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Cast of Wisconsin Players Rehearsing for "Bite the Dust"

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Rehearsing for the Wisconsin Players production of "Bite the Dust" are left to right: Irving Kreutz as Six-Killer Onehorse; Patricia McKeene as Polly Pears...
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Red Skelton on International Harvester Stage

Date: 1959
Description: Red Skelton entertains an audience while onstage at the convention of American Trucking Associations. The International Harvester logo is displayed on the ...
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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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Men Into Space Scene

Date: 08 26 1959
Description: William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley on the television show Men Into Space, talks into a microphone. Two other men are next to him, one standing...
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Men Into Space Characters in Uniform

Date: 08 06 1959
Description: Ken Lynch, as General Thomas, Harry Townes, as Dr. William Thyssen, and William Lundigan as Colonel Ed McCauley, are seen on the television show Men Int...
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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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"Cisco Kid" Still

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Description: Outdoor Set of the TV show "Cisco Kid." The Cisco Kid has his hand on the shoulder of a man who is is holding onto a woman. A man holding a microphone boom...
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Elaine May and Mike Nichols

Date: 1965
Description: Elaine May and Mike Nichols sitting on stools and performing during an appearance on the Jack Paar Program on NBC.
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Scene from "Blockade"

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Description: Cast and crew are filming a scene from the 1938 movie "Blockade." A microphone is hanging over the cast in the background. In the left-foreground is the cr...
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Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, and Glynis Johns

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Description: Actors Googie Withers, Griffith Jones and Glynis Johns filming a scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Withers is sitting in a chair with a newspaper, Jones ...
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Griffith Jones

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Description: Actor Griffith Jones on the underwater cave set, preparing to film a scene from the 1948 movie "Miranda." The set contains a platform where some of the fil...
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Jackie Robinson and Unidentified Actor

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Description: Jackie Robinson and an unknown man are standing on a baseball field during the making of the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." Behind them are men wor...
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Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson

Date: 1950
Description: Actors Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson pausing while filming a scene from the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." They are on a sound stage. In the foregro...
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James Whale, Louis Hayward, and Joan Bennett

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Description: Director James Whale and actors Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett on a garden set of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." They are on a sound stage, with...
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Laurence Olivier on a Camera Crane

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Description: Director and actor Laurence Olivier sitting on a camera crane on the set of the 1949 film "Hamlet." On the right is a man working a boom microphone attache...
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Robert Cummings and Claudette Colbert

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Description: Actors Robert Cummings and Claudette Colbert filming a scene from the 1948 film "Sleep, My Love." They are surrounded by assorted film making equipment, in...
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Dick Powell and Linda Darnell

Date: 1944
Description: Elevated view of Dick Powell and Linda Darnell on the set of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." In silhouette in the foreground are the film crew and as...
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René Clair, Linda Darnell, and Dick Powell

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Description: Director René Clair talking with actors Linda Darnell and Dick Powell on the set of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." A microphone is over their heads....
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Cartoon for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: Al Hirschfeld's drawing shows Charlie Chaplin's Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, behind a cluster of microphones, smiling broadly.
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Jim Ameche

Date: 07 03 1938
Description: Waist-up portrait of radio actor Jim Ameche, who is holding a sheet of paper and standing behind an NBC microphone.

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