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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Director D.W. Griffith appears to be adjusting actor Robert Harron's moustache. Original caption: "Making up Bobbie." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Scene still with Marshall Neilan, in white shirt, and Ruth Roland in a room crowded with police officers from one of the many silent films they made for Ka... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) and Lenka Peterson (playing Lucy H... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of Sorrell Booke (playing Dr. Jackson) and James Whitmore (playing John Ho... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of Richard Ward (playing Burt Wilson) and James Whitmore (playing John Hor... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton). |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton). |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) sitting at a table with two uniden... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) and Dan Priest (playing a bus driv... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) in a diner with two unidentified a... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Three young cavemen--cavepersons?--react in fear to an offscreen threat. From left to right the actors are Anna Q. Nilsson, Pauline Garon, and Theodore Kos... |
| Date: | 11 1917 |
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| Description: | In this photo-collage, part of a promotional still from Charlie Chaplin's film "The Adventurer" with an actor wearing a huge false beard and moustache clos... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | At left, the make-up artist, probably Robert Stephanoff, watches as Erich von Stroheim pinches his right cheek and examines his make-up in a hand mirror. V... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Fredric March appears as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a publicity photograph for the Paramount film. March as Dr. Jekyll wears a tuxedo. Mr. Hyde wears ... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length color portrait of Marc Alaimo in full makeup as his character 'Gul Dukat' from the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Autographed ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Cinematographer James Wong Howe applying makeup to actor John Garfield who is sitting in a chair on the set of the 1947 film "Body and Soul." |
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| Description: | Glynis Johns watching unknown actor having makeup applied to his face by an unidentified man, possibly makeup artist Len Garde, on the set of the 1948 film... |
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| Description: | Actors Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson outdoors filming a scene from "The Jackie Robinson Story." Dee is getting makeup applied or touched up, probably by mak... |
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| Description: | Actor Louis Hayward watching an unidentified makeup artist working on actor D'arcy Corrigan on a prison set for the 1939 film "The Man in Iron Mask." |
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