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"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"

Date: 1950
Description: Scene still from "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
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Welles as Dreedle

Date: 1970
Description: Orson Welles as General Dreedle in "Catch 22," the film version of Joseph Heller's classic anti-war story about Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desper...
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Tracy Takes Off

Date: 1932
Description: Spencer Tracy in "Sky Devils," Howard Hughes's silly World War I comedy. Tracy (center) and William Boyd play two inept stowaways who end up on a ship that...
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Tracy Plays Doolittle

Date: 1944
Description: Spencer Tracy as Jimmy Doolittle in a B-25 during a scene from "Thirty-Seconds Over Tokyo" (MGM 1944).
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"Devil Dogs of the Air"

Date: 1934
Description: Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Margaret Lindsay in a publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air" (WB, 1935). In this production Cagney and O'Brien play tw...
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"Sky Devils" Props

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Description: Vintage World War airplanes used in the filming of "Sky Devils" (1932), a motion picture produced by Howard Hughes.
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"Test Pilot"

Date: 1938
Description: A publicity still featuring the lead actors in "Test Pilot," an MGM 1938 motion picture release. "Test Pilot" was the story of a reckless commercial test p...
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"Dive Bomber" Helmet

Date: 1941
Description: A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Be...
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"Men with Wings"

Date: 1938
Description: Beaver Dam's favorite son Fred MacMurray (right) co-starred with Ray Milland and Louise Campbell in "Men with Wings," a 1938 Paramount release that traced ...
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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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Four of the Hollywood Ten

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Description: Four members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are: Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, and Dalton Tr...
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Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber

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Description: Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire.
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Free the Hollywood Ten

Date: 10 28 1947
Description: Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the Hollywood Ten, together with members of their families at a demonstration before their impr...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Ronald Reagan in "This is the Army"

Date: 1943
Description: Ronald Reagan on the set of the Warner Bros. film "This is the Army."
Drawing

Costume Design for "Hud"

Date: 1963
Description: A pencil drawing of a costume for Melvyn Douglas as Homer Bannon in the film "Hud". The man in the drawing is wearing a cowboy hat, work shirt, jeans, and ...
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Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in "To Catch a Thief"

Date: 1955
Description: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are cheek to cheek in this close-up publicity still for "To Catch a Thief" (Paramount 1955).
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Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn in "Sabrina"

Date: 1954
Description: Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn are about to kiss in a publicity still for "Sabrina" (Paramount 1954).
Print

"Night and the City" Lobby Card

Date: 07 25 1950
Description: Lobby card advertising the film "Night and the City" by 20th Century-Fox.
Print

"Chad Hanna" Lobby Card

Date: 1940
Description: Lobby card advertising the 20th Century-fox film "Chad Hanna."

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