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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This scene still for the 1922 Warner drama "The Beautiful and the Damned" is set in a wrecked room with an overturned chair and table, broken picture frame... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Jack Bronson (played by Raymond Bloomer) has been beaten senseless in an underworld bar. Violet Gray (played by Marion Davies dressed in a Salvation Army u... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | In a log cabin, Bradley Yates (played by Frank Mayo) is confronted by four armed vigilantes, who wear klan-style hoods. The mountain girl Talithy Millicudd... |
| 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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| Description: | Still from the 1921 film "Fool's Paradise". Arthur Phelps (Conrad Nagel) gestures toward Samaran (Julia Faye) who is seated cross-legged on a small platfor... |
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| Description: | Director Cecil B. DeMille confers with actors John Davidson and Julia Faye on the set of the 1922 film "Fool's Paradise". Davidson is dressed in a uniform ... |
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| Description: | Myrna Loy, who played the Sengalese spy Fifi in the 1927 film "Ham and Eggs at the Front", poses for a photograph. Loy is wearing a black curly wig and bla... |
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| Description: | Cally Brown (Louise Fazenda) and Ham (Tom Wilson) sit next to each other on a small sofa in a scene from the 1927 film "Ham and Eggs at the Front". They ar... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Nine young people posing on stage. One person is in blackface. Caption reads: "Dane County Wis Amateur theatrical group 1923". |
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| Description: | Agnes Moorehead sits across a small table and leans toward Lionel Barrymore. Two large radio microphones hang in-between them. The two were part of the r... |
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