Mary Pickford receives The Best Actress Oscar for "Coquette." The ceremony was held on April 3, 1930, at an awards banquet at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Pictured here with Pickford, Hans Kraly, William C. De Mille and Warner Baxter. / File Reference # 34145-277THA
Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, "Drums Along The Mohawk" (1939) 20th Century Fox / File Reference # 34145-276THA
Yves Montand, "The Wages of Fear" (1953) Distributors Corporation of America / File Reference # 34145-271THA
Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh , "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-267THA
Emil Jannings, "The Last Laugh" (1924) Universal Pictures / File Reference # 34145-266THA
Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan , "Hideout" (1934) MGM / File Reference # 34145-265THA
Ethel Merman, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938) 20th Century Fox / File Reference # 34145-264THA
Robert Newton, "The Hidden Room" (1949) General Film Distributors / File Reference # 34145-262THA
Johanna ter Steege, "The Vanishing" (1988) Argos Films / File Reference # 34145-260THA
Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, "Animal Crackers" (1930) Paramount / File Reference # 34145-256THA
Yves Montand, "The Wages of Fear" (1953) Distributors Corporation of America / File Reference # 34145-255THA
"Real Old Fashioned Mutts" dog show organized by the RKO Pantages Theater (1930) / File Reference # 34145-253THA
Jean Gabin, "The Human Beast" (1938) Paris Films Location / File Reference # 34145-250THA
Emil Jannings, "The Last Laugh" (1924) Universal Pictures / File Reference # 34145-249THA
Peter O'Toole, "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) Columbia Pictures / File Reference # 34145-248THA
Maureen O'Sullivan, Director E. A. Dupont, "The Bishop Misbehaves" (1935) MGM / File Reference # 34145-247THA
Ralph Richardson, Merle Oberon, "The Lion has Wings" (1939) United Artists / File Reference # 34145-244THA
Peter O'Toole, "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) Columbia Pictures / File Reference # 34145-241THA
Charlton Heston, "Planet of the Apes" (1968) 20th Century Fox / File Reference # 34145-239THA
Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1934) Paramount Pictures / File Reference # 34145-237THA
Johnnie Schofield, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney, Norman Pierce, "Went the Day Well?" (1942) Ealing Studios / File Reference # 34145-233THA
Uno Henning, "A Cottage On Dartmoor" (1929) British Instructional Films / File Reference # 34145-227THA
Peter O'Toole, "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) Columbia Pictures / File Reference # 34145-226THA
Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company and the older brother of Walt Disney, circa 1962 / File Reference # 34145-220THA
Dirk Bogarde, John Barrie, "Victim" (1961) Rank Film Distributors / File Reference # 34145-219THA
Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron, "Sapphire" (1959) Rank Film Distributors / File Reference # 34145-215THA
Bill Kerr, Eric Roberts, "Coca-Cola Kid" (1985) Cinecom International Films / File Reference # 34145-212THA
Bebe Daniels, "Feel My Pulse" (1928) Paramount Pictures / File Reference # 34145-211THA
Edna Purviance, "A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate" (1923) United Artists / File Reference # 34145-203THA
Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, "Michael Collins" (1996) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-199THA
Natalya Bondarchuk, Director Andrei Tarkovsky, "Solaris" (1972) Mosfilm / File Reference # 34145-193THA
Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, "Solaris" (1972) Mosfilm / File Reference # 34145-192THA
Andy Griffith, "A Face In The Crowd" (1957) Warner Bros./ File Reference # 34145-188THA
Wallace Ford, Loretta Young, "Employees' Entrance" (1933) First National Pictures / File Reference # 34145-182THA
Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, "Diary of a Madman" (1963) United Artists/ File Reference # 34145-180THA
Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan, Jane Wyman, "Three Guys Named Mike" (1951) MGM / File Reference # 34145-179THA
Thelma Todd, Robert Woolsey, "Hips, Hips, Hooray!" (1934) RKO Radio Pictures / File Reference # 34145-174THA
Scene Still, "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (1936) U.S. Resettlement Administration/ File Reference # 34145-168THA
Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, "Flirtation Walk" (1934) First National Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-162THA
Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, "Tug Boat Annie Sails Again" (1940)Warner Bros./ File Reference # 34145-159THA
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, "Valley of the Kings" (1954) MGM / File Reference # 34145-158THA
Robert Keith, Virginia Mayo, "Devil's Canyon" (1953) RKO Pictures / File Reference # 34145-156THA
Paulette Goddard, "An Ideal Husband" (1947) 20th Century Fox / File Reference # 34145-153THA
Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone, "The Stranger's Return" (1933) MGM
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Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone, "The Stranger's Return" (1933) MGM / File Reference # 34145-148THA
Linda Darnell, "Everybody Does It" (1949) 20th Century Fox/ File Reference # 34145-141THA
Katharine Hepburn, John Barrymore, Elizabeth Patterson, "A Bill Of Divorcement" (1932) RKO Radio Pictures / File Reference # 34145-139THA
Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Elaine Stewart, "Take the High Ground!" (1953) MGM / File Reference # 34145-138THA
Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury, Brandon De Wilde, "All Fall Down" (1962) MGM/ File Reference # 34145-137THA
Julie Adams, "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (1954) Universal Pictures / File Reference # 34145-136THA
