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Background imagePersonality Collection: Dylan Thomas Drinking & Smoking

Dylan Thomas Drinking & Smoking
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) drinking a glass of beer and smoking while seated at a desk with stacks of his books of poetry, New York City, c. 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Captive Audience

Captive Audience
US evangelist Billy Graham addresses a crowd of football supporters at Stamford Bridge, London, during half-time at the match between Chelsea and Newcastle United

Background imagePersonality Collection: Rorkes Drift

Rorkes Drift
The Defence of Rorkes Drift during the Zulu War, 22nd January 1879

Background imagePersonality Collection: Portrait Of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

Portrait Of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull
Portrait shows the chief of the Sioux tribe Sitting Bull (1831 - 1890), known as Tatanka Iyotake to his people, as he sits in Bismarck, North Dakota, 1881

Background imagePersonality Collection: Isle of Man TT

Isle of Man TT
4th June 1913: Tom Peek on a Peelers and W Creyton on an Ariel passing through Kirk Michael village during the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Publicity Still Of Annie Oakley

Publicity Still Of Annie Oakley
Publicity still of American sharpshooter Annie Oakley (1860 - 1926) as she loads a shotgun near a table display of adorned with various marksmanship medals, late 1800s

Background imagePersonality Collection: Fleming At Desk

Fleming At Desk
24th March 1958: Ian Fleming, British author and creator of James Bond, at his desk in his study. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle
September 1948: British aeronautical engineer Sir Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996), who patented the basic design for the turbojet engine, wearing his RAF uniform. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey
circa 1935: American heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey (1895 - 1983). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor of the carbon telephone transmitter (1877), phonograph (1878), and incandescent lamp with carbon filament (1879)

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Bronze statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlin, Germany

Bronze statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlin, Germany

Background imagePersonality Collection: Monument to Franz Liszt, 1902, by sculptor Hermann Hahn

Monument to Franz Liszt, 1902, by sculptor Hermann Hahn, Carrara marble, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Background imagePersonality Collection: Peter Tchaikovsky

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), the Russian composer. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Battle Of Breitenfeld

Battle Of Breitenfeld
The First Battle of Breitenfeld, one of the battles fought during the Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648), fought 17th September 1631 near the village of Breitenfeld, Saxony, now a suburb of Leipzig

Background imagePersonality Collection: Second Chorus

Second Chorus
1940: American actor and dancer Fred Astaire (1899 -1987) holds a trumpet as he sits back to back with American actor Paulette Goddard (1911 - 1990)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Ludwig Van Beethoven
German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827). (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Holmess Creator

Holmess Creator
circa 1930: Scottish novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: WB Yeats

WB Yeats
Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Washington in Mount Vernon, USA

Washington in Mount Vernon, USA
america, american, black, building, celebrity, colouring, contemporary, cropped, date, depiction, digital, drawing, drawn, face, famous, head shot, historic, historic illustration, landscape, look

Background imagePersonality Collection: Female Nude

Female Nude
circa 1930: A close-up of the wife of photographer Chaloner Woods striking a pose for her husband. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Cut Up Dempsey

Cut Up Dempsey
1947: American world champion heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey (1895 - 1983) taking care of a cut over his eye. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Ulysses Grant

Ulysses Grant
circa 1875: General Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822 - 1885), the commander of the Union forces during the American Civil war and later the 18th President of the United States (1869 - 1877)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier
American actor Sidney Poitier finds himself in a tight spot while filming In the Heat of the Night'. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: What A Widow

What A Widow
1930: American actor Aileen Pringle (1895-1989) holds a jacket as she enters a bedroom in which American actor Lew Cody (1884-1934)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Kathleen Key

Kathleen Key
circa 1934: American actress Kathleen Key (1902-1954), who was picked from over a hundred other hopefuls for a role in the Ferdinand Earl production Omar Khayyam because of her oriental eyes

Background imagePersonality Collection: We Live Again

We Live Again
circa 1934: Anna Sten (1908 - 1993), the stage name of Anjuschka Stenski Sujakevitch

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Ladies Should Listen

Ladies Should Listen
circa 1934: Frances Drake applies a few last minute touches to her make-up before going onto the set of her latest film, Ladies Should Listen, directed by Frank Tuttle for Paramount

Background imagePersonality Collection: Behind The Scenes

Behind The Scenes
1934: Russian actress Anna Sten in the Samuel Goldwyn production of We Live Again'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Drake And Puzzle

Drake And Puzzle
1934: American film actress Frances Drake holding a fashionable numerical puzzle. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Young Star

Young Star
1934: David Holt, 6 year old star of Paramount picture You Belong To Me discusses his lines with director Alfred Werker and actress Helen Mack. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Bread Cast

Bread Cast
1924: Actors and actresses from the cast of Bread, the MGM picture based on the novel by Charles G Norris

Background imagePersonality Collection: Mae West

Mae West
1934: American film actress Mae West. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Adam and Evil

Adam and Evil
1927: American actors Lew Cody (1884-1934) and Gwen Lee (1904-1961) look sad while sitting at a table in party hats in a still from director Robert Z Leonard's film, Adam and Evil'

