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Filming "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: The camera moves in on a retail pharmacy scene in "Design for Life", a film produced by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American F...
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Scene from "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: Friendly counsel on pharmaceutical salesmanship is offered a prospective pharmacy student Dale Saunders (David Bain) by Sales Representative Randall (Art G...
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Aching Youth Poster

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Description: Photograph of a poster for the 1928 film Aching Youth starring Charley Chase. Chase kneels next to a seated woman and holds a microphone to her ches...
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Chris Farley

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Description: Chris Farley's character in the movie Black Sheep looks into a car trunk. He is wearing a suit with a baseball cap, and his suit and cap are covered...
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Chris Farley in Black Sheep

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Description: Chris Farley's character in the movie Black Sheep enthusiastically offers a political button to a man and a woman. They are standing in a parking lo...
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A Scene from the Film "The Cool World"

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Description: An African American man making a speech in a scene from the film "The Cool World." He is standing slightly above a group of people. Someone is holding up a...
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"Husbands for Rent"

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Description: Herbert Willis (Owen Moore), Molly Devoe (Helene Costello), and Sir Reginald Knight (Claude Gillingwater) standing next to each other. Willis has a blank s...
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"Diamond Handcuffs" Production Still

Date: 1928
Description: Director John McCarthy watching as Henry Sharp films Eleanor Boardman and Lawrence Gray in a scene from the 1928 film "Diamond Handcuffs."
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Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in The Bell Boy

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Description: Scene still from the 1918 silent film The Bell Boy. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is standing at the center of a group, wearing a plaid suit. He is holdin...
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Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, and Roy Glenn

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Description: Elevated view of actors Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, and Roy Glenn filming a scene from the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." The trio are at a bus stop...
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Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson

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Description: Actors Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson outdoors filming a scene from "The Jackie Robinson Story." Dee is getting makeup applied or touched up, probably by mak...
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Louis Hayward and James Whale

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Description: Actor Louis Hayward and director James Whale during the production of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." Both men are sitting at a table on set, wit...
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James Whale

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Description: Director James Whale and the film crew during the making of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." The men are standing around a movie camera, and one o...
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De Mille on the set of "Fool's Paradise"

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Description: Director Cecil B. DeMille confers with actors John Davidson and Julia Faye on the set of the 1922 film "Fool's Paradise". Davidson is dressed in a uniform ...
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Percy Marmont and Herbert Brenon

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Description: Film director Herbert Brenon holds a "LICENCED PEDDLER" pin to Percy Marmont's lapel. Marmont is dressed as a crippled peddler for the 1925 film "The Stree...
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George Seitz and Bruce Cabot on the set of "The Last of the Mohicans"

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Description: Bruce Cabot, dressed as Magua, talks with director George B. Seitz on the set of the 1936 film "The Last of the Mohicans". The men stand n front of a larg...
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"Zenobia" publicity photograph

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Description: Oliver Hardy holds the hand of Alice Koerner as they stand next to a two person bicycle for a publicity photograph for the 1939 film "Zenobia." They are s...
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Norma Talmadge in "The Lady"

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Description: Norma Talmadge and Marc McDermott appear in a scene from the 1925 film "The Lady." Talmadge, as Polly Pearl, sits at a table with her elbow on the table a...
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A scene from "The Sign on the Door"

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Description: Norma Talmadge, as Ann Hunniwell, sits across a table from Lew Cody, as Frank Devereaux, in a scene from the 1921 film "The Sign on the Door". The two are...
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Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan in "Bobbed Hair"

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Description: David Lacy (Kenneth Harlan) holds the hands of Connemara Moore (Marie Prevost) and looks longingly at her in a scene from the 1925 film "Bobbed Hair". She...

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