Janet Margolin, Keir Dullea, "David and Lisa" (1962) Continental Distributing / File Reference # 34145-131THA
Janet Blair, Rosalind Russell, "My Sister Eileen" (1942) Columbia Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-130THA
Ida Lupino, Gig Young, "Lust for Gold" (1949) Columbia Pictures / File Reference # 34145-127THA
Huntz Hall, "Crashing Las Vegas" (1956) Allied Artists Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-126THA
Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Farley Granger, William Phipps, "They Live By Night" (1949) RKO Radio Pictures / File Reference # 34145-125THA
Herbert Lom, Anne Crawford, "Darktower" (1943) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-124THA
George Murphy, Frances Gifford, "The Arnelo Affair" (1947) MGM/ File Reference # 34145-121THA
Esther Williams, Tony Martin, "Easy to Love" (1953) MGM / File Reference # 34145-117THA
Ernest Borgnine, "The Rabbit Trap" (1959) United Artists / File Reference # 34145-116THA
Dulcie Gray, Phyllis Calvert, "They Were Sisters" (1945) Gainsborough Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-113THA
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-108THA
Brian Aherne, Rosalind Russell, "My Sister Eileen" (1942) Columbia Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-106THA
Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, "Make Way for Tomorrow" (1937) Paramount Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-103THA
Anne Crawford, Oliver Wakefield, "The Peterville Diamond" (1943) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-100THA
Anderson Lawler, Gloria Blondell, Ronald Reagan, Dick Purcell, Addison Richards, "Accidents Will Happen" (1938) Warner Bros./ File Reference # 34145-093THA
Richard Widmark, "The Frogmen" (1951) 20th Century Fox. Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox/The Hollywood Archive- File Reference # 34082-857THA
Dave Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Rick Nelson, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" (circa 1967). Photo Credit: American International Television/The Hollywood Archive- File Reference # 34082-855THA
Harry Chandler, Governor Friend Richardson, William Randolph Hearst, Louis B. Mayer, circa 1925 / File Reference # 1003-875THA
William Randolph Hearst, circa 1935. American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. Photo by James Manatt / File Reference # 1003-873THA
Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603, holding a scepter and an orb, wearing the dress she customarily wore at the opening of Parliament. Engraving after I. Oliver, 1620 / Wellcome Collection / File Reference # 1003-872THA
The inside of a jail of the Inquisition, with a priest supervising his scribe while men and women are suspended from pulleys, tortured on the rack or burnt with torches. Etching. Wellcome Collection. / File Reference # 1003-870THA
A distressed young woman protests her innocence and prays before the judge and the counsel of the Spanish inquisition. Aquatint by Jazet after S.J.E. Jones. Wellcome Collection.
/ File Reference # 1003-869THA
Engraving detail of a procession of the Spanish Inquisition in Goa, India entering the church with standards and banners. An annual event to publicly humiliate and punish the heretics, it shows the Chief Inquisitor, Dominican friars, Portuguese soldiers, as well as religious criminals condemned to be burnt in the procession. circa 1700's Wellcome Collection. / File Reference # 1003-868THA
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, circa 1882. Wellcome Collection / File Reference # 1003-866THA
Leonardo da Vinci. Mezzotint by C. Townley, 1777, after Leonardo/ The British Museum / File Reference # 1003-865THA
Leonardo da Vinci. Line engraving by R. Morghen after Leonardo / Wellcome Collection / File Reference # 1003-864THA
Plato, Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Etching by D. Cunego, 1783, after R. Mengs after Raphael / File Reference # 1003-863THA
Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. Mezzotint after J. Smith, 1712, after Sir G. Kneller, 1702 / Wellcome Collection / File Reference # 1003-857THA
Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. Line engraving by B. Reading, 1799, after Sir P. Lely / Wellcome Collection / File Reference # 1003-855THA
Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it. Line engraving by C. Barth / Wellcome Collection.
/ File Reference # 1003-854THA
Portrait of Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, by engraver D.J. Pound
/ File Reference # 1003-853THA
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, by Alexander Bassano, 1882 / File Reference # 1003-850THA
Sketch of Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it. / File Reference # 1003-849THA
Mata Hari in 1906, soon after the Dutchwoman reinvented herself as an exotic dancer. Inspired by dances she had seen in the Dutch East Indies, she took a stage name that means "eye of the day" in Malay.
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Mata Hari in 1906, soon after the Dutchwoman reinvented herself as an exotic dancer. Inspired by dances she had seen in the Dutch East Indies, she took a stage name that means "eye of the day" in Malay.
/ File Reference # 1003-843THA
Oil on canvas painting of Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes by Jose Salome Pina (1830?1909), Date circa 1879
/ File Reference # 1003-842THA
Aeria view of Graumann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, circa 1952
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Oil on panel Portrait of Henry VIII of England circa 1537 by Hans Holbein the Younger / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid / File Reference # 1003-838THA
Nicoletta Braschi, "Mystery Train" (1989) Orion Classics (USA)/ File Reference # 34082-578THA
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee, "Mystery Train" (1989) Orion Classics (USA)/ File Reference # 34082-577THA