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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 239 Filter by term Exclude term
National Postal Museum 23 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of American History 11 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

Humphrey Bogart

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

Katharine Hepburn in "Little Women"

Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn (with her brother Tom)

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