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Background imageGenre Collection: King Kong

King Kong
1933: The giant ape, star of the Radio Picture King Kong, shown in comparison to eight normal sized apes, to emphasize its colossal size. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Viva Villa

Viva Villa
1934: Fay Wray, the American leading lady who was born in Canada, as she appears in Viva Villa!, directed by Jack Conway for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Exchange Of Wives

Exchange Of Wives
1925: American actor Lew Cody (1884-1934) features in the domestic comedy Exchange Of Wives'. Title: Exchange Of Wives Studio: MGM Director: Hobart Henley (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy
circa 1934: American actress Myrna Loy struts her stuff in a Mexican bar scene from an unknown film. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol
1934: Boris Karloff (1887 - 1969), the British character actor who appeared in films from 1919, as he appears in The Lost Patrol, directed by John Ford for RKO. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Bavarian Maid

Bavarian Maid
1934: A Bavarian maid in a still from the film The Mighty Barnum, directed by Walter Lang for 20th Century Pictures. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: No Highway

No Highway
American actor James Stewart (1908 - 1997) plays Theodore Honey in the film No Highway (US Title No Highway In The Sky'), adapted from the Nevil Shute novel

Background imageGenre Collection: Joan Collins

Joan Collins
1960: English actress Joan Collins provides an exuberant accompaniment to the saxophone in a club scene from the film Seven Thieves, directed by Henry Hathaway for 20th Century Fox

Background imageGenre Collection: Dance Of The Veils

Dance Of The Veils
1951: An exotic dance sequence from the film David And Bathsheba, directed by Henry King for 20th Century Fox. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Fine And Dandy

Fine And Dandy
1950: James Cagney (1899-1986) and Virginia Mayo star in the Warner Brothers song and dance film Fine And Dandy, alternatively titled West Point Story'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Tap Dance

Tap Dance
1937: Actor, dancer and politician George Murphy (1902 - 1992) dances with Eleanor Powell (1910 - 1982) in the MGM film Broadway Melody Of 1938, directed by Roy Del Ruth

Background imageGenre Collection: Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning
1950: Humphrey Bogart (1899 - 1957) gets his girl at the scene of an aircrash in the airborne romance Chain Lightning, directed by Stuart Heisler for Warner Brothers

Background imageGenre Collection: Claudia

Claudia
1943: American actress Dorothy McGuire (1912 - 2001) plays the title role in the film Claudia, directed by Edmund Goulding for 20th Century Fox. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Cohens And Kellys

Cohens And Kellys
1926: A man paints out the sign on a clothes shop in a scene from the film The Cohens and The Kellys, concerning friendly rivalry between Jewish and Irish neighbours

Background imageGenre Collection: East Side West Side

East Side West Side
1949: American actor Van Heflin (1910 - 1971) sitting in the front seat of his car with actress Beverly Michaels in a scene from the film East Side, West Side, directed by Mervyn Le Roy for MGM

Background imageGenre Collection: East Of Borneo

East Of Borneo
1931: American actress Rose Hobart presses herself to the chest of actor Charles Bickford (1889 - 1967) in a scene from the film East Of Borneo, directed by George Melford for Universal

Background imageGenre Collection: Doomed Battalion

Doomed Battalion
1932: Polish-Austrian actress Tala Birell (1908-1959) stars in the film The Doomed Battalion, set during World War I

Background imageGenre Collection: Guilty Hands

Guilty Hands
1931: Madge Evans (1909-1981) and William Bakewell star in the film Guilty Hands, a mystery directed by Ws Van Dyke for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Bandolero

Bandolero
circa 1925: Argentinian actor Paul Ellis as he appears in The Sporting Venue He recently played a toreador in Bandolero'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Monte Blue

Monte Blue
circa 1928: Monte Blue ( 1890 - 1963 ) in a scene from the film One Round Hogan'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: News Parade

News Parade
1928: Nick Stuart and Sally Phipps are about to share a kiss over the top of a rather battered camera in a scene from News Parade'

Background imageGenre Collection: Outcast

Outcast
1928: American actress Corinne Griffith (1898-1979) dressed in silver lame and holding an enormous balloon in a scene from the film Outcast'

