bedroom scene.
The Sergeant	1968	Rod Steiger John Phillip Law Ludmila Mikaël Director: John Flynn		This screenshot is from the climactic scene where Sgt. Callan (Rod Steiger) kisses PFC Swanson (John Phillip Law) in a bar. The chairs are Thonet No. 56 (1904 catalog) with the newer arched lower braces.
The Sergeant	1968			Detail
The Wild Bunch	1969	William Holden Ernest Borgnine Robert Ryan Edmond O'Brien Warren Oates Jaime Sánchez Ben Johnson Director: Sam Peckinpah		Two Thonet chairs appear in this scene. They look like part of the No. 19 - No. 31 series shown in the 1904 Thonet Illustrated Catalogue.
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The Cheyenne Social Club	1970	James Stewart Henry Fonda Shirley Jones Sue Ane Langdon Director: Gene Kelly		The bar set in The Cheyenne Social Club includes Thonet No. 18 chairs and at least one No. 18 variant with the narrow inner loop.
The Cheyenne Social Club	1970			Detail
Rio Lobo	1970	John Wayne Jorge Rivero Jennifer O'Neill Jack Elam Christopher Mitchum Director: Howard Hawks		In a saloon scene, there are Thonet No. 18s at the table near the stairs and on stage. The closer tables have No. 3 writing desk armchairs.
Rio Lobo	1970			Detail
The Phantom Tollbooth	1970	Butch Patrick Mel Blanc Chuck Jones Director: Chuck Jones Abe Levitow Dave Monahan (live action)		Thonet No. 18 chairs at a table early in the live action segment of the film.
The Looking Glass War	1970	Christopher Jones Pia Degermark Ralph Richardson Anthony Hopkins Paul Rogers Director: Frank Pierson		John Avery (Anthony Hopkins) and Haldane (Paul Rogers) enter an apartment/office.
				Detail The chair in the background is a Thonet No. 14.
				Detail A room upstairs contains two more Thonet No. 14 chairs.
				The Girl (Pia Degermark) in her apartment sitting in a Thonet Rocking Chair.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	1971	Warren Beatty Julie Christie René Auberjonois Michael Murphy Shelley Duvall Keith Carradine Director: Robert Altman		The bar set in McCabe & Mrs. Miller includes at least two Thonet models.
				Detail A Thonet No. 45½ in front of John McCabe (Warren Beatty) and Constance Miller (Julie Christie) and a Thonet No. 18 to the left.
				Thonet No. 18 variants with narrow inner loop at a gambling table.
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Doc	1971	Stacy Keach Faye Dunaway Harris Yulin Michael Witney Denver John Collins Dan Greenburg Director: Frank Perry		Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin) walks into a bar.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop.
				Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach) talks with The Kid (Denver John Collins).
				Detail The chair in the background is similar to a Thonet No. 68 with a single inner back loop.
Cabaret	1972	Liza Minnelli Michael York Joel Grey Director: Bob Fosse		The famous opening scene of Cabaret is full of Thonet chairs, mostly No. 18s.
A Doll’s House	1973	Jane Fonda Edward Fox Trevor Howard Director: Joseph Losey		Thonet No. 18s In the Kaffe Salon.
A Doll’s House	1973	Jane Fonda Edward Fox Trevor Howard Director: Joseph Losey		Detail
Emergency! Season 3 Episode 18 “How Green Was My Thumb?”	1974	Kevin Tighe Randolph Mantooth Director: Christian I. Nyby II		Fire in a winery.
The Front Page	1974	Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Charles Durning David Wayne Susan Sarandon Austin Pendleton Carol Burnett Director: Billy Wilder		In Wilder’s widescreen take on The Front Page, a Thonet No. 18 sits outside the office of Walter Burns’ (Walter Mathau).
				Detail Hildebrand ‘Hildy’ Johnson (Jack Lemmon) walks out after telling Burns he’s quitting and getting married.
				In a later scene, Mollie Malloy (Carol Burnett) fights off a crowd of journalists with a Thonet chair (unknown model). (Burnet’s action pose is reminiscent of Clyde Beatty taming lions with a Thonet No. 18. See Thonet Chairs in Art .)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia	1974	Warren Oates Isela Vega Robert Webber Gig Young Helmut Dantine Director: Sam Peckinpah		Thonet No. 14s in a restaurant scene.
The Cars That Ate Paris	1974	John Meillon Terry Camilleri Kevin Miles Director: Peter Weir		A resident of Paris, Australia working on a craft project involving parts of wrecked cars.
The Cars That Ate Paris	1974			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18.
Russian Roulette	1975	George Segal Cristina Raines Denholm Elliott Louise Fletcher Director: Lou Lombardo		Cpl. Timothy Shaver (George Segal) walks by a bathroom while checking out an apartment.
Russian Roulette	1975			Detail The chair in the bathroom is a Thonet No. 18 painted white.
Shampoo	1975	Warren Beatty Julie Christie Goldie Hawn Lee Grant Jack Warden Tony Bill Director: Hal Ashby		Detail George Roundy (Warren Beatty) and Felicia Karpf (Lee Grant) at a Republican election-night party. The chair in the foreground is a Thonet No. 18.
				Jill Haynes (Goldie Hawn) and Dennis Lolly (Randy Scheer) in another room at the party.
				Detail The chair looks like a No. 45 with the inner loop extending down to the rear legs.
Columbo Season 2 Episode 1 “Étude in Black”	1976	Peter Falk Director: Nicholas Colasanto		Thonet No. 18s at a ballet school.
A Star is Born	1976	Barbra Streisand Kris Kristofferson Gary Busey Director: Frank Pierson		In this third version of A Star is Born, John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) first sees Esther Hoffman (Barbra Streisand) singing in a bar, and a fight breaks out. The bar’s tables are furnished with Thonet No. 18 chairs.
Emergency! Season 6 Episode 10 “Welcome to Santa Rosa County”	1976	Kevin Tighe Randolph Mantooth Director: Christian I. Nyby II		Thonet No. 45 and No. 18
Emergency! Season 6 Episode 3 “The Unlikely Heirs"	1976	Kevin Tighe Randolph Mantooth Director: Georg Fenady		A fire at a stage set.
