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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 84 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
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Remove Topic: Academy Award

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

37c Cary Grant single

Marilyn Monroe

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

29c Grace Kelly single

“Did I Remember”

Dorothy Dandridge

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

Marlene Dietrich

41c Legends of Hollywood: James Stewart single

39c Black Heritage: Hattie McDaniel single

Ingrid Bergman

Lobby card for The Joe Louis Story

Moon Kwan

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

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

32c Marilyn Monroe single

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller

Marilyn jumping

Portrait of Marilyn

Marilyn with barbells

Gene Autry

Joan Crawford

Robert Mitchum

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