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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Free The Hollywood Ten

Date: 10 28 1947
Description: Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the "Hollywood Ten," together with members of their families at a demonstration before their im...
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Frederic March on Fraternity House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class.
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Ed Wynn and George White

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Description: Ed Wynn, in makeup for "Manhattan Mary," plays checkers with George White.
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Fred Coe

Date: 1956
Description: Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board.
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Howard Hughes in Airplane Cockpit

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Description: Howard Hughes - aviation-obsessed motion picture producer, millionaire playboy, and aircraft business leader - seated in the cockpit of his airplane after ...
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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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Herbert Biberman

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Description: Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist...
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Four of the Hollywood Ten

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Description: Four members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are: Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, and Dalton Tr...
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Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber

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Description: Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire.
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Publicity Still of Richard Barthelmess Answering Fan Mail

Date: 04 20 1922
Description: Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1922
Description: Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s...
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Portrait of Harry Houdini

Date: 1922
Description: Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini.
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Portrait of Harry Houdini

Date: 1919
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini.
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Mr. & Mrs. Houdini

Date: 1926
Description: Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis.
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Houdini in Chains in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
Description: Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Franklin J. Schnaffner

Date: 1978
Description: Franklin J. Schnaffner, director of "The Boys from Brazil" (Fox, 1978). Schnaffner is looking through the viewfinder of a Panaflex camera.
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Franklin J. Schnaffner

Date: 1978
Description: Franklin J. Schnaffner, director of "The Boys from Brazil" (Fox, 1978) in a quarter-length portrait taken during production. He wears a dark cap.
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John Gilbert with Pipe

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of actor John Gilbert with a pipe in his mouth.

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