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Scans	Name	Description	Information
	F. Murray Abraham	SP 5"x7"	Stage and screen actor, best known for his portrayal of Ghandi, in the film of the same name.
	Morey Amsterdam	SP 8"x10"	Best known as Buddy Sorrell on the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show. Amsterdam was born in 1931, and has appeared in vaudeville, radio, television and movies, and his brand of schmaltzy humor gained him the nickname, "The Human Joke Machine." He was also a songwriter and collaborated on the 1940s hit, "Rum and Coca-Cola." He was a guest on many variety and game shows, as well as a panelist on The Match Game. He died in 1996.
	David Attenborough	Index Card 3"x5"	Sir David Attenborough began his distinguished broadcasting career more than 50 years ago, when he joined the BBC. Two years later he moderated the popular Zoo Quest, which took him to far parts of the globe. He has also hosted TV programs dealing with history, nature, politics and religion. During his years with the BBC he was among those responsible for introducing color TV into England. He was knighted in 1985.
	Lauren Bacall	Index Card 3"x5"	Born Betty Joan Perske in New York City in 1924. Married to Humphrey Bogart until his death in 1957. Started her film career in the 1940s as a fashion model, and appeared in movies such as To Have and Have Not (1944), Key Largo (1948), How to Marry a Millionaire with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (1953), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Manderlay (2004). She has also appeared in numerous TV shows and on the Broadway stage.
	Brigitte Bardot	Index Card 3"x5"	Born in 1934, Bardot gained notoriety in the 1950s as a film actress working for the director Roger Vadim. She was known for her young, kittenish roles, perfectly suited to the many French films in which she appeared.
	Bruce Bennett	SP 5"x8"	Bruce Bennett was born Herman Brix in 1906. A start athlete, he was a shot-putter in the Olympics of 1928. He was one of the many actors who portrayed Tarzan in films. He eventually retired from films to go into business as a sales manager. His films include College Humor (1933), The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938), Before I Hang (1940), Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford (1945) and Love Me Tender (1956). Bennett died in February, 2007.
	Harry Carey Jr.	SP 5"x8"	The son of Western great Harry Carey, Harry Carey Jr. has been an actor most of his life. After serving in the South Pacific in WWII, he started working in feature Westerns. His films include She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Niagara, with Marilyn Monroe (1953), Mister Roberts with James Cagney (1955), and Dirty Dingus Magee (1970). He has appeared more recently in The Exorcist III, as Father Kanavan (1990), and Last Stand at Saber River (1997). He is remembered by many Baby Boomers from his role in The Mickey Mouse Club serial "Spin and Marty."
	Kitty Carlisle Hart	Index Card 3"x5"	Kitty Carlisle (1910-2007), singer, actress and patron of the arts, was born in New Orleans in 1910. She appeared in many films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including A Night at the Opera, with the Marx Brothers. She married famed New York playwright Moss Hart in 1946. She is best known for her many years as a panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth.
	Mary Carlisle	SP 8"x10"	American actress, born in Boston in 1912. Appeared in a number of Hollywood "B" movies, and a few major ones, including Grand Hotel (1932), College Humor (1933), and Palooka (1934). Her last film was made in 1943.
	Leslie Caron	Index Card 3"x5"	Leslie Caron, born in France in 1931, is best known in America for her performances in the films American in Paris, with Gene Kelly, Lili, made in 1953, and Gigi, with Maurice Chevalier. She continues to act today.
	Jack Carter	Printed Card 4"x6"	Jack Carter started his TV career hosting the Texaco Star Theater in 1948. Known as a comedian, but has also appeared in dramatic roles. He has appeared in numerous television shows including CSI, Just Shoot Me, The Hallmark Hall of Fame, The Odd Couple, The Merv Griffin Show, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Hollywood Palace and Seinfeld.
	Anderson Cooper	SP 8"x10"	Anderson Cooper comes with a pedigree. His mother is socialite and designer Gloria Vanderbilt and he is a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York Central Railroad and Grand Central Station fame. Cooper has his own news spot on CNN.