Background imagePersonality Collection: Adrienne Ames

Adrienne Ames
circa 1934: Adrienne Ames, the Hollywood star and film actress, signed by Paramount Pictures. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Loretta Young

Loretta Young
circa 1934: American actress Loretta Young (1913 - 2000) plays a fashionable young lady in The House Of Rothschild (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Mandalay

Mandalay
1934: Kay Francis (1899 - 1968) wears a day dress of pale pink eyelet embroidery in tunic linen over a petalled skirt of pink organza

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Warble

Warble
circa 1927: Actors Marie Dressler (1869-1934), Eddie Gribbon and Turner Savage warble between scenes of the MGM film The Callahans and the Murphys'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Tim McCoy

Tim McCoy
circa 1934: American actor and star of many westerns Tim McCoy. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry
1934: Mexican actress Dolores del R o as Madame DuBarry with Victor Jory in William Dieterle's remake of Madame DuBarry'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Drake And Lupino

Drake And Lupino
1934: Leading lady Frances Drake (right), models a two-piece linen suit with wooden buttons

Background imagePersonality Collection: Barbara Cartland

Barbara Cartland
circa 1928: British romantic novelist Barbara Cartland (1901 - 2000) at her desk. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Frank Muir

Frank Muir
26th February 1973: Frank Muir, the British television and radio scriptwriter and entertainer. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison
circa 1929: Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931), the inventor of the electric light bulb. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Willing Helpers

Willing Helpers
1926: Mr Lorraine is shackled to his motorbike by some enthusiastic supporters. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Stunt Rider

Stunt Rider
1926: Mr Lorraine, a motorcyclist, astride his machine to which he is shackled and handcuffed. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Valve Radio

Valve Radio
December 1925: John Bull listening to a large valve wireless. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Lillian Roth

Lillian Roth
1929: Dark-haired American actress Lillian Roth (1910 - 1980), whose traumatic life story was filmed as I'll Cry Tomorrow'. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Dieterle Directs

Dieterle Directs
1942: German film director William Dieterle leans against a train car, wearing white gloves, as he directs American actor Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), standing on the car's observation platform

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Johnny Mack Brown

Johnny Mack Brown
circa 1932: Former football star John Mack Brown (1904 - 1974), an MGM player, takes Fay Webb, a new screen actress for a buggy ride around the MGM lot. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: June Marlowe

June Marlowe
circa 1926: June Marlowe (1903 - 1984) the American actress who worked for Universal Studios. She appeared in several Rin Tin Tin pictures, and in Laurel And Hardys first picture

Background imagePersonality Collection: Louise Fazenda

Louise Fazenda
circa 1925: Louise Fazenda (1895 - 1962), the Hollywood actress and comedienne who entered films in 1913 with Universal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Natalie Kavanko

Natalie Kavanko
circa 1923: Natalie Kavanko, the Russian actress signed by MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: The Delightful Rogue

The Delightful Rogue
circa 1932: A publicity still of Rita La Roy and Rod La Rocque for the RKO feature Delightful Rogue'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Powder My Back

Powder My Back
1928: American actress Irene Rich (1897 - 1988) plays Fritzi Foy in the film Powder My Back, directed by Roy del Ruth for Warner Brothers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Anthony Nace

Anthony Nace
circa 1928: Anthony Nace, the recent Paramount discovery and Hollywood film star and actor. He starred in A Son Comes Home and Murder With Pictures (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Rosemary Lane

Rosemary Lane
1939: American actress Rosemary Lane (1913 - 1974) clings to a plastic lilo whilst swimming in Lake Arrowhead with actor Jeffrey Lynn

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Lillian Knight

Lillian Knight
circa 1926: Lillian Knight, the film actress and one of Mack Sennett's models in the film From Rags to Britches'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Annapolis

Annapolis
1928: Johnny Mack Brown (1904 - 1974) and Jeanette Loff star in the film Annapolis, directed by Christy Cabanne for Pathe. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Beauty Prize

Beauty Prize
1924: Viola Dana (1897 - 1987) stars in The Beauty Prize, in which she plays a contestant in a beauty competition. The film was directed by Lloyd Ingraham for MGM

Background imagePersonality Collection: Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
1928: Josephine Dunn plays a ballerina in the film Excess Baggage, directed by James Cruze for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
1928: Josephine Dunn plays a ballerina in the film Excess Baggage'. Title: Excess Baggage Studio: MGM Director: James Cruze (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Dark Secrets

Dark Secrets
1923: American actress Dorothy Dalton (1894-1972) stars in the silent film Dark Secrets, directed by Victor Fleming. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Raymond And Maritza

Raymond And Maritza
1932: Gene Raymond and Sari Maritza (1910 - 1987) the Anglo-Austrian leading lady feature in the film Forgotten Commandments

Background imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality 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 imagePersonality Collection: Plunder

Plunder
1923: American actress Pearl White (1889-1938) stars in the Pathe silent serial Plunder, directed by George B Sietz. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePersonality Collection: Just Married

Just Married
circa 1931: James Hall (1900 - 1940) and Ruth Taylor in a scene from the film Just Married, where two women are in deep discussion watched apprehensively by two men



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