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From our "Super-Duper Obscure Celebrities" file, today we have old-skool PERRY MASON and DELLA STREET reading what I presume is A HUGE LAW BOOK. In this incarnation (CBS daily radio show) the two characters are represented by John Larkin and Joan Alexander. The old picture's kind of hard to make out but look how BIG his book is. We always knew Perry was hot.

Photo from the New York Public Library via The Perry Mason TV Show Book.

P.S. Apologies to those of you got a sneak preview of this photo last night--apparently there's a keyboard shortcut for "publish." Who knew?

where have all the good men gone?

The only things that makes a hot man hotter is a good book and a sidelong glance. Here is a young MARLON BRANDO reading a designer we don't recognize (do YOU know?) and looking cool with a capital OOH.

a man and his book

Behind every great man is a great book. Here, we see Alfred Hitchcock reading DAPHNE DU MAURIER's famous novel REBECCA to his assistant Joan Harrison, prior to making the bok into a really kick-ass film. We would like to report that those curtains will NOT be making a fashion comeback.

(image credit: LIFE)

Marilyn Monroe reading ULYSSES

File this under CLASSIC GLAM: Marilyn Monroe reading ULYSSES by James Joyce.