	Merce Cunningham	Index Card 3"x5"	One of America's most celebrated dancers, Cunningham was born in Washington state in 1919. A recognized talent early on, he appeared with many of the avant garde of his day, including Martha Graham. A dancer, teacher and mentor through the 1930s into the 1950s, he established the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and he still continues to choreograph to this day. He was also on the development team for the dance software "Danceforms," which allows the user to choreograph on a computer.
	Dame Judi Dench	Index Card 3"x5"	British actress, born in Yorkshire in 1934. Her films include A Room with a View (1985), Henry V (1989), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Pride & Prejudice (2005).
	Phyllis Diller	Index Card 3"x5"	Stand-up comedian known for her distinctive laugh, she received her first national exposure in 1950 as a contestant on "You Bet Your Life," hosted by Groucho Marx. Her comedy had to do with the mundane matters of an everyday housewife, and he has appeared in numerous movies and TV specials with people such as Dean Martin and Bob Hope. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993.
	Deanna Durbin	TNS	Born Edna Mae Durbin in 1921, she became a well-known figure on the screen at a young age. By the time she was 14, she was the highest paid female star in the world. She was groomed as the "classy" counterpart to Judy Garland, another major singing star of the era. Durbin made a number of films including Three Smart Girls (1936), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943) and Up in Central Park (1948). At the height of her career she turned her back on Hollywood and retired into a life of seclusion as Mrs. Charles David, whom she married in 1950.
	Joe Eszterhas	SP 5"x8"	Hungarian-born writer for Hollywood films, born in 1944. Projects include Flashdance (1983), Basic Instinct (1992), and Showgirls (1995).
	Harvey Fierstein	Index Card 3"x5"	American actor, born in New York in 1954. Films include Torch Song Trilogy (1988), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Mulan (1998) (voice).
	Joan Fontaine	Index Card 3"x5"	Born Joan de Havilland in Tokyo in 1917, she was a major Hollywood star in the 1930s and 1940s, and is still active today, appearing on stage and on lecturing tours. She was half of a well-publicized rivalry wit her sister, Olivia de Havilland. She appeared in the films A Damsel in Distress, as Fred Astaire's dancing partner (1937), The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosiland Russell (1939), Rebecca, with Cary Grant (1940) and Jane Eyre, with Orson Welles (1944). Her most recent appearance was as Queen Ludmilla in Good King Wenceslas, made for TV (1994).
	Art Gilmore	SP 5"x7"	Radio and television announcer, heard in the 1930s on Amos & Andy and Stars Over Hollywood. Announcer on The George Gobel Show, The Red Skelton Show, narrator on Highway Patrol, and made appearances on Dragnet! and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. His was the voice of Franklin Roosevelt in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) starring James Cagney, and he is past president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
	Monte Hale	SP 5"x8"	Monte Hale was one of a number of popular Western stars in the 1940s and 1950s, appearing in serials shown in movie theaters on Saturday mornings that thrilled kids across the country. He was born in 1919 in Oklahoma. He played in early vaudeville shows in Texas and eventually went to work for Republic Pictures, the studio famous for churning out "B" Westerns. Later in life he toured in shows and rodeos and still makes appearances at Western film conventions. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004.
	Mary Ann Jackson	Index Card 3"x5"	Jackson was seen in some of the earliest Our Gang one-reeler comedies, from 1928 to 1931, made for the Hal Roach Studios. She is still remembered as the tomboy with the freckles and the Buster Brown haircut, and her many snappy comebacks to the other members of the Gang. By the mid 1930s, still a young girl, she tired of Hollywood, got married and settled into a routine life. She made only a few appearances as an adult, most notably in Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town, in 1951, and an episode of The Andy Griffith Show. Jackson died in 2003.
	Dorothy Janis	SP 5"x7"	Dorothy Janis (born 1910) is one of the few remaining silent film actresses. Born in Dallas, she was visiting her cousin who was working for Fox Studios in 1927. Her beauty attracted the attention of film bosses and she was asked to do a screen test. She went on to make five films, including The Pagan (1929) with Ramon Novarro. She retired from films in 1930 and married bandleader Wayne King in 1932. They remained married until he died in 1985. This photo was signed in 2009.
