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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Actor Juan Chacon is shown leaning against a building studying his script on the set of "Salt of the Earth". |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a... |
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| Description: | Men working on constructing a film set, a replica of the ancient Macedonian Palace of Pella, for the film "Alexander the Great" on a hilltop overlooking th... |
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| Description: | Full page "Salute to Cuba" in the United Artists newsletter "Around the World" from November 27, 1942. There are five photographs showing the staff and var... |
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| Description: | Rachel Robinson and actress Ruby Dee during the production of the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." They are in front of a fence at a baseball field. ... |
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| Description: | Art Director Carmen Dillon and an unidentified man are viewing the construction of one of the sets from the 1948 film "Hamlet." Another unidentified man is... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin sitting talking to reporters, about six of whom are visible. A small table covered with glasses of ice water, a coffee cup, cigarettes, etc... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin and a reporter sitting side by side during a meeting of the press at the Waldorf Astoria for the New York premiere of "The Great Dictator."... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin is sitting on the far left with his arm draped over the chair and is talking to a circle of about twelve seated reporters during a meeting ... |
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