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| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air," (Warner Brothers 1935) in which Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien appeared with Jimmy Cagney. In this production, ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A vintage German Gotha airplane brought to Hollywood by Howard Hughes for use in "Hell's Angels," together with members of the Caddo Company's film crew an... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Scene at Caddo Field during the filming of "Hell's Angels," Howard Hughes' extravagant World War I aviation film. In this scene, the large vintage Gotha b... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Richard Barthelmess, the future actor, is about 12-years-old in this studio portrait. He is dressed as a soldier, probably one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough R... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Actors Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in a scene from the Warner Brothers' film "Desperate Journey." |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lt. Ronald Reagan and Corp. Craig Stevens on the set of the Warner Brothers' film "This is the Army." |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan on the set of the Warner Bros. film "This is the Army." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Royal Beaudry (played by Charles Ray) peers cautious from the open door of a rough stone building with a revolver in his hand in a scene still from "The Sh... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Larry Young (played by Wallace Reid in the uniform of a sergeant in the Canadian army) embraces Elaine Debaux (Ann Little in a nurse's cape) in a scene sti... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker. |
| Date: | 07 31 1959 |
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| Description: | William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, and Ross Elliott as Dr. George Batton, stand on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. Th... |
| Date: | 09 23 1959 |
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| Description: | William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, stands next to Fred Beir, who played Lt. Art Frey, and Nan Peterson, who appeared as Ann Hammond on an episode of... |
| Date: | 03 24 1960 |
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| Description: | William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, shakes hands with John Van Dreelen, who played Colonel Tolchek, a Soviet cosmonaut, in an episode of the televisi... |
| Date: | 06 11 1959 |
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| Description: | An actor, dressed as an astronaut, is seen on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. He is standing near the leg of a huge s... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Marc Blitzstein in U.S. Army Air Corps uniform at a piano, singing into a BBC microphone. Caption on reverse of image reads "London, 1943". |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Democracy (played by Douglas Fairbanks) punches Prussianism (Bull Montana) on the jaw in a promotional still from "Sic 'Em, Sam" a short silent film made f... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
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