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| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch (wearing eyeglasses), the author of Psycho, sitting at a table with Janet Leigh. His wife Marion Bloch stands behind him. The man in the bow t... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | George Peppard (playing Paul Varjak) leans over the back in which lies Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in a publicity still for "Breakfast at Tiffany's... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn stand by a table with hors d'oeuvres and champagne in a scene still from "The Philadelphia Story" (MGM 1941). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Luise D'Auvergne (Marguerite Courtot) and Jean-Marie (Owen Moore) board a seaplane in a production still from the Famous Players film "The Kiss." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dramaic scene still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "Bigger Than Life," featuring Walter Matthau (playing Wally Gibbs), James Mason (playing Ed Avery)... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a movie poster. Shows a scene with two people in conflict: a man with a raised arm and a woman putting up her hands in defense |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of Interior bedroom with young woman in bed being comforted by a servant - a white actress in blackface. ("Black face" is written on the back of... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of two women, one extending her hand to a man, another man is standing by; a female servant in blackface is in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The silent film actors Viola Dana and Bert Lytell, wearing costumes for different productions, knock their coffee cups together in a toast that is apparent... |
| Date: | 04 19 1970 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt, Noel Coward, and Lynn Fontanne walking together on the Ten Chimneys property. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Agnes Moorehead as 'Endora' from the TV show "Bewitched." She is holding a cigarette holder up to her mouth and is smiling. The ... |
| 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: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Elaine May and Mike Nichols sitting on stools and performing during an appearance on the Jack Paar Program on NBC. |
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| Description: | Faye Emerson sitting next to Eleanor Roosevelt. The two are both wearing nice, but casual dresses. Faye was married to Eleanor's son Elliott from 1944-1950... |
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