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Dane County Amateur Theatrical Group

Date: 1923
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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Scene Still from "Foreign Correspondent"

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Description: Scene still from the 1940 film "Foreign Correspondent." Cars and people on bicycles pass a large crowd of people under umbrellas standing on the steps of a...
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Play at Marine Club

Date: 04 03 1941
Description: Group of people on stage at Marine Club.
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Scene from "Bobbed Hair"

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Description: A scene from the 1925 film "Bobbed Hair" of people at a costume party. Marie Prevost, as Connemara Moore, is dressed as a nun and stands between Reed Howe...
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Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated scene still for the film "Foreign Correspondent." Pedestrians are walking with umbrellas down the sidewalk in the rain. On the street people are r...
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Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of a group of people, interior.
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Reception for Canada Lee

Date: 10 14 1945
Description: Six people stand near a table with a punch bowl, some posing for the camera and others seeming unaware of it. Caption reads: "Reception for Canada Lee, sta...
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"Argentine Love" Lobby Card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1924 film "Argentine Love" starring Bebe Daniels and Ricardo Cortez. The woman in the center has a look of fear on her face as people ar...
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Plane Crash Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Six people crawl out of an airplane that is in the water. The scene is part of the film "Foreign Correspondent."
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A Scene from the Film "The Cool World"

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Description: An African American man making a speech in a scene from the film "The Cool World." He is standing slightly above a group of people. Someone is holding up a...
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"The Crowd" Production Still

Date: 1928
Description: Production still from the 1928 film "The Crowd." Two cameramen are sitting on a wooden slide behind a small camera. People are sitting at the top of the sl...
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"Phantom of Chinatown"

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Description: A group of people are standing and looking down at Dr. John Benton who has collapsed and is laying on the floor in a scene from the 1940 film "Phantom of C...
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Wisconsin Idea Theater Group

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Description: Members of the Wisconsin Idea Theater Group in costume, one man posing dressed as a fisherman, a woman as a bathing beauty, and another person as a giant f...
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Scene Still from "Young Romance"

Date: 1915
Description: Surrounded by wealthy hotel guests dressed in formal evening wear, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) learns that the person she is pretending to be...
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"If I Were King"

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Description: William Farnum, as Francois Villon, speaking to a crowd of people in a still for the film "If I Were King." Two men are kneeling before him, while the rest...
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Lenore Ulric and Frank Colvin in "Her Own People" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ...
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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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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Three people are standing in front of an automobile parked next to an airplane at Pennc...
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Three People Rehearsing a Play

Date: 11 01 1946
Description: Two men and one woman rehearsing a play.
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 15 1940
Description: In the center of a large crowd of people in the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, actress Paulette Goddard dressed in white is smiling broadly as is Charlie Ch...

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