Julia	1977	Jane Fonda Vanessa Redgrave Jason Robards Hal Holbrook Rosemary Murphy Maximilian Schell Director: Fred Zinnemann		Thonet No. 18s in a restaurant scene.
Columbo Season 7 Episode 1 “Try and Catch Me”	1977	Peter Falk Director: James Frawley		Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop in a restaurant.
The Turning Point	1977	Shirley MacLaine Anne Bancroft Tom Skerritt Mikhail Baryshnikov Leslie Browne Director: Herbert Ross		Emilia Rodgers (Leslie Browne) and DeeDee Rodgers (Shirley MacLaine)
The Turning Point	1977			Detail Thonet No. 18
Despair	1978	Dirk Bogarde Andréa Ferréol Klaus Löwitsch Volker Spengler Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder		An outdoor café table.
Despair	1978			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
The Cat from Outer Space	1978	Ken Berry Sandy Duncan Harry Morgan Ronnie Schell Roddy McDowall McLean Stevenson Director: Norman Tokar		Jake / Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7 (Rumpler or Amber)
The Cat from Outer Space	1978			Detail Jake is perched—complete with noir shadow—on a Thonet-style office stool with a back similar to a No. 3 Writing Desk Armchair.
Time After Time	1979	Malcolm McDowell David Warner Mary Steenburgen Director: Nicholas Meyer		Detail H. G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) i the apartment of Amy Robbins (Mary Steenburgen). Her table has two chrome Thonet No. 16–style chairs.
Airplane!	1980	Robert Hays Julie Hagerty Leslie Nielsen Peter Graves Lloyd Bridges Robert Stack Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Barbara Billingsley Director: Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker		Thonet chairs appear in a flashback scene in an old-timey bar. Detail Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop.
				Still in the flashback, two “girl scouts” start a barroom brawl after one cheats at poker.
				Detail The chair might be a Thonet No. 24.
				Later, as the “girl scouts”continue their brawl, Thonet bar stools are shown at the bar.
				Detail See Irma La Douce, 1963.
The Ninth Configuration	1980	Stacy Keach Scott Wilson Jason Miller Ed Flanders Director: William Peter Blatty		Early scenes in The Ninth Configuration feature a Thonet No. 14 painted green.
The Ninth Configuration	1980			Detail Later, in Kane’s office in the castle, there are two Thonet No. 14s for visitors.
Escape from New York	1981	Kurt Russell Lee Van Cleef Ernest Borgnine Donald Pleasence Isaac Hayes Harry Dean Stanton Adrienne Barbeau Director: John Carpenter		A pit band in the theater scene is seated on Thonet No. 45 variant, and Thonet No. 18 chairs, painted light gray. Some of the chairs have the optional back braces and some have the older-style circular leg brace. The violinist, center right, is played by the director, John Carpenter.
Escape from New York	1981			Detail
Rich and Famous	1981	Jacqueline Bisset Candice Bergen David Selby Hart Bochner Director: George Cukor		In Rich and Famous, George Cuckor’s final film, Thonet No.16 chairs at a dining table in the home of Merry Noel Blake’s (Candice Bergen).
Tootsie	1982	Dustin Hoffman Jessica Lange Teri Garr Dabney Coleman Charles Durning Bill Murray Sydney Pollack as George Fields, Michael's agent Director: Sydney Pollack		Jeff Slater (Bill Murray) exits stage left.
Tootsie	1982			The kitchen table, with wig and makeup. The left chair is a Thonet No. 54. In a later scene, Jeff circles the table, grabbing the Thonet chair as he goes around.
Gallipoli	1981	Mark Lee Mel Gibson Bill Ker Harold Hopkins Director: Peter Weir		A café scene early in the film.
				Detail Thonet No. 31 chairs at the tables.
				Detail Thonet No. 14 chairs (with solid seat) in a later café scene.
Absence of Malice	1981	Paul Newman Sally Field Director: Sydney Pollack		Megan Carter (Sally Field) and Gallagher (Paul Newman) dine in Caramba’s.
Absence of Malice	1981	Paul Newman Sally Field Director: Sydney Pollack		Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 16.
The Year of Living Dangerously	1982	Mel Gibson Sigourney Weaver Bill Kerr Michael Murphy Linda Hunt Noel Ferrier Director: Peter Weir		Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver) and Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) having drinks at a dockside outdoor café. From the screenplay: “They sit outside at a small, nondescript bar overlooking the harbour.”
				Detail The chairs are in the style of Thonet No. 14, in bent bamboo or faux bamboo.
				A later indoor scene.
				Thonet No. 14 chair with a solid or plywood seat.
The Verdict	1982	Paul Newman Charlotte Rampling Jack Warden James Mason Milo O'Shea Director: Sidney Lumet
Buffalo Bill Season 1 Episode 2 “Buffalo Beat”	1983	Dabney Coleman Max Wright Joanna Cassidy Geena Davis John Fiedler Director: Tom Patchett		No. 18 and No. 16
L'argent	1983	Christian Patey Béatrice Tabourin Didier Baussy Vincent Visterucci Director: Robert Bresson		Thonet No. 54 (or similar) in a restaurant scene near the end of the film.
Lianna	1983	Linda Griffiths Jane Hallaren Jon DeVries Director: John Sayles
WarGames	1983	Matthew Broderick Dabney Coleman John Wood Ally Sheedy Director: John Badham		Thonet No. 18 chairs (with narrow inner loop) in 20 Grand Palace game arcade.
The Trip to Bountiful	1985	Geraldine Page John Heard Carlin Glynn Richard Bradford Rebecca De Mornay Director: Peter Masterson		Jessie Mae (Carlin Glynn) sits on a Thonet No. 19 in Sam’s Pharmacy.
The Trip to Bountiful	1985			In a late scene in a bus station, Mrs. Watts (Geraldine Page) and an unocupied Thonet No. 98, or a similar model in the 90 series.
The Key to Rebecca (TV movie)	1985	Cliff Robertson David Soul Season Hubley Elene Fontana Lina Raymond Anthony Quayle David Hemmings Robert Culp Director: David Hemmings		Elene Fontana (Season Hubley) and Maj. William Vandam (Cliff Robertson) in an outdoor café scene. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				Alex Wolff (David Soul) and Abdullah (Anthony Quayle) at another table.
