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Black Friars Play "The Glass Menagerie"

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a...
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Mae Marsh Publicity Still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face.
Poster

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

Date: 
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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Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas

Date: 1941
Description: Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas in a publicity still for That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists, 1941).
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Burgess Meredith, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas

Date: 1941
Description: Burgess Meredith, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas in a publicity still for That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists, 1941).
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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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Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien in "Sunrise."

Date: 1927
Description: The Wife (Janet Gaynor) flees from the Man (George O'Brien) after he has tried to kill her, in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Fox, 1927).
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Margaret Livingston and George O'Brien in "Sunrise."

Date: 1927
Description: The Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston) urges the Man (George O'Brien) to kill his wife so he can run away to the city with her, in Sunrise: A Son...
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Traffic in Souls Scene Still

Date: 1913
Description: The characters Lorna Barton (played by Ethel Grandin) and Bill Bradshaw (William Cavanaugh) in a cafe scene from Traffic in Souls (1913, IMP).
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Irene Castle

Date: 1938
Description: Studio portrait of Irene Castle by Ernest Bachrach and copyrighted by RKO in 1938. This photograph was used to promote the Fred Astare and Ginger Rogers fi...
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Irene Castle and Robert Treman.

Date: 06 1922
Description: Original caption: "Irene Castle and her husband, Robert Treman, leaving London for Paris via the aerial route on Mrs. Castle's latest trip abroad."
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Scene Still from Their First Mistake

Date: 1932
Description: Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, and Stan Laurel in Their First Mistake (MGM 1932).
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Mae Busch

Date: 
Description: Undated publicity still of Mae Busch.
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Mae Murray

Date: 1908
Description: Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance...

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