	Dickie Jones	SP 5"x8"	Dickie Jones was an early actor in "B" Westerns, and appeared in a number of major motion pictures. Born in 1927 in Texas, he was performing locally in rodeos and at fairs, and was known for his roping and lariat tricks. His parents took him to Hollywood, where he got small parts in low-budget movies. In 1940, however, he was chosen as the voice of Pinnochio, in Disney's film of the same name. After serving during WWII, he found steady work as Dick West, the sidekick in the TV series Range Rider, in the early 1950s. He was given his own series, Buffalo Bill Jr., which ran for over 4o episodes. Jones eventually left acting for the business world. His films include Kid Millions (1934) Our Gang Follies of 1936 (1935) Stella Dallas (1937) The Frontiersmen (1938) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Destry Rides Again (1939) and Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965).
	John Kerr	Index Card 3"x5"	Remembered best as Lt. Joseph Cable in the 1958 film South Pacific, with Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr had a wide range of roles throughout his career in films such as Tea and Sympathy, co-starring Deborah Kerr, and The Pit and the Pendulum, 1961. He has appeared on numerous TV shows such as the Hallmark Hall of Fame, Alcoa Theater, and Playhouse 90. He has retired from acting.
	Sheila Kuehl	SP 5"x7"	Sheila Kuehl is a former child actress, best known for her role as Zelda in the 1950s TV series Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman. A Harvard Law School graduate, Kuehl most recently served as a Democratic member of the California State Senate, representing the 23rd district in Los Angeles County and parts of southern Ventura County. A former member of the California State Assembly, she was elected to the Senate in 2000 and served until December 2008.
	Carla Laemmle	SP 5"x8"	Niece of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle, she appeared in a dozen movies including the original "Phantom of the Opera" with Lon Chaney, the original "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi, and "The King of Jazz" with Paul Whiteman. During the next two decades she appeared in a number of movies and on the stage. She left films to devote her time to the love of her life, director Raymond Cannon. They traveled and wrote two books together, "How to Fish the Pacific Coast," and "The Sea of Cortez." He died in the 1970s. Amazingly, she has recently narrated "The Road to Dracula," a documentary on DVD. At the time she signed this photo in 2003, she was 94 years old. She recently appeared in Vampire Hunters Club, and had not appeared on the screen since 1938.
	Charles Lane	SP 5"x8"	Lane appeared in every movie ever made - or so it seems. His long career started in the 1920s and his face was seen in practically every major film of the 1930s and 1940s. He also guested on scores of TV shows including I Love Lucy and Petticoat Junction. He can also be seen in the Jimmy Stewart tear-jerker "It's a Wonderful Life." Lane died in July, 2007 at the age of 102.
	Janet Leigh	SP 5"x7"	American actress born in California in 1927. Former wife of actor Tony Curtis, and mother of Jamie Leigh Curtis. Best known for her role in the Hitchcock thriller Psycho (1960). Other films include Houdini (1953), opposite Tony Curtis, Little Women (1949), and Boardwalk (1979).
	Jay Leno	SP 4"x6"	Host of TV's The Tonight Show, a spot he took over from Johnny Carson. Born in 1950 in New Rochelle, New York. His popular show has been host to most major motion picture and television stars, and has been the springboard for up-and-coming talent. Leno announced his plans to retire from The Tonight Show when his contract expires in 2009.
	Joan Leslie	SP 8"x10"	Born in Detroit, Joan Leslie began her acting and signing career as a child performer. She appeared in the Greta Garbo film Camille in 1936, and went on to ingenue roles in the 1940s. Her movies include Susan and God, 1940, Sargeant York, 1941, Yankee Doodle Dandy, opposite James Cagney, 1942, and she has made a number of TV appearances.
	David Letterman	SP 8"x10"	Host of the long-running Late Nite With David Letterman on CBS.
	Shirley MacLaine	Index Card 3"x5"	One of Hollywood's most popular stars, Shirley MacLaine has appeared in more than 30 films, including Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Apartment (1960), Sweet Charity (1969), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Steel Magnolias (1989), plus numerous TV and stage appearances.
	Natalia Makarova	SP 5"x8"	Russian ballet dancer, born in 1940 in Leningrad. Attended the Choreographic School and joined the Kirov Ballet in 1959. Known internationally for her superb technique in such roles as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. She appeared in the Broadway musical On Your Toes for which she won a Tony Award in 1983.