				Detail In a later scene in a club, Thonet No. 391 chairs at the tables.
Clue	1985	Eileen Brennan Tim Curry Madeline Kahn Christopher Lloyd Michael McKean Martin Mull Lesley Ann Warren Director: Jonathan Lynn		Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd) in the basement with the Thonet chair!
Clue	1985			The chair in the background is a Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop.
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart	1985	Laureen Chew Kim Chew Victor Wong Ida F. O. Chung Cora Miao Joan Chen Amy Hill Director: Wayne Wang		Uncle Tam (Victor Wong) in his room.
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart	1985			The chair in the center of the frame is a Thonet No. 18, casting a noir shadow.
Crossroads	1986	Ralph Macchio Joe Seneca Jami Gertz Steve Vai Tim Russ Director: Walter Hill		In a bar scene.
				Detail The visible Thonet chairs are No. 16
				A slightly later shot in the same set.
				Detail Thonet No. 16
The Quick and the Dead	1987	Sam Elliott Tom Conti Kate Capshaw Kenny Morrison Matt Clark Director: Robert Day		A Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner loop.
Best Seller	1987	James Woods Brian Dennehy Victoria Tennant Director: John Flynn		Thonet No. 18 chairs in a restaurant scene.
Another Woman	1988	Philip Bosco Betty Buckley Blythe Danner Sandy Dennis Mia Farrow Gene Hackman and many others Director: Woody Allen		Thonet No. 18 chairs in a bar.
Coming to America	1988	Eddie Murphy Arsenio Hall James Earl Jones John Amos Madge Sinclair Shari Headley Director: John Landis		Thonet No. 18 chairs in McDowell’s restaurant.
Coming to America	1988			Detail
The Presidio	1988	Sean Connery Mark Harmon Meg Ryan Jack Warden Rick Zumwalt Director: Peter Hyams		After Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell (Sean Connery) knocks down a bully (Rick Zumwalt) in Nicky’s Oyser Bar and Restaurant.
				Detail The Thonet chairs in Nicky’s are an unknown model.
				The bully gets up and throws a chair at Lt. Col. Caldwell.
The Tenth Man	1988	Anthony Hopkins Kristin Scott Thomas Derek Jacobi Director: Jack Gold		Jean Louis Chavel (Anthony Hopkins) emerges from the Caveau Du Palais (Palace Cellar Café).
The Tenth Man	1988			Detail The chairs at the outdoor tables are Thonet No. 18, with a squared seat.
The Freshman	1990	Marlon Brando Matthew Broderick Bruno Kirby Penelope Ann Miller Frank Whaley Director: Andrew Bergman		Detail Carmine Sabatini, “Jimmy The Toucan,” (Marlon Brando, parodying his own role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather) operates out of a headquarters furnished with Thonet No. 18 chairs. It’s not a coincidence that a film satirizing filmmaking includes this reference to so many past films.
The Russia House	1990	Sean Connery Michelle Pfeiffer Roy Scheider James Fox John Mahoney Klaus Maria Brandauer Director: Fred Schepisi		Barley Scott Blair meets with a group of Russians. The chairs at the meeting table are Thonet No. 17 (or similar).
The Russia House	1990			Detail from another shot in the same set.
A Tale of Springtime	1990	Anne Teyssèdre Hugues Quester Florence Darel Director: Éric Rohmer		Jeanne (Anne Teyssèdre) in an apartment.
A Tale of Springtime	1990			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
The Committments	1991	Robert Arkins Michael Aherne Angeline Ball Maria Doyle and many others Director: Alan Parker		Thonet No. 14 in the background. More Thonet chairs appear in other scenes.
Miss Marple: Episode 11 “They Do It with Mirrors”	1991	Joan Hickson Jean Simmons Joss Ackland and many others Director: Norman Stone		Thonet No. 14.
Howards End	1992	Anthony Hopkins Vanessa Redgrave Helena Bonham Carter Emma Thompson James Wilby Samuel West Jemma Redgrave Prunella Scales		The wedding party tent is furnished with Thonet No. 18 chairs. The penultimate shot of the party looks through one chair.
Howards End	1992			Detail
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries Season 1 Episode 5 “Death at the Bar”	1993	Patrick Malahide Anna Cropper Director: Michael Winterbottom		Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn (Patrick Malahide) talks to Miss Duffy (Anna Cropper) at a restaurant.
	1993			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Citizen X	1995	Stephen Rea Donald Sutherland Max von Sydow Director: Chris Gerolmo		The chair is a Thonet No. 54, with a plywood seat.
Devil in a Blue Dress	1995	Denzel Washington Tom Sizemore Jennifer Beals Don Cheadle Maury Chaykin Director: Carl Franklin		A dance club scene
Devil in a Blue Dress	1995			Detail Thonet No. 18 chairs at the tables
Shanghai Triad	1995	Gong Li Li Baotian Li Xuejian Sun Chun Wang Xiaoxiao Director: Zhang Yimou		Thonet No. 18. Thonet chairs also appear in other scenes.
Big Night	1996	Minnie Driver Ian Holm Isabella Rossellini Tony Shalhoub Stanley Tucci Director: Campbell Scott Stanley Tucci		Paradise, the restaurant run by Primo and Secondo—and the location of much of the action in Big Night—contains four models of Thonet chairs.
Big Night	1996			Thonet No. 18 and 18 variant with narrow inner back loop a model similar to Thonet No. 98 a model similar to ThonetNo. 124
A Summer’s Tale Conte d'été	1996	Melvil Poupaud Amanda Langlet Gwenaëlle Simon Aurelia Nolin Aimé Lefèvre Alain Guellaff Evelyne Lahana Yves Guérin Franck Cabot Director: Éric Rohmer		Thonet No. 18.
Primal Fear	1996	Richard Gere Laura Linney John Mahoney Alfre Woodard Frances McDormand Edward Norton Director: Gregory Hoblit		Martin Vail (Richard Gere) in John Barleycorn’s Memorial Pub (a real bar where the bar scenes were shot).
