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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 134 Filter by term Exclude term
National Postal Museum 28 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of American History 9 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of African American History and Culture 4 Filter by term Exclude term
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 2 Filter by term Exclude term
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Smithsonian American Art Museum 2 Filter by term Exclude term

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection 4 Filter by term Exclude term
American Winners: Athletes and Entertainers Who Shaped the Nation 3 Filter by term Exclude term
NPG, West Gallery 240 3 Filter by term Exclude term

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Motion pictures 143 Filter by term Exclude term
Entertainers 136 Filter by term Exclude term
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Arts and Culture 134 Filter by term Exclude term
Movie actor 124 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

Katharine Hepburn

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

Notorious

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

42c Bette Davis single

Humphrey Bogart

41c Legends of Hollywood: James Stewart single

39c Black Heritage: Hattie McDaniel single

Jeanne d 'Arc

Katharine Hepburn

To Catch a Thief

Ingrid Bergman

Jimmy Stewart

Lobby card for The Joe Louis Story

Jimmy Stewart

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn in "Little Women"

John Wayne

John Wayne

Katharine Hepburn -- "Bo Peep on Mast"

Katharine Hepburn and Adolphe Menjou in "Morning Glory"

Katharine Hepburn -- "Bo Peep as Sherlock Holmes"

Katharine Hepburn -- Bo Peep After Hit by Pie

44c Legends of Hollywood: Katharine Hepburn single

Self Portrait as Coco

Katherine Hepburn as Bo Peep Hit by Pie

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

John Wayne

37c Legends of Hollywood: John Wayne single

Spencer Tracy

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