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Let's Go to the Movies
Early Movies
Silent Era
Golden Age

The Movies

Golden Age of Hollywood

Glitz, glamour, and Technicolor set the scene for Hollywood's Golden Age from around the late 1920s to the early 1960s.

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National Portrait Gallery 270 Filter by term Exclude term
National Postal Museum 28 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of American History 13 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian American Art Museum 6 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of African American History and Culture 5 Filter by term Exclude term
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 2 Filter by term Exclude term
National Air and Space Museum 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian Institution Archives 1 Filter by term Exclude term

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Photographs 146 Filter by term Exclude term
Drawings 76 Filter by term Exclude term
Prints 39 Filter by term Exclude term
Exterior views 30 Filter by term Exclude term
Postage stamps 28 Filter by term Exclude term
Paintings 17 Filter by term Exclude term
Sculpture 4 Filter by term Exclude term
Sheet music 4 Filter by term Exclude term
carbro print 3 Filter by term Exclude term
gelatin silver print 3 Filter by term Exclude term

Culture

African Americans 10 Filter by term Exclude term
British 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Date

1920s 17 Filter by term Exclude term
1930s 107 Filter by term Exclude term
1940s 82 Filter by term Exclude term
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1960s 28 Filter by term Exclude term
1970s 9 Filter by term Exclude term
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2000s 14 Filter by term Exclude term
2010s 7 Filter by term Exclude term

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United States 53 Filter by term Exclude term
North America 46 Filter by term Exclude term
California 39 Filter by term Exclude term
United States of America 30 Filter by term Exclude term
Los Angeles 29 Filter by term Exclude term
Hollywood 19 Filter by term Exclude term
New York 13 Filter by term Exclude term
Kings 11 Filter by term Exclude term
Europe 6 Filter by term Exclude term
Burbank 3 Filter by term Exclude term

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National Portrait Gallery Collection 270 Filter by term Exclude term
Currently not on view 264 Filter by term Exclude term
National Postal Museum Collection 28 Filter by term Exclude term
Popular Entertainment 13 Filter by term Exclude term
Photography 9 Filter by term Exclude term
Work and Industry: Photographic History 9 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection 6 Filter by term Exclude term
Graphic Arts 5 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection 5 Filter by term Exclude term
Culture and the Arts: Entertainment 4 Filter by term Exclude term

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Portraits 277 Filter by term Exclude term
Entertainers 276 Filter by term Exclude term
Motion pictures 275 Filter by term Exclude term
Arts and Culture 270 Filter by term Exclude term
Movie actor 241 Filter by term Exclude term
Performing arts awards 196 Filter by term Exclude term
Academy Award 186 Filter by term Exclude term
Women 161 Filter by term Exclude term
Costume 151 Filter by term Exclude term
Men 141 Filter by term Exclude term

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Stamp with head and shoulders of a light-skinned man in a tuxedo with dark hair and eyes

37c Cary Grant single

Marilyn Monroe

Katharine Hepburn

Bette Davis

Stamp with etching of a light-skinned woman with chin-length, light hair and a pearl necklace

29c Grace Kelly single

Joan Crawford

“Did I Remember”

Bette Davis

Lauren Bacall

Dorothy Dandridge

Notorious

Stamp with image of light-skinned woman with brown curly hair looking at us wearing a red coat

42c Bette Davis single

Anna May Wong

Lena Horne

Joan Crawford

Humphrey Bogart

Marlene Dietrich

Humphrey Bogart

41c Legends of Hollywood: James Stewart single

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

39c Black Heritage: Hattie McDaniel single

Humphrey Bogart

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Jeanne d 'Arc

Katharine Hepburn

To Catch a Thief

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Jimmy Stewart

Lobby card for The Joe Louis Story

Jimmy Stewart

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

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