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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Haystacks and Steeples". |
| Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Crater Players on stage rehearsing for the play, "The Drunkard". Left to right are: organizer Professor Ronald E. Mitchell, Olaf Ussing, Josephine Bomgardn... |
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| Description: | Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Hungary and raised as Erich Weiss in Appleton, Wisconsin, preparing to do one of his famous escapes, this time from a sub... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) holds Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) by the wrist as they stand calf-deep in the surf on the island of Fiji in a scene s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "This might be a demonstration of a clubby way to sharpen a carving knife, or it might be nothing but a snapshot of Helene Chadwick and R... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Robert Walker and Viola Dana pose on a rocky beach in a publicity still for "Aladdin's Other Lamp." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Robert Walker and Viola Dana pose holding hands on a rocky beach in a publicity still for "Aladdin's Other Lamp." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Kathryn, Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson), sits on the edge of a rustic well in a scene still for the 1917 silent film "Barbary S... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Joel McCrea is seen walking on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." His hair and shirt are wet but he is smiling. Two men walk beside and behind hi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Publicity photo of Joel McCrea and Laraine Day on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." The two, along with five other people, are in the water wait... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Joel McCrea, who is soaking wet, kneels on the edge of the pool on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is smiling. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Herbert Marshall stands outside a stage door and dries off during the filming of the movie "Foreign Correspondent." He is wearing a suit and uses a towel t... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Tartaglia, a rotund figure who w... |
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| Description: | The cast and crew of the film "Gallant Lady" preparing to shoot a scene on a lake. The motion picture camera and crew are on a raft on the left, and are sh... |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin, dressed in a German ethnic costume, standing on a pier on a lake with crew members during the filming of "The Great Dictator." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Reginald Jones (George Walsh) gazing up at Helen Lattimore (Florence Dixon) in a scene from the 1919 film "Never Say Quit." The two are on a yacht, and she... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Cast and crew of the 1951 film "The African Queen" on a boat, preparing to film a scene. They are floating on a body of water, with trees behind them. Acto... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Crew, in foreground, filming a scene for the 1951 film "The African Queen." Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are in a boat with a microphone over thei... |
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| Description: | Cast and crew preparing to film a scene from the 1938 film "Blockade" on a sound stage. The set is made to look like a dock, with a group of actors in a bo... |
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