Background imageGenre Collection: Pancho's Poncho

Pancho's Poncho
1923: Leon Bary plays Pancho the Mexican in the film Suzanna, directed by F Richard Jones for Mack Sennett. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Knight Fall

Knight Fall
1953: Anne Crawford (1920 - 1956) as Morgan Le Fay and Stanley Baker (1927 - 1976) as Mordred in the film The Knights of the Round Table directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by MGM

Background imageGenre Collection: The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
1926: Lars Hanson stars in the film The Scarlet Letter, a celebrated 17th century melodrama directed by Victor Sjostrom for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Smart Money

Smart Money
1931: American actress Noel Francis (1906 - 1959) stars in the crime drama Smart Money, directed by Alfred E Green for Warner Brothers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: It's A Great Feeling

It's A Great Feeling
1949: Jack Carson (1910 - 1963) and Doris Day listen at a doorway in a scene from the film It's A Great Feeling, directed by David Butler for Warner Brothers

Background imageGenre Collection: It's A Great Feeling

It's A Great Feeling
1949: Canadian comedy actor Jack Carson (1910 - 1963) and American actress Doris Day in a scene from the film It's A Great Feeling, directed by David Butler for Warner Brothers

Background imageGenre Collection: Task Force

Task Force
circa 1949: Four airmen in a scene from the film Task Force, directed by Jerry Wald for Warner. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: My Valley

My Valley
1941: Canadian actor Walter Pidgeon (1897 - 1984) plays a Welsh village preacher in the film How Green Was My Valley, directed by John Ford for 20th Century Fox. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Buster And Skulls

Buster And Skulls
1924: American comedian Buster Keaton (1895-1966) surrounded by skulls on poles, in a scene from The Navigator'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: High Kick

High Kick
1938: Joan Davis doing a high-kick on the football field, in a scene from the film Hold That Co-Ed'

Background imageGenre Collection: A Girl In Every Port

A Girl In Every Port
1952: Percy Helton (1894 - 1971), Marie Wilson (1916 - 1972) and Groucho Marx (1895-1977) star in the film A Girl in Every Port, directed by Chester Erskine and produced by RKO

Background imageGenre Collection: No Highway

No Highway
1951: James Stewart (1908 - 1997) stars with Jack Hawkins (1910 - 1973) in the film No Highway, adapted from the Nevil Shute novel

Background imageGenre Collection: Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard
Gloria Swanson (1897 - 1983) and Erich Von Stroheim (1885 - 1957) star in Sunset Blvd, Miss Swanson's last film in which she plays a parody of herself

Background imageGenre Collection: Chaplin's Back

Chaplin's Back
British comic actor Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, 1889 - 1977) playing an escaped convict who poses as a clergyman in the film The Pilgrim'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Fay Wray

Fay Wray
American actress Fay Wray in the clutches of King Kong, in a scene from the Hollywood horror movie, King Kong, directed by Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack for RKO

Background imageGenre Collection: King Kong

King Kong
A happy ending as Bruce Cabot (1904 - 1972) the square jawed American hero and Fay Wray the American leading lady are re-united high above New York in a scene from King Kong

Background imageGenre Collection: Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers
American singing cowboy star Roy Rogers (1911 - 1998), born Leonard Slye riding his horse and longtime co-star Trigger (1932 - 1965). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Elizabeth Prays

Elizabeth Prays
Actress Elizabeth Taylor praying in a scene from the film Ivanhoe, directed by Richard Thorpe for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis
Robert Taylor (1911-1969), Deborah Kerr and Buddy Baer (right) star in Quo Vadis, the story of a Roman commander who falls in love with a Christian girl

Background imageGenre Collection: Shane

Shane
American tough guy actor Alan Ladd (1913 - 1964) lays his opponent out cold in a barroom brawl scene from the film Shane, directed by George Stevens for Paramount

Background imageGenre Collection: Place In The Sun

Place In The Sun
Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) star in the Paramount melodrama A Place In The Sun'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning
American actor Humphrey Bogart (1899 - 1957) checks out a suit of flying gear in the film Chain Lightning, directed by Stuart Heisler for Warner Brothers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: The 13th Letter

