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Denham Studios restaurant by Tony Wysard, 1937Intensively populated illustration by Tony Wysard, showing imagined diners at the restaurant at Denham Studios. Illustration includes a key to all caricatures portrayed but include David Niven
The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan - The Auditorium. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres Chain. The first theatre to be designed to incorporate a speaker system for sound
The Kino Cinema, Walton-on-the-Naze, EssexThe Kino Cinema in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. This was the towns first cinema. Cycle racks for the use of patrons were a feature. circa 1935
Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs released in UK, 1938Page from The Bystander showing two scenes from the Disney full-length animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the time it was released in Britain
Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. DavisNoises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Trigger the horse. Date: 20th century
Leslie Howard as RJ Mitchell in The First of the FewLeslie Howard (1893-1943) photographed on the film set for The First of the Few, in which he played the Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell. 1942
Hayley Mills in The Chalk GardenThe young British actress Hayley Mills (b.1946) during the filming of The Chalk Garden, released in 1964. Date: 1963-1964
Casino and Wells Beach Theatre, Wells Beach, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1940
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in Swing Time. 1936
12013364Poster, Roberta, film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Date: 1935
SHIRLEY TEMPLE, American child starSHIRLEY TEMPLE (1928 -2014), American child star of the 1930s, seen here giving a curtsey Date: circa 1930s
Advert for Kodak moviesA woman enjoying the Cine-Kodak. Date: 1926
Claudette Colbert, actressClaudette Colbert (1903-1996), French-born American-based actress of screen and stage. circa 1940s
Norma Shearer, Canadian actress. Date: 1934
Tom Mix, American film star -- he appeared in more than 400 westerns. Date: circa 1920s
Cary Grant, American film starCary Grant, English-born American film star and stage actor. Date: circa 1940s
Residence of Bing Crosby, Beverly Hills, California, USAResidence of the film star Bing Crosby, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 20th century
Gerda Maurus - Austrian film actressGerda Maurus (1903-1968) - Austrian actress Date: early 1930s
Marilyn Monroe, American film star and actress. Date: 1950s
Poster advertising Nicholas Nickleby film, Ealing Studios, produced by Michael Balcon, directed by Cavalcanti, screenplay by John Dighton, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway
June Howard-Tripp, English actressJune Howard-Tripp, sometimes referred to simply by her stage name, June, English actress. Date: 1934
Angela Baddeley with her daughter JaneActress Angela Baddeley (4 July 1904 22 February 1976) with her little daughter June from her marriage with Stephen Thomas
DaciaA portrait sketch of Jamaica born actress, Dacia Deane, 1899-1989, known for playing roles in movies including Love, Life and Laughter, (1923) and Easy Virtue (1928). Date: 1921
Scenes from The Doomed Battalion directed by Cyril Gardner. The film dramatised alpine fighting between Austrian and Italian forces during World War I. Date: 1932
Scene from The Faithful HeartA scene from the film The Faithful Heart depicting a fictional Victoria Cross investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Date: 1932
Fritz Lang's MImages from Fritz Lang's 1931 film M, including Peter Lorre (1904-1964) as Hans Beckert in his first major film role. Date: circa 1931
Tallulah Bankhead in Thunder BelowActress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) appearing in the film Thunder Below with Charles Bickford (1891-1967) and Paul Lukas (1894-1971). Date: circa 1932
Cicely Courtneidge and Jack HulbertCicely Courtneidge (1893-1980) and her husband Jack Hulbert (1892-1978) appearing in their latest film Jack's The Boy'. Date: 1932
Sydney Fairbrother and George RobeyCharacter actors Sydney Fairbrother (1873-1941) and George Robey, also known as George Wade (1869-1954) playing Mrs and Mr Bindle
Miniature Film SetsDanish art director and costume designer Max Ree (1889-1953) works out possible camera angles with the help of miniature film sets
Filming at Elstree StudiosFilm director T. Hayes Hunter (1884-1944) working with actors Herbert Marshall (1890-1966) and Edna Best (1900-1974) during the filming of The Calendar at Elstree Studios. Date: 1931
Screen LoversMatheson Lang (1879-1948) and Dorothy Chili Bouchier (1909-1999) appearing in the 1931 film Carnival'. This was a re-make of a film from 1921 of the same name, in which Lang had also starred
Alma RubensActress Alma Rubens (1897-1931) appearing as Lady Hermione in the film Gerald Cranston's Lady'. Date: 1924
Georgia HaleActress Georgia Hale (1900-1985) had just been picked to appear in Chaplin's film The Gold Rush'. Despite a promising start, her acting career foundered with the advent of the talkies'
The City That Never SleepsScenes from the lost 1924 silent film The City That Never Sleeps, showing a prohibitionist nightclub. Date: 1924
Stills from The Beauty PrizeThe Beauty Prize (here captioned as The Beauty Contest') was a silent film from 1924, now lost. It starred Viola Dana (1897-1987). Date: 1924
Mae Murray (1885-1965) the American actress, dancer, film producer and screenwriter, born Marie Koenig. Here she is appearing in the silent film Circe The Enchantress'. Date: circa 1925
Mildred Harris in The DeceiversActress Mildred Harris (1901-1944) started as a child actress, had a succesful career in silent movies, but struggled with the advent of talkies'. She was also the first wife of Charlie Chaplin
Ginger Rogers and David NivenGinger Rogers (1911-1995) and David Niven (1910-1983) in publicity for the film Bachelor Mother'. Date: 1939
Ann Sheridan in Winter CarnivalAmerican actress Ann Sheridan (1915-1967), real name Clara Lou Sheridan, here appearing in the film Winter Carnival'. Date: 1939
Maurice Chevalier and Marie DeaActors Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) and Marie Dea (1912-1992) appearing in the film Pieges ('Personal Column'). Date: 1939
A Gone With The Wind partyActress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), film producer David O. Selznick (1902-1965) and actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) at the Trocadero
Actor Conrad VeidtGerman actor Conrad Veidt, shortly to appear as Diasar the Magician in the film The Thief of Baghdad'. Date: circa 1939
British actress Anna Neagle (1904-1986), later made a Dame, and born Florence Wilcox. This publicity photograph is from her first Hollywood outing
Actress Valli ValliBorn Valli Knust in Berlin, Valli Valli (1882-1927) spent most of her life in England. She was a musical comedy actress who later made a transition into silent films. Date: circa 1910
Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000) portraying G. K. Chesterton's sleuth Father Brown in the 1954 film of the same name. In the United States the film was marketed under the title "The
Italian film director and screenwriter Mario Camerini (1895-1981), seen here on the set of his film "Ulysses" which was released in 1954. Date: circa 1953