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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 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
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Remove Museum / Unit: National Portrait Gallery

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

37c Cary Grant single

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

29c Grace Kelly single

“Did I Remember”

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

42c Bette Davis single

Marlene Dietrich

41c Legends of Hollywood: James Stewart single

39c Black Heritage: Hattie McDaniel single

Ingrid Bergman

Lobby card for The Joe Louis Story

44c Legends of Hollywood: Katharine Hepburn single

Lobby card for the film Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

37c Legends of Hollywood: John Wayne single

Marilyn Monroe

32c Marilyn Monroe single

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller

Joan Crawford

Fredi Washington, from the unrealized portfolio "Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After"

29c Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy single

Eisenstaedt: Germany

Stamp with a light-skinned man with bright blue eyes at three quarter view with suit and purple tie

44c Legends of Hollywood: Gary Cooper single

Kirk Douglas and Goldie Hawn

33c James Cagney single

Ethel Waters, from the unrealized portfolio "Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After"

Edward G. Robinson, Pabst

33c Edward G. Robinson single

33c Edward G. Robinson pane of twenty

37c Greta Garbo single

32c James Dean single

James Dean, Chet and John Orion

Jet Vol. IX No. 3

Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor

34c Lucille Ball single

33c Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" single

Lena Horne, from the unrealized portfolio "Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After"

Forever Gregory Peck single

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