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| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of future actor Fred MacMurray at age 3, posed with his mother Maleta Martin MacMurray. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | During a visit to Japan, Danny Kaye, then one of the best known comedians and actors, prompted a typical response from Martha Brown, the wife of Cecil Brow... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ... |
| Date: | 05 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Composite of four head and shoulders portraits of the three former wives and the fiancée of actor John Gilbert: Olivia Burwell (top left), Leatrice Joy (to... |
| Date: | 05 30 1932 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrais of actor John Gilbert and his fiancée Virginia Bruce. Both are smiling — he is looking at her and she is looking at the camer... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert sits next to Marlene Dietrich at a party thrown by Clifton Webb. They are both in formal dress. There are empty dinner plates and a bask... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A menacing Sessu Hayakawa looms over a terrified Fannie Ward in a scene from the silent film "The Cheat" (Paramount 1915). In the upper right hand corner, ... |
| Date: | 04 20 2012 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the cast, crew and extended family of David Marcou for the Pulitzer-nominated play "Remembering Davy Crockett," at the end of the world d... |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Buster Keaton and his wife Natalie Talmadge sitting together. He is sitting on the left and is holding her arm. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Elaine May and Mike Nichols sitting on stools and performing during an appearance on the Jack Paar Program on NBC. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Actors are on stage performing the musical "Song of Norway" at Mt. Horeb's first Song of Norway Festival. The woman in the center is wearing a red and gold... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Lili Palmer is resting her head on John Garfield's shoulder in a scene from the 1947 film "Body and Soul." A piece of equipment, possibly a microphone, is ... |
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| Description: | Sarah Cunningham is standing behind Morris Carnovsky, who is sitting, in a scene from the play "The World of Sholom Aleichem." She is smiling down on him w... |
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| Description: | Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Kermit Bloomgarden and his wife Virginia Kaye are standing near a table at the Thespian Theatre Club Award dinner. Harris and ... |
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| Description: | Dancers taking a curtain call on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." The orchestra is in a pit in front of the stage, and two men and two women ar... |
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| Description: | Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand sitting at a table and talking in a scene from the television production of "Marty." Both are dressed nicely. The production... |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the 1959 film "Imitation of Life" starring Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, and Juanita Moore. The image on the card shows Lora Meredith (Lana Turn... |
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| Description: | Halfsheet poster for the 1959 film "Pillow Talk" starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson. The poster shows Day and Hudson laying next to each other with their ... |
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