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| Description: | Anna Neagle [Florence Marjorie Robertson] (1904-1986), started as a dancer and became a popular film actress. |
| Date: | 10 31 1932 |
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| Description: | Children in Halloween costumes carrying signs for Jimmy Durante's "Phantom President" movie, including horse and carriage with drivers and riders. |
| Date: | 12 31 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people drinking coffee and being served donuts on New Year's Eve at the Strand Theater. In the center is a sign for the "Just Imagine" movie. |
| Date: | 11 29 1947 |
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| Description: | In the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, manager Fred Reeths is holding Johnny Heitz while he drops a coin into the Empty Stocking Club stocking. Johnny's moth... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Frank Chimera, Rochelle Hudson and Robert Bloch (in eyeglasses) are seated at a table at an event related to the release of the film Strait Jacket. ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1963 |
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| Description: | Clipping from a movie magazine of Robert Bloch sitting at a reception table with Joan Crawford and William Castle. The text with the clipping reads "Joan C... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert and boxer/author Jim Tully shake hands. Each is smiling and wearing a boxing glove on one hand. This publicity still may be a reference ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert and Greta Garbo shake hands and smile at one another their first day on the set of the movie "Queen Christina." She is wearing a fur coa... |
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| Description: | Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the French film. Illustrated image of a clock face partially obscured by a shadow. The clock covers part of the front of a building. |
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| Description: | Janet Leigh and Edith Head standing next to a table with five Oscar statues. Edith is holding an Oscar statue in her hands. Janet is wearing a full-length ... |
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| Description: | Henry Weiner, United Artists manager in Cuba, is honored for his twenty years with the company. He is sitting at a table with his wife along with Ernesto P... |
| Date: | 05 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Letter from Joseph Aizer to H.W. Schroeder of United Artists concerning his brother and his efforts to protect United Artists' interests in Iran and Iraq. ... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Letter to Dan Talbot from Emile de Antonio. The letter is on Manger Hay-Adams Hotel letterhead and concerns a possible retrospective of de Antonio's films. |
| Date: | 11 22 1968 |
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| Description: | Letter dated November 22, 1968 from Milton Pickman to George Seaton. Pickman is trying to convince Seaton to cast his client Rita Hayworth in the role of I... |
| Date: | 02 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Letter to Harry Tugend from Dalton Trumbo dated February 2, 1948. Trumbo is explaining to Tugend that because he has been blacklisted he does not have the ... |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Two page memo dated February 25, 1959 from Eddie Lewis to Kirk Douglas concerning the "oysters and snails" scene in the film "Spartacus." Lewis shares his ... |
| Date: | 06 05 1956 |
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| Description: | A woman is modeling a dress with a shawl and a train. Behind her women are sitting at tables watching her go by. Caption reads: A dress worn by actress ... |
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| Description: | Norma Talmadge, as Ann Hunniwell, sits across a table from Lew Cody, as Frank Devereaux, in a scene from the 1921 film "The Sign on the Door". The two are... |
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