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| Date: | 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James J. Corbett in His New Play A Naval Cadet" across top, Charles T. Vincent's name beneath title upper left and "Direction o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front view of the New Amsterdam Theatre (Theater), which advertises the 1925 Ziegfield Follies on its marquee and on street level the play "The Knife in th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Dixieland Theatre in South Jacksonville, Florida, before it was converted by the Gaumont Company into a film studio. |
| Date: | 10 15 1940 |
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| Description: | Crowds gather in front of the Astor Theatre in New York for the premiere of "The Great Dictator" on October 15, 1940. |
| Date: | 07 22 1965 |
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| Description: | Several actors, all of whom are white and are wearing "yellowface" makeup to caricature Asians, are either dancing or looking on. Caption reads: "The Chine... |
| Date: | 10 15 1940 |
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| Description: | The grand staircase of the Capitol Theater in New York is packed with people waiting for the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," October 15... |
| Date: | 05 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Simulated Communist Control-The local movie theater is seized by Communist authorities and pictures confiscated with Communist dominated fi... |
| Date: | 03 11 1969 |
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| Description: | A man in costume — including greasepaint and exaggerated eyebrows and lips — posing holding a cane. Caption reads: "Charles Abbott, dressed for his role as... |
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