Primal Fear	1996			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
L.A. Confidential	1997	Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce James Cromwell David Strathairn Kim Basinger Danny DeVito Director: Curtis Hanson		A restaurant scene behind the opening credits.
L.A. Confidential	1997			Detail Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop.
Tea with Mussolini	1999	Cher Judi Dench Joan Plowright Maggie Smith Lily Tomlin Charlie Lucas Baird Wallace Massimo Ghini Paolo Seganti Michael Williams Director: Franco Zeffirelli		Some of the Scorpioni in a restaurant scene.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				Detail In a kitchen scene, Lady Hester Random (Maggie Smith) appears to contemplate a Thonet No. 375 or similar.
				In a late scene, Luca Innocente (Baird Wallace) leans on a piano.
				Detail Thonet No. 18 chairs upside down on a table, a trope indicating closing time or the beginning of the end of the film.
Black Books	2000 to 2004	Dylan Moran Bill Bailey Tamsin Greig		Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) in a restaurant featured in several episodes. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
America's Sweethearts	2001	Catherine Zeta-Jones Director: Joe Roth		The scene is from “Time Over Time,” a film made by Hal Weidmann (Christopher Walken), reworking the opening of Cabaret. Zeta-Jones is sitting on a No. 16. A No. 18 is in the background.
The Quiet American	2002	Michael Caine Brendan Fraser Do Thi Hai Yen Director: Phillip Noyce		Thonet No. 14 chairs at an outdoor café scene.
Till Human Voices Wake Us	2002	Guy Pearce Helena Bonham Carter Director: Michael Petroni		Thonet No. 14.
Evelyn	2002	Sophie Vavasseur Pierce Brosnan Stephen Rea Alan Bates Julianna Margulies Aidan Quinn Director: Bruce Beresford		Thonet No. 14 on the right, the top of a No. 18 on the left.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	2002	Drew Barrymore George Clooney Julia Roberts Sam Rockwell Director: George Clooney		In a break-room scene, the chairs look like a variant of the Melnikov Roundback café chair designed by Michael Thonet.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	2002			In the background of a bar scene, a Thonet writing desk armchair No. 3.
Speakeasy	2002	David Strathairn Nicky Katt Stacy Edwards Arthur Hiller Lake Bell Christopher McDonald Director: Brendan Murphy		A restaurant set There are Thonet chairs in at least one other set.
Chicago	2002	Renée Zellweger Catherine Zeta-Jones Richard Gere Queen Latifah John C. Reilly Christine Baranski Taye Diggs Lucy Liu Colm Feore Dominic West Director: Rob Marshall






In the Cut	2003	Meg Ryan Mark Ruffalo Jennifer Jason Leigh Kevin Bacon (uncredited) Director: Jane Campion		In a restaurant scene most chairs are the usual Thonet No. 18s. One, barely seen early in this set is a Thonet No. 16.
Monarch of the Glen Season 5	2003	Lloyd Owen Alastair Mackenzie Dawn Steele Director: Robert Knights		Thonet No. 16s and Thonet No. 18s in a restaurant scene.
Coffee and Cigarettes	2003	Roberto Benigni Steven Wright Joie Lee Cinqué Lee Steve Buscemi Iggy Pop Tom Waits Joseph Rigano Vinny Vella Vinny Vella Jr. Renée French E.J. Rodriguez Alex Descas Isaach De Bankolé Cate Blanchett Meg White Jack White Alfred Molina Steve Coogan GZA RZA Bill Murray William Rice Taylor Mead Director: Jim Jarmusch		Coffee and Cigarettes consists of eleven shorts, with some themes connecting the shorts. Thonet chairs appear in several segments. At the end of the first segment, Strange to Meet You, Roberto Benigni exits.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18
				In Those Things’ll Kill Ya, the fourth segment, Joseph Rigano and Vinny Vella talk about the dangers of cigarettes in a coffee shop. The empty Thonet chair between the two actors will be filled by Vella's son later in the scene.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
				In the final segment, Champagne, William Rice and Taylor Mead chat during a coffee break.
				Detail In the background, several chairs are jumbled, some on a table, a trope indicating the end of a plot or scene. The foreground chair and one on the table are Thonet No. 18.
The Recruit	2003	Al Pacino Colin Farrell Bridget Moynahan Gabriel Macht Director: Roger Donaldson		James Douglas Clayton (Colin Farrell) and Layla Moore (Bridget Moynahan) at her kitchen table. The chairs are Thonet No. 16 painted white.
The Recruit	2003			Detail
Ray	2004	Jamie Foxx Kerry Washington Clifton Powell Harry Lennix Terrence Howard Larenz Tate Richard Schiff Regina King Director: Taylor Hackford		After hours.
Ray	2004			Thonet chairs upside down on restaurant tables (or stacked) is a trope of noir movies. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Sideways	2004	Paul Giamatti Thomas Haden Church Virginia Madsen Sandra Oh Director: Alexander Payne		Maya Randall (Virginia Madsen) in a wine café. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Chaos	2005	Jason Statham Ryan Phillippe Wesley Snipes Justine Waddell Keegan Connor Tracy Henry Czerny Director: Tony Giglio		Thonet No. 18 chairs in a café scene.
Chaos	2005			Detail
Good Night, and Good Luck.	2005	David Strathairn Patricia Clarkson George Clooney Jeff Daniels Robert Downey Jr. Frank Langella Director: George Clooney		Thonet No. 16 chiars in a restaurant scene.
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)	2006	Ulrich Mühe Martina Gedeck Sebastian Koch Ulrich Tukur Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck		Thonet No. 23, Writing Desk Armchair (Schreibtischfauteuil), centered in the frame of a bar scene.
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)	2006			Detail Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck) in the foreground, Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) in the background.
The Prestige	2006	Christian Bale Hugh Jackman Michael Caine Scarlett Johansson Rebecca Hall Andy Serkis David Bowie Piper Perabo Director: Christopher Nolan		Sarah Borden (Rebecca Hall) and her nephew watch a magic show at The Strand Theater. This set uses at least five models of Thonet chair: No. 14, No. 16, No. 18, No 18 with narrow back loop, and No. 20.
