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Crater Players at Blue Mounds

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Performers Olaf Ussing, leaning on a cane, and Carole Branley rehearsing for the presentation of "The Drunkard", a Crater Players production. They are in f...
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Production still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Members of the cast and crew of the film "Foreign Correspondent" sitting and standing on the set.
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Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Laraine Day is helped by a man on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." She is wearing a dress and is soaking wet. She is either smiling or gritting...
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Joel McCrea and Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Laraine Day takes a photograph of Joel McCrea; both are smiling. Both are dressed very nicely. In the background a crew member looks at them from a raised ...
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John Belushi on Stage

Date: 1968
Description: John Belushi performing a scene with Virginia Newcomb from the play Night Must Fall at UW-Whitewater. Newcomb is sitting in a wheelchair and Belushi...
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Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald

Date: 1936
Description: Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald standing and holding hands in a scene from the film San Francisco. They are looking off to the right. MacDonald...
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Publicity Still from "The Cool World"

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Description: A publicity still from the film "The Cool World" showing Mrs. Custis (Gloria Foster) reaching towards an African American teenage boy who is sitting. A ref...
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"Scarlet Days"

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Description: Still from the film "Scarlet Days." A group of men and women are standing on a street and pointing toward a woman who is leaning against a pole. A number o...
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"For the Defense"

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Description: Three men restraining a woman in a still from the film "For the Defense." Another woman and a man are shielding a third woman.
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Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in The Bell Boy

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Description: Scene still from the 1918 silent film The Bell Boy. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is standing at the center of a group, wearing a plaid suit. He is holdin...
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John Garfield and Lili Palmer

Date: 1947
Description: Lili Palmer is resting her head on John Garfield's shoulder in a scene from the 1947 film "Body and Soul." A piece of equipment, possibly a microphone, is ...
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Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, and Glynis Johns

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Description: Actors Googie Withers, Griffith Jones and Glynis Johns filming a scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Withers is sitting in a chair with a newspaper, Jones ...
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Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson

Date: 1950
Description: Actors Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson pausing while filming a scene from the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." They are on a sound stage. In the foregro...
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Wedding Scene from "The Man in the Iron Mask"

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Description: Elevated view of the filming of the wedding scene from the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." Actor and extras are gathered on a large, two level church...
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James Whale, Louis Hayward, and Joan Bennett

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Description: Director James Whale and actors Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett on a garden set of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." They are on a sound stage, with...
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Jean Simmons

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Description: Actress Jean Simmons getting her hair adjusted by an unidentified woman, probably hairdresser Vivienne Walker. Simmons is sitting in costume on the set of ...
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"The World of Sholom Aleichem"

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Description: Sarah Cunningham is standing behind Morris Carnovsky, who is sitting, in a scene from the play "The World of Sholom Aleichem." She is smiling down on him w...
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Scene from "Alibi"

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Description: Dancers taking a curtain call on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." The orchestra is in a pit in front of the stage, and two men and two women ar...
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"Kiss Me Kate" Scene

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Description: A scene still from the 1953 film "Kiss Me Kate" starring Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson. In the scene, Keel, as Petruchio, has snared Kate, Grayson, aroun...
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Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur talk with director Frank Borzage on the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night". Borzage sits in a chair while Boyer ...

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