Sammy Davis Jr. and Son

Sammy Davis Jr. and his son Mark in 1964. Photo: Leonard McCombe/Time-Life Pictures.

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Charlie Chaplin

1917-1918 : Colour photographs of Charlie Chaplin, Chris Wild

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Vincent Price

American actor, writer, and gourmet and well known for his distinctive voice,
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was born in St Louis, Missouri.  c. 1930s

Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was an American singer and actor who was a political activist for the Civil Rights Movement. c.1938  Wikipedia

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Sean Connery

Sean Connery comes 3rd in Mr. Universe 1953, Curated by Chris Wild 

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Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson,  (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) majestic singer and actor, brilliant scholar and athlete, fierce political activist and all-around renaissance man. He is seen here in 1925 in a photo by the famed British photographer Alex Stewart Sasha. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis.

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Ed Wynn

Ed Wynn (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966) was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

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Rin Tin Tin

Rin Tin Tin (often billed as Rin-Tin-Tin in the 1920s and 1930s) was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in 23 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame.

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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robeson

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robeson waving from SS Majestic: Paul Robeson, the Black singer and actor, is shown with Mrs. Robeson, as they arrived in New York City from Europe aboard the S. S. Majestic. He was on his way to Hollywood to appear in movies there.

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Wife Versus Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary (1936) MGM Studios
Directed By: Clarence Brown
Starring: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy & Jean Harlow

Wife vs. Secretary (1936) Jean Harlow & Myrna Loy at odds for Clark Gable!

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Jacques Feyder

Visages d’enfants, Jacques Feyder, 1923.

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Ivor Novello

David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

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Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor, (January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964), born Edward Israel Iskowitz, in New York City. After becoming a smash hit in vaudeville, Ziegfeld signed him for his Midnight Frolics and then the Follies of his Midnight Frolics and then the Follies of 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1923.  From there he went to films in the 1920s, starring in Whoopee, Kid from Spain and Kid Millions. Eddie Cantor was an American  performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter.

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Pantomimist

Haha, this gentleman is a [Pantomimist] Unknown, American, 1870–79 

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Jackie Gleason

Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver, a disc jockey and later a comedian in night clubs. He designed his own fantastic round house that was built in Peekskill, New York, in the 1950s and remains a modern marvel. The set of "The Honeymooners" (1955) show was based on Jackie's childhood home on Chauncey Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant (originally Bushwick) area of Brooklyn, New York. The apartment building is still there and looks very much the same as in Jackie's time.

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Eddie Albert

(L to R) Sue Lyon, Mildred Dunnock, Anne Bancroft, Margaret Leighton, Eddie Albert

A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Eddie Albert was a circus trapeze flier before becoming a stage and radio actor. Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid. In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a new sitcom for CBS called Green Acres. His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a farmer.Co-starring on the show was Eva Gabor as his urban, spoiled wife.

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Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue (January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American actor and a journalism student at Columbia University when he began playing in stock productions. He made his film debut in Man Afraid and in 1959 signed as a contract player with Warner Bros., which promoted him to stardom with A Summer Place that year. His most successful film was  (1961), in which he played the title character.

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Frank Silvera

Actor, director, producer, teacher, Frank Silvera aka Man of a Thousand Faces, (July 24, 1914 - June 11, 1970), young emerging actor, in the American Negro Theatre, during the early stages of his career in theatre, film and television. Due to his looks, ability to transcend color, race, his skill with language, the new nearly dead art of make-up, and perhaps the surname of Silvera, Frank moved into the new elite inner circles of the leading American Theatre groups, where he became an active member of the famed Actors' Studio of New York, a "spin-off" of the old Group Theatre, of the Thirties.

Frank Silvera in the film, "Hombre."

Frank Silvera in the film, "Viva Zapata." 

Stan Laurel

Stanley Arthur "Stan" Jefferson Laurel, known as Stan Laurel, ( June 16, 1890 -February 23, 1965) was an  English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. Stan Laurel had been raised in English music halls. In 1910 he made his first trip to America.

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