				Detail Sarah sits in a Thonet No 16. An emptyThonet No 16 is in the middle back, next to the man in the hat. In front of the empty Thonet No. 16 is an empty Thonet No. 18 with narrow back loop and in front of that an empty Thonet No. 18.
				Detail At the far right of the screen shot above is an empty Thonet No. 20. This chair has the older-style circular leg brace. Behind and to the right is a Thonet No. 14.
Last Chance Cafe	2006	Kevin Sorbo Kate Vernon Jessica Amlee Samantha Ferris Director: Jorge Montesi		Madge Beardsley (Samantha Farris) looks for love online in her place, the Last Chance Cafe.
Last Chance Cafe	2006			Detail The chairs in the café are Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop.
Once	2007	Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová Director: John Carney		Guy (Glen Hansard) and Girl (Markéta Irglová) at the dining table in Girl’s apartment.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 14.
				In a late scene, Girl is using a Thonet No. 14 at her new piano.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day	2008	Frances McDormand Amy Adams Ciarán Hinds Lee Pace Director: Bharat Nalluri		Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) walks through a dressing room.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day	2008			Detail Thonet No. 18 and No. 16 chairs.
I’ve Loved You So Long	2008	Kristin Scott Thomas Elsa Zylberstein Pascal Demolon Director: Philippe Claudel		An unnamed man (Pascal Demolon) meets Juliette Fontaine (Kristin Scott Thomas) in a bar with rows of Thonet No. 18 chairs, their curves echoed by the curves at the top of the windows on the right.
Me and Orson Welles	2008	Zac Efron Christian McKay Claire Danes Ben Chaplin Director: Richard Linklater		Sonja Jones (Claire Danes) serving wine in her apartment.
Me and Orson Welles	2008			Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18.
Coco Before Chanel	2009	Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos Director: Anne Fontaine		Thonet No. 18.
Today's Special	2009	Aasif Mandvi Director: David Kaplan		Three models are shown: No. 18, No. 16 and No.14
Georgia O'Keeffe	2009	Joan Allen Jeremy Irons Director: Bob Balaban		A Thonet No. 16 in a hospital room.
Grey’s Anatomy Season 5 Episode 22 “What a Difference a Day Makes”	2009	Ellen Pompeo Sandra Oh Katherine Heigl and many others Director: Rob Corn		Thonet No. 14 (?) in a bar scene.
Julie & Julia	2009	Meryl Streep Amy Adams Stanley Tucci Chris Messina Linda Emond Director: Nora Ephron		A restaurant scene. Julia and Paul Child (Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci) are seated at the far left rear.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 16.
				At Le Cordon Bleu. Julia Child (Meryl Streep) is on the right.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
The American	2010	George Clooney Director: Anton Corbijn		Thonet No. 18s in the Bar Del Monte.
Foyle’s War Season 6 Episode 1 “The Russian House”	2010	Michael Kitchen Honeysuckle Weeks Anthony Howell		Thonet No. 18 chairs in a bar scene.
Foyle’s War Season 6 Episode 1 “The Russian House”	2010	Michael Kitchen Honeysuckle Weeks Anthony Howell		Detail
Foyle’s War Season 6 Episode 3 “The Hide”	2010	Michael Kitchen Honeysuckle Weeks Anthony Howell		In an early scene in Der Alte Palast Dresden Café, one room has many Thonet No. 18s. In the background is a tall stool with a back, possibly a Thonet No. 10/14 or No. 20.
Foyle’s War Season 6 Episode 3 “The Hide”	2010	Michael Kitchen Honeysuckle Weeks Anthony Howell
Shanghai	2010	John Cusack Gong Li Chow Yun-fat Jeffrey Dean Morgan David Morse Ken Watanabe Director: Mikael Håfström		A restaurtant scene with Anna Lan-Ting (Gong Li).
Shanghai	2010			Detail The Thonet chairs are similar to No. 391, but with a shaped flat panel in the back instead of a bent inner loop.
Castle Season 3 Episode 1 “A Deadly Affair”	2010	Nathan Fillion Stana Katic Susan Sullivan Ruben Santiago-Hudson Molly C. Quinn Jon Huertas Director: Rob Bowman		Detective Javier “Javi” Esposito (Jon Huertas) and Detective Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever) in a warehouse with manequins.
				Detail Behind the two detectives is a stack of Thonet chairs. The top chair is a Thonet No. 19. The chair below is probably a Thonet No. 16.
				Another view of the warehouse.
				Detail The chair behind the manequin in the middle of the frame is a Thonet No. 16.
Castle Season 3 Episode 10 “Last Call”		Nathan Fillion Stana Katic Susan Sullivan Ruben Santiago-Hudson Molly C. Quinn Jon Huertas Director: Bryan Spicer		Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and a bar worker enter The Old Haunt.
Castle Season 3 Episode 10 “Last Call”				Detail The chair is a Thonet No. 18.
The Adventures of Tintin	2011	Director: Steven Spielberg		Captain Haddock, Snowy and Tintin, with Thonet No. 18s in the background.
The Adventures of Tintin	2011	Director: Steven Spielberg		Detail
Hugo	2011	Ben Kingsley Sacha Baron Cohen Asa Butterfield Chloë Grace Moretz Ray Winstone Emily Mortimer Christopher Lee Jude Law Director: Martin Scorsese		Thonet No. 18.
Mildred Pierce	2011	Kate Winslet Guy Pearce Evan Rachel Wood Melissa Leo Director: Todd Haynes		Mildred’s Restaurant is furnished with Thonet No. 16 chairs.
Mildred Pierce	2011			Two scenes feature the Thonet No. 16s upside down on tables: This scene is at a turning point in the plot. A later, similar scene comes toward the end of the plot.
Community Season 3 Episode 10 “Regional Holiday Music”	2011	Joel McHale Gillian Jacobs Danny Pudi Yvette Nicole Brow Alison Brie Donald Glover Jim Rash Ken Jeong Chevy Chase Director: Tristram Shapeero		Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) sitting near a Thonet stool based on the No. 18 chair.
