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"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"

Date: 1950
Description: Scene still from "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
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On the set of "Youth Takes a Fling"

Date: 11 08 1938
Description: Cast and crew setting up a shot for the film "Youth Takes a Fling" starring Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea. An International D-series panel truck was used in...
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Sherman PTA Play Cast

Date: 01 23 1932
Description: Sherman PTA Players, winners of the 4th Dane Co. Drama Preliminary Contest at DeForest, in the fainting scene in "Bills."
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Play Scene from "Uncle Jimmy" by Zona Gale

Date: 02 06 1932
Description: Badger Social Center (Badger School ?) Rt. 5 home talent players "Uncle Jimmy" by Zona Gale play scene. Winner of Dane County State Tournament at Bascom Th...
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Pierceville Mothers' Club Players

Date: 01 18 1932
Description: Pierceville Mothers' Club players in costume for the play "Sons of Soil," taken on the stage of the Sun Prairie parish hall after the group won the first D...
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Cast of a French Playlet

Date: 05 14 1929
Description: University of Wisconsin student cast in costume and on stage for one of two French playlets.
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University of Wisconsin Theater Play

Date: 02 06 1930
Description: University of Wisconsin, theater play, "Locked Windows."
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Cast of a French Playlet

Date: 05 15 1929
Description: University of Wisconsin student cast in costume and on stage for one of two French playlets.
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Scene from "Importance of Being Earnest"

Date: 02 07 1929
Description: Scene from the play "Importance of Being Earnest" at the Unversity Theater, pre-prom play.
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Scene from "Importance of Being Earnest"

Date: 02 07 1929
Description: Scene from play "Importance of Being Earnest" at the Unversity Theater, pre-prom play.
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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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Wisconsin Union Theater Centennial Play, "River Boat"

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat, an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Uni...
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Black Friars Play "The Glass Menagerie"

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a...
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Nita Naldi in a Scene Still from Blood and Sand

Date: 1922
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...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
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...
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Theater Guild Opens Season

Date: 09 1959
Description: Carol Bryant, Robert Rancourt and Nancy Fowlkes act out a scene from "The Cold Wind and the Warm", the opening play of the Madison Theater Guild season pre...
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Joel McCrea and Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Publicity photo of Joel McCrea and Laraine Day on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." The two, along with five other people, are in the water wait...
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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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