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Scene Still from The Jazz Singer

Date: 1927
Description: A still from the film The Jazz Singer showing Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson, and Warner Oland (Warner 1927).
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"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"

Date: 1950
Description: Scene still from "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
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Gertrude Lawrence and Charles Rugges in "The Battle of Paris"

Date: 1929
Description: Georgie (played by Gertrude Lawrence), clutching sheet music, leans in close to Zisi who holds an accordion (Charles Ruggles) in a scene from the Paramount...
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Rudy Vallee with baton

Date: 1929
Description: Rudy Vallee conducts musicians as a woman sings in "Glorifying the American Girl," a Paramount musical from 1929.
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Cast of "Congress Dances" Film

Date: 1931
Description: View from above of actors and crew of the film "Congress Dances" standing around between takes.
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Tea Time in "Congress Dances"

Date: 1931
Description: A woman and man in elaborate costumes have tea in the film "Congress Dances".
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Performers in "The Singing Kid"

Date: 1936
Description: Seven chorus girls from "The Singing Kid" surround Al Jolson.
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Barbary Coast Cast, production still

Date: 1935
Description: The cast of Barbary Coast pose on the set. In the back from left to right are: Samuel Goldwyn and Howard Hawks. In front from left to right are Miri...
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Colleen Moore and Joseph de Grasse

Date: 1925
Description: Colleen Moore as Selina Peake and Joseph de Grasse as her father in the screen version of Edna Ferber's film "So Big".
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Colleen Moore in "So Big"

Date: 1925
Description: A scene from the film "So Big" in which Jean Hersholt (left), Colleen Moore sitting on couch with a child laying his head in her lap, and Charlotte Merriam...
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Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas

Date: 1941
Description: Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas in a publicity still for That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists, 1941).
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Burgess Meredith, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas

Date: 1941
Description: Burgess Meredith, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas in a publicity still for That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists, 1941).
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Scene Still from Their First Mistake

Date: 1932
Description: Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, and Stan Laurel in Their First Mistake (MGM 1932).
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Publicity Still from The Wicked Lady

Date: 1945
Description: Margaret Lockwood with pistol drawn and sitting on a horse. She stars as Barbara Worth in the 1945 Gainesborough film The Wicked Lady. The costume d...
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Charles Laughton and Binnie Barnes in The Private Life of Henry VIII

Date: 1933
Description: Scene still of Charles Laughton, as King Henry VIII, and Binnie Barnes (Katherine Howard) in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)...
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Federico Fellini and Anna Magnani in L'Amore: Due Storie D'Amore (Ways of Love)

Date: 1948
Description: Scene still of Federico Fellini as the stranger and Anna Magnani as Nanni, in the second segment (Il Miracolo) of Roberto Rossellini's L'Amore: Due Stor...
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Silvana Mangano in Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Date: 1949
Description: Scene still of Silvana Mangano, playing Silvana Melega, standing in a flooded rice paddy with two horses in Giuseppe De Santis's Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice...
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Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter

Date: 1945
Description: Publicity still of Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson and Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey in Brief Encounter (1945), directed by David Lean from a play ...
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Michele Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, and Line Noro in La Symphonie Pastorale

Date: 1946
Description: Michele Morgan, as the blind orphan Gertrude, Pierre Blanchar as the pastor, and Line Noro as Amélie in Jean Delannoy's La Symphonie Pastorale (1946...
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George Poujouly and Nathalie Pascaud in Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games)

Date: 1952
Description: Scene still of George Poujouly as Michel and Brigitte Fossey as Paulette in René Clément's Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games, 1952).

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