Community Season 3 Episode 10 “Regional Holiday Music”	2011			Detail This stool is similar to the Bureausessel (office stool) No. 10 and No. 20 in the 1904 Thonet catalog. A model apparently identical to the one in this set is listed today as the No. 18 Barstool in the Thonet Australia website, which notes that it “has been adapted from the classic No. 18 chair.”
Renoir	2012	Michel Bouquet Christa Theret Vincent Rottiers Thomas Doret Director: Gilles Bourdos		A Thonet No. 14 in the background.
Not Fade Away	2012	James Gandolfini John Magaro Jack Huston Bella Heathcote Director: David Chase		Detail Grace Dietz (Bella Heathcote) packs her car. The chair is a Thonet No. 16.
The Bletchley Circle Season 1 Episode 3 “Cracking a Killer’s Code” (p 3)	2012	Anna Maxwell Martin Rachael Stirling Sophie Rundle Julie Graham Hattie Morahan Director: Andy De Emmony		In an apartment.
	2012			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Much Ado About Nothing	2012	Amy Acker Alexis Denisof Reed Diamond Nathan Fillion Clark Gregg Fran Kranz Sean Maher Jillian Morgese Director: Joss Whedon		Beatrice (Amy Acker) hides under a kitchen counter.
Much Ado About Nothing	2012			The chairs in the background are similar to the Melnikov Café Chair, with four arc leg braces.
Downton Abbey Season 4 Episode 8	2013	Michelle Dockery Gary Carr Director: Ed Hall		Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery) and Jack Ross (Gary Carr) in Jack’s practice studio. The chairs are Thonet No. 18, with optional back braces and the modern curved leg brace.
Foyle’s War Season 7 Episode 3 “Sunflower”	2013	Michael Kitchen Honeysuckle Weeks		Looking through a Thonet No. 14, with Foyle’s hat on the seat, at another Thonet No. 14, an echo of the over-the-shoulder shot from Foyle to Thomas Nelson. Other episodes in Season 7 also show Thonet chairs.
The Best Offer	2013	Geoffrey Rush Jim Sturgess Sylvia Hoeks Donald Sutherland Director: Giuseppe Tornatore		The Best Offer—a film about an art collector—includes Thonet No. 18s in some scenes.
The Best Offer	2013			A Thonet No. 18 in a painting (which was apparently made for the film).
Inside Llewyn Davis	2013	Oscar Isaac Carey Mulligan John Goodman Justin Timberlake Adam Driver Director: Joel Coen Ethan Coen		Thonet chairs upside down on restaurant tables and noir shadows of Thonet chairs are tropes of noir movies.
				Detail Thonet No 18s on restaurant tables.
				Detail In the far background, the chairs cast noir shadows.
American Hustle	2013	Christian Bale Bradley Cooper Amy Adams Jeremy Renner Jennifer Lawrence Director: David O. Russell		Thonet No.14 appears in an outdoor cafe scene.
Jimi: All Is by My Side	2013	André Benjamin Imogen Poots Hayley Atwell Burn Gorman Director: John Ridley		Thonet No. 18 in a dressing room.
Saving Mr. Banks	2013	Emma Thompson Tom Hanks Paul Giamatti Jason Schwartzman Bradley Whitford Colin Farrell Director: John Lee Hancock		Unknown model with looped leg braces.
Phantom	2013	Ed Harris David Duchovny William Fichtner Lance Henriksen Johnathon Schaech Julian Adams Director: Todd Robinson		Thonet chair in background.
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself	2013	George Plimpton Director: Tom Bean Luke Poling		In a Paris café, Thonet No. 18.
Days and Nights	2013	Jean Reno Katie Holmes William Hurt and many more and Director: Christian Camargo		Thonet No. 18 with the more modern leg brace.
Blood Ties	2013	Clive Owen Billy Crudup Marion Cotillard Mila Kunis Zoe Saldana Matthias Schoenaerts James Caan Director: Guilleaume Canet		Thonet chairs in an outdoor snack shop. The chairs appear to be painted white.
Good People	2013	James Franco Kate Hudson Omar Sy Tom Wilkinson Sam Spruell Director: Henrik Ruben Genz		Thonet No. 14, painted.
The Last of Robin Hood	2013	Kevin Kline Dakota Fanning Susan Sarandon Matthew Kane Max Casella Director: Richard Glatzer Wash West		Florence Aadland (Susan Sarandon) sits beside a makeup table as her daughter Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning) leaves, seen in the mirror.
The Last of Robin Hood	2013			Detail A white-painted Thonet No. 18 is seen both at the makeup table and in the mirror.
Broadchurch Season 1 Episode 3	2013	David Tennant Olivia Colman Vicky McClure Director: Euros Lyn		Thonet No. 18s in the pub of The Traders Hotel, with journalist Karen White (Vicky McClure).
Downton Abbey Season 5 Episode 8	2014	Rob James-Collier Director: Michael Engler		Thomas Barrow (Rob James-Collier) in The Underground London Club The Velvet Violin. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Downton Abbey Season 5 Episode 8	2014	Rob James-Collier Director: Michael Engler		Detail
Testament of Youth	2014	Alicia Vikander Kit Harington Taron Egerton Colin Morgan Emily Watson Hayley Atwell Dominic West Miranda Richardson Director: James Kent		Thonet No. 18 chairs in a hospital scene.
Testament of Youth	2014			Detail
An Honest Liar	2014	James Randi Alice Cooper Bill Nye Adam Savage Penn & Teller Michael Shermer Director: Justin Weinstein Tyler Measom		This documentary shows Thonet chairs in several scenes, including this one, with Harry Houdini ringing a bell with his toes. Other scenes show stage escapes from being tied in a Thonet chair.
Houdini	2014	Adrien Brody Kristen Connolly Director: Uli Edel
To Be Takei	2014	George Takei Director: Jennifer M. Kroot		This is a scene from Takei’s musical Allegiance, which shown in the documentary. The chair is a Thonet No. 18 with narrow inner back loop.
Klondike	2014	Richard Madden Abbie Cornish Marton Csokas Ian Hart Greg Lawson Conor Leslie Tim Blake Nelson Augustus Prew Johnny Simmons Tim Roth Sam Shepard Director: Simon Cellan Jones		Thonet chairs appear in other scenes as well.
