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Under the Gaslight Poster

Date: 1867
Description: Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w...
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Robert Bloch at Table with Janet Leigh

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Description: Robert Bloch (wearing eyeglasses), the author of Psycho, sitting at a table with Janet Leigh. His wife Marion Bloch stands behind him. The man in the bow t...
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Cast of Ziv Television's series Boston Blackie

Date: 1951
Description: Boston Blackie (played by Kent Taylor), Mary Wesley (Lois Collier), and Inspector Faraday (Frank Orth), the cast of the television show Boston Blackie
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Bloch, Crawford and Castle

Date: 08 07 1963
Description: Clipping from a movie magazine of Robert Bloch sitting at a reception table with Joan Crawford and William Castle. The text with the clipping reads "Joan C...
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Gloria Link

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Gloria Link placed second for outstanding performance in the Wisconsin Players' summer season. This was according to a poll of the playbill's directors con...
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Nakoma School Play

Date: 11 17 1950
Description: Nine Nakoma School third grade girls dressed in costumes of the countries they represented for a class play, "Democracy for Boys and Girls." The children w...
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Theda Bara as Cleopatra

Date: 1917
Description: Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat...
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George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in a Scene Still from "Sunrise"

Date: 1927
Description: The Man (George O'Brien) suffers with guilt as he remembers his wedding vows, while the Wife (Janet Gaynor) comforts him, in a scene still from "Sunrise: A...
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Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, and Peter Fleming

Date: 03 1950
Description: Noel Coward with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at the premiere of "The Astonished Heart" in London.
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Agnes Moorehead

Date: 1904
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age sitting in a handsome wicker baby carriage outdoors.
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Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, John Noble, and George Hill on the set of Sunshine Alley

Date: 1917
Description: The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo...
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Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Gish

Date: 1923
Description: Backlit publicity still of Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Dorothy Gish.
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Publicity Still from The Wicked Lady

Date: 1945
Description: Margaret Lockwood with pistol drawn and sitting on a horse. She stars as Barbara Worth in the 1945 Gainesborough film The Wicked Lady. The costume d...
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Publicity Still from The Importance of Being Earnest

Date: 1952
Description: Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, and Michael Denison in The Importance of Being Earnest (British Film Makers, 1952). Beatrice Dawson designed the costum...
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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, c. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: William Fox presents VALESKA...
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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt for The Red Rose

Date: 1911
Description: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt for the 1911 Broadway production The Red Rose in which Suratt played Lola, a Parisian artist's model who falls in ...
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Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1907
Description: Valeska Suratt's early fame was for her elaborate costumes, wasp waist, ample bosom and hips. She appeared in the 1906 musical The Belle of Mayfair ...
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Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1910
Description: Valeska Suratt starred in the 1910 play The Girl with the Whooping Cough. The stamp on the back of the print reads: "A.H. Woods presents VALESKA SU...
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity photograph by Gerald Carpenter of Los Angeles. Three-quarter length portrait of Valeska Suratt wearing a white fur suit, hat, and muffler as she ...
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Valeska Suratt

Date: 1916
Description: Full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt wearing a white fur suit, hat, and muffler as she sits on a black bear rug.

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