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MGM Studio Booth

Date: 08 1928
Description: A man operates a Mitchell camera from inside an MGM sound booth as Raquel Torres and Nils Asther perform seated in front of lights and a microphone. Direct...
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Alfred Hitchcock and Walter Wanger

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock stands next to Gertrude Hoffman who is smiling and holding a birthday cake. Walter Wanger stands to the right of the woman, and Herbert Ma...
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"Our Daily Bread" Location Still

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Description: Outdoor group portrait taken on location for the film "Our Daily Bread." Barbara Pepper and Karen Morley are seated along with two men in director's chairs...
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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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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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Prison Scene from "The Man in the Iron Mask"

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Description: Director James Whale filming a scene from the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." An unidentified actor, possibly Louis Hayward, is wearing the iron mask...
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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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On the set of "The Only Thing"

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Description: Director Jack Conway and screenwriter Elinor Glyn talk to Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel on the set of the 1925 film "The Only Thing". The four stand un...
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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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