The Crimson Field Episode 2	2014	Rupert Graves Oona Chaplin Hermione Norris Suranne Jones Kevin Doyle and many others Director: David Evans		The field hospital set in The Crimson Field includes several Thonet Chair models. This screenshot highlights a Thonet No. 54.
Castles in the Sky	2014	Eddie Izzard Laura Fraser Alex Jennings Director: Gillies MacKinnon		Robert Watson-Watt (Eddie Izzard) makes notes next to a Thonet No. 98 chair with four arc leg braces. The table is also at least in the Thonet style.
Castles in the Sky	2014			Detail
Bosch Season 1 Episode 6 “Donkey’s Years”	2014	Titus Welliver Jamie Hector Amy Aquino Annie Wersching Director: Jim McKay		Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) in a restaurant scene.
Bosch Season 1 Episode 6 “Donkey’s Years”	2014			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Grandma	2015	Lily Tomlin Julia Garner Marcia Gay Harden Judy Greer Laverne Cox Sam Elliott Director: Paul Weitz		A Thonet No. 391 in the Bonobo Café.
Danny Collins	2015	Al Pacino Annette Bening Jennifer Garner Bobby Cannavale Christopher Plummer Director: Dan Fogelman		A Thonet No. 18 chair.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Season 3 Episode 2 “Murder & the Maiden”	2015	Essie Davis Nathan Page Hugo Johnstone-Burt Ashleigh Cummings Director: Tony Tilse		Thonet chairs also appear in other episodes.
An Inspector Calls	2015	David Thewlis Sophie Rundle Chloe Pirrie Finn Cole Miranda Richardson Ken Stott Kyle Soller Director: Aisling Walsh		Alice Grey (Sophie Rundle) appeals for help to Sybil Birling’s women’s aid society board members. The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
An Inspector Calls	2015
Bartender	2016	Don Cheadle Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Set Decorator: Marisa Collins		One of nine short black-and-white virtual-reality films set in the world of “L.A. Noir,” Bartender takes place in a dimly lit bar. Presented by The New York Times
				Detail In the background, Thonet No. 18 chairs, some upside down on top of tables.
				Don Cheadle in a publicity still with Thonet No. 18 chairs. Noir tropes used in this still include Thonet chairs casting noir shadows and chairs upside down on tables,
The Crown	2016	Claire Foy Matt Smith Vanessa Kirby Eileen Atkins John Lithgow and many others		Thonet No. 18s in a “gentleman's club.”
The Crown	2016			Another shot in the same set shows a Thonet No. 14 from the back.
Café Society	2016	Jeannie Berlin Steve Carell Jesse Eisenberg Blake Lively Parker Posey Kristen Stewart Corey Stoll Ken Stott Director: Woody Allen		Thonet No. 18s and 45s.
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You	2016	Norman Lear George Clooney Bill Moyers Director: Heidi Ewing Rachel Grady		This is a movie set shown in the documentary. Lear is sitting in a No. 18, the other three chairs are No. 16s.
La La Land	2016	Ryan Gosling Emma Stone John Legend Rosemarie DeWitt Director: Damien Chazelle		Thonet No. 18s in the jazz club scenes, echoing many movies with jazz club scenes, including musicals Cabaret and The Band Wagon. This is not surprising, as La La Land is full of homage to earlier musicals and other classic movies.
La La Land	2016			Detail
The Magnificent Seven	2016	Denzel Washington Chris Pratt Ethan Hawke Vincent D'Onofrio and others Director: Antoine Fuqua		Detail A Thonet No. 18 in a very brief cameo in the background of one shot.
The Exception	2016	Lily James Jai Courtney Janet McTeer Christopher Plummer Director: David Leveaux		Captain Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney) in the bedroom of Mieke de Jong (Lily James). The chair is a Thonet No. 45½. His pistol is on the seat.
Call the Midwife Season 6 Episode 8	2017	Created by Heidi Thomas		Thonet No. 18s in a restaurant scene with, left to right, dentist Christopher Dockerill (Jack Hawkins), his daughter Alexandra Dockerill (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland), and nurse Beatrix “Trixie” Franklin (Helen George).
The Sense of an Ending	2017	Jim Broadbent Charlotte Rampling Harriet Walter Emily Mortimer Michelle Dockery Director: Ritesh Batra		At a boys’ assembly, in the foreground left to right: Adrian Finn Jr. (Andrew Buckley), Tony Webster (Billy Howle) and Joseph Dobson’s empty chair, a Thonet No. 18.
The Lost City of Z	2017	Charlie Hunnam Robert Pattinson Sienna Miller Tom Holland Director: James Gray		Detail Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) sends a telegram in an office (a consulate?) next to a Thonet No. 18 with optional back braces.
Frankie Drake Mysteries: Season 1 Episode 5 “Out of Focus”	2017	Lauren Lee Smith Chantel Riley Rebecca Liddiard Sharron Matthews Director: Sudz Sutherland		“Out of Focus” concerns a murder on a silent movie set, ostensibly directed by Mack Sennett. Thonet No. 18 chairs are featured on the movie set, and seen in both black and white silent clips from the movie and in several scenes on the set. Above: filming a stunt where Frankie Drake (Lauren Lee Smith) gets hit with a stool.
Frankie Drake Mysteries: Season 1 Episode 5 “Out of Focus”	2017			A scene filmed through the legs of a Thonet chair.
The Cotton Club: Encore	2017	Richard Gere Gregory Hines Diane Lane Lonette McKee Bob Hoskins James Remar Nicolas Cag Allen Garfield Fred Gwynne Director: Francis Ford Coppola		The Cotton Club, 1984, has many scenes with Thonet chairs of several models. These screenshots are from the 2017 Director’s Cut called The Cotton Club: Encore. Dutch angle shot of The Cotton Club, showing tables with Thonet No. 18 chairs.
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				Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins) at a table in The Cotton Club.
				Thonet No. 391 chairs at a table. Dutch Schultz (James Remar) center back.
				Detail Thonet No. 18-style barstools.
