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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Mary MacLaren

Date: 1916
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Mary MacLaren young star of "Bluebird Photoplays."
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Dagmar Godowsky

Date: 12 28 1923
Description: Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress.
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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 im...
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Fredric March as a Child

Date: 1900
Description: A photograph of Fredric March as a child (on the right) performing in a church pageant with another child.
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Frederic March on Fraternity House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class.
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Agnes Moorehead As A Girl

Date: 1904
Description: Agnes Moorehead as a child, posing with a parasol next to a chair in front of a photographic studio painted backdrop. She is wearing a white dress and has ...
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Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
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Ed Wynn and George White

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Description: Ed Wynn, in makeup for "Manhattan Mary," plays checkers with George White.
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Fred Coe

Date: 1956
Description: Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board.
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Howard Hughes in Airplane Cockpit

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Description: Howard Hughes - aviation-obsessed motion picture producer, millionaire playboy, and aircraft business leader - seated in the cockpit of his airplane after ...
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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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Herbert Biberman

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Description: Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist...
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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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Barbary Coast Cast, production still

Date: 1935
Description: The cast of Barbary Coast pose on the set. In the back from left to right are: Samuel Goldwyn and Howard Hawks. In front from left to right are Miri...
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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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Edna Ferber, Writing

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Description: Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen.
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Agnes Moorehead

Date: 1904
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age sitting in a handsome wicker baby carriage outdoors.
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Richard Barthelmess as a Boy

Date: 1906
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...
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Publicity Still of Richard Barthelmess Answering Fan Mail

Date: 04 20 1922
Description: Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig...

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