At the 1959 Golden Globes, Dallinger caught Cary Grant and Janet Leigh dancing nose to nose. Surprisingly, the two never appeared in a film together, though Grant had just made Operation Petticoat with Leigh's husband, Tony Curtis.
Kirk Douglas and his son Michael attended a March 1960 movie premiere when Michael was 16 years old.
After a special screening of their forthcoming 1960 movie G.I. Blues, co-stars Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse attended a studio-hosted buffet dinner to promote the film to exhibitors. Near the height of his fame, Presley looked bored by the exercise. Prowse, appearing in only her second major motion picture, worked hard to perk up his mood.
In 1970, 26-year-old Michael, a regular on the Hollywood circuit, attended the November premiere of Scrooge with Brenda Vaccaro. The pair were at the start of a six-year relationship that began on the then-in-production film Summertree.
A smiling Faye Dunaway, then 29, spoke with Jack Nicholson, then 33, at a charity screening, hosted by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, of her 1970 movie Puzzle of a Downfall Child.
In 1950, the then-6-year-old learned how to whittle from father Kirk.
On the set of 1945's Adventure, Dallinger photographed Clark Gable (left), perhaps his favorite subject, arm-wrestling castmate Tom Tully as director Victor Fleming looked on as a judge. Dallinger was the rare photographer allowed into Gable's private home in Encino.
Dallinger wanted to include this rare unpublished 1950 photograph of 22-year-old Shirley Temple Black (who died Feb. 10 at age 85) dancing with her future husband, 31-year-old Charles Black, in a never-completed second book. The former child star and future U.S. ambassador had met the San Francisco businessman in Hawaii in January 1950, a few weeks after the end of her first marriage (to John Agar, whom she had married in 1945 at age 17). Black proposed 12 days later, and the two married in December 1950.
After his 1971 retirement, Dallinger published a collection of his photos (Unforgettable Hollywood, 1982). A planned second volume would have included this 1957 snapshot of 23-year-old Shirley MacLaine at the annual SHARE costume party fundraiser for what would become Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Hospital in 1961.
At the 1965 Globes, Jack Warner planted a kiss on a surprised Julie Andrews after she won best actress for Mary Poppins; this was only a year after he surprised Hollywood by not offering her the Eliza Doolittle role in My Fair Lady.
Leslie Uggams laughed with Sidney Poitier after making her L.A.-area singing debut with a 1964 performance at the famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Poitier was less than a year removed from becoming the first black man to win a best actor Oscar, for his performance in Lilies of the Field.