The 13th Letter
Charles Boyer (1899 - 1978) and Michael Rennie (1909 - 1971) in the film The Thirteenth Letter directed by Otto Preminger and produced by 20th Century Fox. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: All About Eve

All About Eve
1950: Anne Baxter (1923-1985) as Eve Harrington has her telephone call abruptly cut off by Barbara Bates in a scene from the 20th Century Fox film All About Eve

Background imageGenre Collection: Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus
1932: German singer and actress Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992), born Maria Magdalena Von Losch stars in the melodrama Blonde Venus, directed by Josef Von Sternberg for Paramount

Background imageGenre Collection: La Boheme

La Boheme
1926: John Gilbert (1895 - 1936), born John Pringle, the American leading man whose popularity declined with talking movies

Background imageGenre Collection: The Sierra Madre

The Sierra Madre
1948: Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Walter Huston in a scene from the action adventure Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

Background imageGenre Collection: Ambush

Ambush
1950: Charles Stevens (centre) plays the role of an Apache in the film Ambush, directed by Sam Wood for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: The Unexpected Guest

The Unexpected Guest
1947: William Boyd (1895 - 1972), the American leading man stars in The Unexpected Guest, directed by George Archainbaud for United Artists. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Ziegfeld Girls

Ziegfeld Girls
1946: The Ziegfeld Girls in panther costume as they appear in the film Ziegfeld Follies, a spectacular revue depicted as a dream sequence in heaven, dreamt by Florenz Ziegfeld

Background imageGenre Collection: The Moon Riders

The Moon Riders
1920: Spanish actress Beatrice Dominguez wearing the apparel of a western gunman in a scene from the film The Moon Riders, directed by B Reeves Eason and Theodore Wharton for Universal Studios

Background imageGenre Collection: Cameraman

Cameraman
1928: Buster Keaton (1895 - 1966) stars with Marceline Day and Norman McNeil in the film The Cameraman, directed by Edward Sedgwick and Keaton for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Good And Naughty

Good And Naughty
1926: Polish actress Pola Negri (1897 - 1987) stars in the film Good And Naughty, directed by Malcolm St Clair for Paramount. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Jeanette Loff

Jeanette Loff
American actress and singer Jeanette Loff (1906 - 1942) as she appears in the silent sporting comedy, Hold Em Yale, directed by Edward H. Griffith, 1928. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: All The King's Men

All The King's Men
1949: Broderick Crawford (1910 - 1986) addresses the crowd from the balcony of his campaign headquarters in the political drama All The King's Men

Background imageGenre Collection: Soul Mates

Soul Mates
1926: Actors Edmond Lowe and Aileen Pringle in a romantic scene from Jack Conway's MGM film Soul Mates'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin
1940: Charles Chaplin (1889-1977) and Paulette Goddard (1911-1990) star in the United Artists film The Great Dictator, a comedy of mistaken indentity directed by Chaplin himself

Background imageGenre Collection: Red Badge Of Courage

Red Badge Of Courage
1951: Audie Murphy (1924 - 1971), the US leading man and one of America's most decorated soldiers, plays a young Unionist during the American Civil War in a scene from The Red Badge Of Courage

Background imageGenre Collection: Singin In The Rain

Singin In The Rain
1952: American actor-dancer Gene Kelly (1912 - 1996) rehearsing with Debbie Reynolds for the MGM musical Singin In The Rain, directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

Background imageGenre Collection: Classic Chaplin

Classic Chaplin
1928: English actor and director Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889 - 1977) plays his classic role as the little tramp in the film The Circus

Background imageGenre Collection: Sign Of The Cross

Sign Of The Cross
1932: Claudette Colbert (1903 - 1996) plays the Empress Poppaea in Cecil B DeMille's moralising film The Sign Of The Cross'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Large Weapon

Large Weapon
1943: Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982) and Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) star in the Paramount film For Whom The Bell Tolls, directed by Sam Wood. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Chicago

Chicago
1927: American actress Phyllis Haver (1899-1960), formerly Phyllis O'Haver plays murderess Roxie Hart in conversation with her lawyer in the film Chicago, directed by Frank Urson

