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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Dancers in elaborate costumes and huge headdresses perform onstage in "Glorifying the American Girl," a 1929 Paramount musical. The heads of some pit music... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of the dancer Irene Castle wearing the lace Dutch cap Vernon bought her in Brussels in 1912. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mrs. Vernon Castle In her 'preparedness suit.' This is made on strictly mannish lines, and has no trimming whatever. She is shown here... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Irene Castle holding one of her small Belgian Griffon dogs. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Large, illustrated image of a man's head floating at the top with other smaller figures surrounding him. A band is playing on the le... |
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| Description: | A belly dancer performing outdoors on the set of the TV show "Klondike." She has her arms raised above her head holding a large scarf. There is a log cabin... |
| Date: | 10 24 1966 |
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| Description: | Two couples are dancing in a ballroom with full-length curtains in the background. Caption reads: "The dance music appealed to (from left) Mr. and Mrs. Jos... |
| Date: | 08 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four couples dancing near airplanes, while several other people look on. One person is playing the accordion. Caption reads: "They moved t... |
| Date: | 02 03 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrating a dance move while a man is watching. Caption reads: "Concentration is required when taking a dance lesson. Miss Maria Diaz, an instr... |
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| Description: | Sammy Davis Jr. posing with his hands up and his mouth open in front of a curtain. He is wearing a suit coat, tie, hat and a pinky ring on one hand. |
| Date: | 08 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Paal and Leif Rock, twin brothers from Norway, sitting in the front seat of a car. The pair, also known as the Rocky Twins, were dancers and drag queens in... |
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| Description: | Marion Davies standing between Paal and Leif Rock, also known at the Rocky Twins, in a still from the film "Blondie of the Follies." The three are dressed ... |
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| Description: | Harry Lynde Bradley, and his wife Margaret "Peg" Blankney Sullivan Bradley, dancing at a party. |
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| Description: | Dancers taking a curtain call on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." The orchestra is in a pit in front of the stage, and two men and two women ar... |
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| Description: | Chorus girls standing on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." Each dancer is standing on one leg with the other leg bent at the knee. The orchestra... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of dancers in a circle during the "Shadow Waltz" number in the film "Gold Diggers of 1933." The dancers are each wearing large hoop skirts an... |
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| Description: | Three women in costumes dance in a scene from the 1926 film "Up in Mabel's Room". Each of them wears a white disc shaped hat, dark shorts, frilly cuffs ar... |
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