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
Howard Hawks, Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, "Twentieth Century" (1934) Columbia Pictures / File Reference # 34145-272THA
Yves Montand, "The Wages of Fear" (1953) Distributors Corporation of America / File Reference # 34145-271THA
George Woodbridge, Rosamund John, Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim, Leo Genn, "Green for Danger" (1946) General Film Distributors / File Reference # 34145-268THA
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
Karl Malden, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-258THA
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
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
Jack Hawkins, Claudette Colbert, "The Planters Wife" (1952) United Artists / File Reference # 34145-242THA
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
Charlotte Rampling, "The Night Porter" (1974) AVCO Embassy Pictures / File Reference # 34145-232THA
Zachary Scott, J. Carrol Naish, "The Southerner" (1945) United Artists / File Reference # 34145-231THA
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
Gloria Swanson, "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (1923) Paramount / File Reference # 34145-214THA
Bill Kerr, Eric Roberts, "Coca-Cola Kid" (1985) Cinecom International Films / File Reference # 34145-212THA
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, "Tarzan Escapes" (1936) Loew's Inc./ File Reference # 34145-206THA
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
Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, "12 Angry Men" (1957) United Artists / File Reference # 34145-187THA
Warren William, Loretta Young, "Employees' Entrance" (1933) First National Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-183THA
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
Scene Still, "Reptilicus" (1961) American International Pictures / File Reference # 34145-165THA
Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, "Flirtation Walk" (1934) First National Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-162THA
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, "Valley of the Kings" (1954) MGM / File Reference # 34145-158THA
Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, "High Wall" (1947) MGM / File Reference # 34145-157THA
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
Monroe Owsley, Ginger Rogers, "Hat Check Girl" (1932) Fox Film Corporation / File Reference # 34145-150THA
Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone, "The Stranger's Return" (1933) MGM
/ File Reference # 34145-149THA
Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone, "The Stranger's Return" (1933) MGM / File Reference # 34145-148THA
Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins, "The Stranger's Return" (1933) MGM / File Reference # 34145-142THA
Katharine Hepburn, John Barrymore, Elizabeth Patterson, "A Bill Of Divorcement" (1932) RKO Radio Pictures / File Reference # 34145-139THA
Janet Blair, Rosalind Russell, "My Sister Eileen" (1942) Columbia Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-130THA
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
Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, "Experiment Perilous" (1944) RKO Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-123THA
George Murphy, Frances Gifford, "The Arnelo Affair" (1947) MGM/ File Reference # 34145-121THA
Eleanor Parker, "Never Say Goodbye" (1946) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-114THA
Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, "Tension" (1949) MGM / File Reference # 34145-110THA
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34145-108THA
Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, "Make Way for Tomorrow" (1937) Paramount Pictures/ File Reference # 34145-103THA
Antonio Banderas, "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" (1990) Miramax / File Reference # 34145-101THA
Angie Dickinson, Richard Egan, "Tension at Table Rock" (1956) RKO Radio Pictures / File Reference # 34145-095THA
Anderson Lawler, Gloria Blondell, Ronald Reagan, Dick Purcell, Addison Richards, "Accidents Will Happen" (1938) Warner Bros./ File Reference # 34145-093THA
Alberto Closas, Lucia Bose, "Death of a Cyclist" (1955) Janus Films/ File Reference # 34145-091THA
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
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
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
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
Line engraving of Michael Nostradamus (aka Michel de Nostredame) (born December 14, 1503, Saint-R
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
Portrait of Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, engraving by A. Forestier, 1897
/ File Reference # 1003-852THA
Grigori Rasputin (b.1864-d.1916) circa 1914. Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia
/ File Reference # 1003-851THA
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
Karl Marx, c.1875. German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary
/ File Reference # 1003-847THA
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
Emiliano Zapata in 1914, was one of the military leaders of the Mexican Revolution and a symbol of peasant resistance in Mexico / File Reference # 1003-841THA
Emiliano Zapata in 1914, was one of the military leaders of the Mexican Revolution and a symbol of peasant resistance in Mexico / File Reference # 1003-840THA
Aeria view of Graumann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, circa 1952
/ File Reference # 1003-839THA
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
Cary Elwes, Rupert Everett, "Another Country" (1984) 20th Century Fox/ File Reference # 34082-566THA
Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, "Another Country" (1984) 20th Century Fox/ File Reference # 34082-565THA
Poster Art - "When the Clock Strikes" (1961) United Artists/ File Reference # 34082-562THA
Poster Art - "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980) United Artists Europa/ File Reference # 34082-540THA
Publicity photograph of Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager in the 1977 television specially-presented adaptation of Our Town. The TV adaptation aired on May 30, 1977
Hal Holbrook, in character as Mark Twain for his one man show, "Mark Twain Tonight" circa 1967
Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, "Intersection" (1994) Paramount Pictures / File Reference # 34082-529THA
Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, "Rising Sun" (1993) 20th Century Fox / File Reference # 34082-527THA
Billy Zane, Kate Winslet, "Titanic" (1997) Paramount Pictures / File Reference # 34082-462THA
Director Philip Kaufman, "Rising Sun" (1993) 20th Century Fox / File Reference # 34082-460THA
Scene Still, "Back to the Future Part III" (1990) Universal Pictures / File Reference # 34082-445THA
Rosie Perez, Jeff Bridges, "Fearless" (1993) Warner Bros. / File Reference # 34082-443THA