Background imageGenre Collection: And Baby Makes Three

And Baby Makes Three
1949: Robert Hutton (1920 - 1994) and Barbara Hale drive along an urban street in And Baby Makes Three, directed by Henry Levin for Columbia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Dracula

Dracula
circa 1931: Bela Lugosi (1882 - 1956) about to drink a maiden's blood in a scene from the film Dracula, directed by Tod Browning. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village
1944: Dancing couple Tony and Sally De Marco perform a dance number in the 20th Century Fox music and dance extravaganza Greenwich Village, directed by Walter Lang

Background imageGenre Collection: Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
1931: American actor Fredric March (1897 - 1975) as Dr Jekyll in the screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Rouben Mamoulian for Paramount

Background imageGenre Collection: Pride Of The Yankees

Pride Of The Yankees
1942: Cabaret dancing duo Veloz and Yolanda perform the tango in a scene from the film The Pride Of The Yankees

Background imageGenre Collection: Paris Calling

Paris Calling
1941: German actress Elisabeth Bergner (1898 - 1986) dances with Ted Theodore in a scene from the Universal film Paris Calling, directed by Edwin L Marin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: Public Enemy

Public Enemy
1931: American actor James Cagney (1899 - 1986) plays scar-faced gangster Tom Powers in the film Public Enemy, directed by William A Wellman for Warner Brothers

Background imageGenre Collection: Sky Raiders

Sky Raiders
circa 1931: Marceline Day and Lloyd Hughes (1896 - 1958) share a mid-air embrace in a scene from the film Sky Raiders'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: The Lodger

The Lodger
1944: Merle Oberon (1911 - 1979) formerly Estelle O'Brien Merle Thompson, in a dance scene from The Lodger, directed by John Brahm for 20th Century Fox. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGenre Collection: The Lodger

The Lodger
1944: Laird Cregar (1916 - 1944), an American character actor is looking at the street sign for Slade Walk in a scene from The Lodger, set in the time of Jack the Ripper

Background imageGenre Collection: Duel In The Sun

Duel In The Sun
1946: American actor Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) stars as the gentle Jesse in a scene from Duel In The Sun, the story of a Native American girl who comes between two brothers

Background imageGenre Collection: Duel In The Sun

Duel In The Sun
1946: American actress Jennifer Jones, the screen name of Phyllis Isley, defends her bed and her honour in a scene from Duel In The Sun'

Background imageGenre Collection: Richard Cromwell

Richard Cromwell
1931: Richard Cromwell (1910-1960) stands aloft in the rigging of a large ship in a scene from the film Shanghaied Love'

Background imageGenre Collection: At The Circus

At The Circus
circa 1925: Actoress Alberta Vaughn (c.1905-1922) rides and elephant while the ringmaster, played comedian Billy Armstrong (1891 - 1924), gestures expansively in a scene from a Mack Sennett film

Background imageGenre Collection: Dancing Daughters

Dancing Daughters
1928: Joan Crawford (1904 - 1977 ) is comforted by Dorothy Sebastian (1903 - 1957) in a scene from Our Dancing Daughters, directed by Harry Beaumont for MGM/Cosmopolitan

Background imageGenre Collection: In The Rockies

In The Rockies
1942: American pin-up Betty Grable (1916 - 1973) and Cesar Romero (1907 - 1994) perform a song-and-dance number from the musical Springtime In The Rockies

Background imageGenre Collection: Spellbound

Spellbound
1945: Gregory Peck (1916 - 2003) and Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982) star as a psychiatrist and her patient in the film Spellbound, directed by Alfred Hitchcock for David O Selznick Studios

Background imageGenre Collection: Sporting Blood

Sporting Blood
1931: American actors Madge Evans (1909 - 1981) and Clark Gable (1901 - 1960) attend a race meeting in the horse racing film Sporting Blood, directed by Charles Brabin for MGM

Background imageGenre Collection: Street Scene

Street Scene
1931: Sylvia Sidney (1910 - 1999), Walter Miller (1892 - 1940), Adele Watson and Beulah Bondi (1889 - 1981) star in the film Street Scene, directed by King Vidor for United Artists



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