Frankie Drake Mysteries: Season 2 Episode 9 “Dealer’s Choice”	2018	Lauren Lee Smith Chantel Riley Rebecca Liddiard Sharron Matthews Director: Ruba Nadda		In a bar scene, a Thonet No. 16.
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Madam Secretary Season 5 Episode 4 “Requiem”	2018	Téa Leoni Tim Daly Patina Miller Geoffrey Arend and many others Director: Eric Stoltz		Mickey Kensington (Quentin Earl Darrington) and Jay Whitman (Sebastian Arcelus) have lunch. Thonet No. 18s in the background.
Ladies in Black	2018	Angourie Rice Rachael Taylor Julia Ormond Director: Bruce Beresford		Thonet No. 14 chairs in a dining-room scene.
Ladies in Black	2018			Detail
Press Season 1 Episode 3 “Don’t Take My Heart, Don’t Break My Heart”	2018	Charlotte Riley Ben Chaplin Priyanga Burford Brendan Cowell Director: Tom Vaughan		Peter Langly (Brendan Cowell) and Amina Chaudury (Priyanga Burford) walk past an outdoor café.
	2018			Detail Thonet No. 18 chairs
Vienna Blood Episode 1 “The Last Seance”	2019	Matthew Beard Jürgen Maurer Director: Robert Dornhelm		Vienna Blood, a PBS TV series, is set in Vienna in 1900, so it’s not surprising to see Thonet chairs on set in many episodes. Here’s just one example. Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard) in a police station interview room. This same room is shown in several other episodes.
Vienna Blood Episode 1 “The Last Seance”	2019	Matthew Beard Jürgen Maurer Director: Robert Dornhelm		Detail Thonet No. 98 (with a solid-wood seat).
Toy Story 4	2019	Tom Hanks Tim Allen Keanu Reeves Joan Cusack and many others Director: Josh Cooley		In Second Chance Antiques: Thonet No. 18.
Toy Story 4	2019			Detail
World on Fire Season 1 Episode 1	2019	Jonah Hauer-King Helen Hunt Director: Adam Smith		In a café, Harry Chase (Jonah Hauer-King), Nancy Campbell (Helen Hunt) and Thonet No. 18 chairs. A Thonet kliederstock is in the background.
World on Fire Season 1 Episode 1	2019	Jonah Hauer-King Helen Hunt Director: Adam Smith		Detail
A Call to Spy	2019	Sarah Megan Thomas Stana Katic Radhika Apte Director: Sarah Megan Thomas		A café scene with Thonet No. 16 chairs at some tables.
A Call to Spy	2019			Detail
The Highwaymen	2019	Kevin Costner Woody Harrelson Kathy Bates John Carroll Lynch Kim Dickens Thomas Mann William Sadler Director: John Lee Hancock		Maney Gault (Woody Harrelson) and Frank Hamer (Kevin Costner) at a café stop in Oklahoma, with Thonet No. 18 chairs at the tables.
The Highwaymen	2019			Detail Note how Hamer’s coffee cup is framed by the chair in this shot.
Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For	2019	Lacey Chabert Brennan Elliott John Kapelos Director: Don McCutcheon		Detective Logan (Brennan Elliott) and Chief Chauncey Logan (John Kapelos) in the hotel where the annual crossword championship is being held.
Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For	2019			Detail The table at the back right has Thonet No. 18 chairs, casting noir shadows.
Agatha and the Midnight Murders	2020	Helen Baxendale Blake Harrison Jacqueline Boatswain Gina Bramhill Daniel Caltagirone Thomas Chaanhing Scott Chambers Director: Joe Stephenson		A Thonet No. 18 in the basement where the characters took refuge during an air raid.
Agatha and the Midnight Murders	2020			Detail Note circular leg brace and cane seat.
Virgin River Several Episodes	2020	Alexandra Breckenridge Colin Lawrence Martin Henderson And many others Director: Andy Mikita		John “Preacher” Middleton (Colin Lawrence), the chef at Jack’s Bar. Chairs upside down on a table represent a film noir trope indicating after hours. S2 E1 “New Beginnings”
				Melinda “Mel” Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge) walks into Jack’s Bar after closing time. S2 E10: "Blown Away"
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 23 Writing Desk Armchairs. Upside down Thonet chairs are shown in many episodes of Virgin River.
Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 1 Episode 3 “Deeds Not Words”	2020	Kate Phillips Stuart Martin Ansu Kabia Director: Declan O’Dwyer		Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips) waits to observe a women’s suffrage group. The chairs are Thonet No. 14 and No. 18.
Coda	2020	Patrick Stewart Katie Holmes Giancarlo Esposito Claude Lalonde		Helen Morrison (Katie Holmes) and Sir Henry Cole (Patrick Stewart) in Arthur’s Restaurant.
				Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18. The man at far right is sitting on a Thonet bar stool.
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Frankie Drake Mysteries: Season 4 Episode 7 “Life is a Cabaret”	2021	Lauren Lee Smith Chantel Riley Rebecca Liddiard Sharron Matthews Thom Allison Director: Bosede Williams		Roger LeBlanc (Thom Allison) strides into a room.
	2021			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 18.
Operation Mincemeat	2021	Colin Firth Matthew Macfadyen Kelly Macdonald Penelope Wilton Johnny Flynn Jason Isaacs Director: John Madden		An outdoor café scene in Spain.
Operation Mincemeat	2021			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 54, with the more modern loop-shaped leg brace.
A Jazzman's Blues	2022	Joshua Boone Amirah Vann Solea Pfeiffer Austin Scott Ryan Eggold E. Roger Mitchell Director: Tyler Perry		Bayou (Joshua Boone) enters his dressing room to find Buster (E. Roger Mitchell) waiting.
A Jazzman's Blues	2022			Detail The chairs are Thonet No. 45½.
Slow Horses: Season 4 Episode 2 “A Stranger Comes to Town”	2024	Gary Oldman Jack Lowden Kristin Scott Thomas Sophie Okonedo Jonathan Pryce Hugo Weaving Director: Adam Randall		River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) enters Le Blanc Russe, a café in France.
Slow Horses: Season 4 Episode 2 “A Stranger Comes to Town”	2024			The chairs are Thonet No. 54.
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