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Laurence Olivier

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Description: Director and actor Laurence Olivier preparing to film Ophelia's drowning scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." He is standing next to a movie camera wearing w...
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Scene from "Hamlet"

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Description: Elevated view of cast and crew filming a scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." Laurence Olivier and Norman Wooland have a microphone over their heads. A stage...
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Laurence Olivier

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Description: Director and actor Laurence Olivier looking through a device on the set of the 1949 film "Hamlet." The device appears to provide a literal frame for the vi...
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Laurence Olivier as Hamlet

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Description: Actor and director Laurence Olivier filmed while performing the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from the 1949 film "Hamlet." A light is in the upper left co...
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Lewis Milestone and Aaron Copland

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Description: Composer Aaron Copland and director Lewis Milestone during the filming of the 1943 film "The North Star." Milestone is seated on a crane behind a movie cam...
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Scene from "The North Star"

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Description: Elevated view of assorted cast and crew on a village set of the 1943 film "The North Star." Cinematographer James Wong Howe, in the lower right corner near...
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Filming "The North Star"

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Description: A group of men on a sound stage, watching something out of frame, probably the filming of the 1943 film "The North Star." Director Lewis Milestone is to th...
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René Clair

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Description: Director René Clair looking at a model of set from the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." The model represents the interior of tent at a racetrack.
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René Clair, Linda Darnell, and Dick Powell

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Description: Director René Clair talking with actors Linda Darnell and Dick Powell on the set of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." A microphone is over their heads....
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Linda Darnell and René Clair

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Description: Actress Linda Darnell and director Réne Clair (far left) during the production of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." Men are near a movie camera in the ...
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René Clair

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Description: René Clair and an unidentified man during the making of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." Both men are behind a movie camera perched on a crane.
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"Salt of the Earth" Production Still

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Description: Director Herb Biberman and three other men are sitting and standing on a platform built on the roof of a shack during the filming of "Salt of the Earth." B...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin sits at the far end of a long restaurant table at the Waldorf Astoria talking to ten reporters. A waiter serves drinks.
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin talking to nine reporters sitting at the end of a long restaurant table at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Behind them, a waiter is watchi...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin talking to fifteen reporters sitting on upholstered chairs around him in a meeting room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. A small coffee ...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin talking to eight or more reporters sitting around him in a meeting room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin is sitting drinking coffee with four women and a man in a restaurant in New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The meeting is related to the New...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin grinning for the camera in the middle of a group of four women and a man in a meeting at the Waldorf Astoria related to the New York premie...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin listening to a woman reporter during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria related to the New York premiere of "The Great Dictator." Ab...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin grinning and shaking hands with a man in a dark suit. They are at an airfield next to a plane. Perhaps this is Chaplin's arrival for the Ne...

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