	Steve Martin	Index Card 3"x5"	American comedian working in films and television. Born in 1945 in Texas. Known for his comedy work on Saturday Night Live. Films include The Muppet Movie (1979), Pennies from Heaven (1981), �Three Amigos! (1986), and Shopgirl (2005).
	Jesse Matthews	SP 4"x6"	Jesse Matthews (1907-1981) was known as London's "Dancing Divinity." She was one of England's biggest stars in the 1920s and 1930s, enjoying success in films, on radio and on the musical stage. Among the films in which she starred were This England (1923), Evergreen (1934), Forever and a Day (1943) and Edward & Mrs. Simpson" (1978). This is an informal photo signed by Matthews in the late 1930s.
	Mary Tyler Moore	SP 8"x10"	American actress known primarily for her role of Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and later in her own series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She has also appeared in a number of dramatic films, including Ordinary People (1980), with Timothy Hutton and Donald Sutherland.
	Leslie Neilsen	SP 5"x7"	Known to older fans as Commander John Adams in the sci fi flick Forbidden Planet (1956), Neilsen has gone on to star in countless roles, and has gained a following for his appearances in comedies such as Airplane! (1980), and the Naked Gun series.
	Anita Page	SP 8"x10"	Anita Page was born Anita Pomares in 1910. She started as an ingenue, appearing in "flapper" movies of the 1920s, including three with co-star Joan Crawford. She went on to appear in The Broadway Melody of 1929, one of the first all-singing all-talking movies, considered an important film by most film historians. At the height of her career she was receiving 10,000 fan letters a week. She was married twice, first to Hollywood composer Nacio Herb Brown, and later to Herschel House, a prominent businessman. Page retired to Coronado, California in the mid 1930s and did not appear in movies again until 2000, when she made Witchcraft XI, a span between films of 65 years.
	Patti Page	SP 8"x10"	Born in 1927. Began her singing career at KTUL Radio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sang with the Benny Goodman orchestra, and then recorded one of her biggest hits, The Tennessee Waltz, in 1951. She has appeared in films, and on radio and television. Still singing, she also runs her own company, selling country-style foods and syrups through mail order and on the Internet.
	Baby Peggy	SP 5"x8"	Margaret Montgomery was born in 1918 to an acting family. She went to work for Century Studios while still a toddler, and would go on to appear in 150 short features and 9 full-length features during the height of her career. By the age of 8 she was essentially finished in movies. By the time she was an adult it was discovered that the fortune she earned as a child star was practically gone, allegedly spent by her parents. A similar fate awaited her only close competition in films, child actor Jackie Coogan. As an adult she spent many years in near poverty, until she found a new career as a writer, under the name Diana Serra Cary. She has written "Hollywood Posse," "Hollywood's Children," and "Whatever Happened to Baby Peggy?" She was married to Gordon Ayres from 1938 to 1948, and married Bob Cary in 1954. Her films include Her Circus Man (1921), The Darling of New York (1923), Jack and the Beanstalk (1924), and Having A Wonderful Time (1938).
	Christopher Plummer	Index Card 3"x5"	Erudite actor, born in 1929 in Canada, known for his roles in films such as The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Thorn Birds (1983), mini TV Series, and A Beautiful Mind (2000).
	Luise Rainer	SP 5"x7"	Luise Rainer, born in Germany in 1910, was known as the Viennese Teardrop because of her emotion-evoking performances. She became a popular stage actress before being discovered by Hollywood, where she appeared in some of the major motion pictures of the era. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Rainer in the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936) opposite William Powell and won the Academy Award for her performance. She then made The Good Earth (1937), adapted from the Pearl S. Buck novel about daily life in the farmlands of China. She was given her second Academy Award, the first actor to ever win back-to-back Oscars. The same year, she married writer Clifford Odets. They were divorced three years later. Her career eventually floundered and she became disenamored with the Hollywood system. She appeared on Broadway and traveled during WWII selling war bonds. Rainer found happiness in a long marriage to the publisher Robert Knittel, whom she married in 1945. The couple had a daughter and made their home in Switzerland as Rainer essentially left acting behind. Her retirement from the movies lasted for 53 years, until her come-back in The Gambler (1997).
	Tony Randall	Index Card 3"x5"	A star in television, on radio and in movies, Tony Randall's career spanned over five decades. Films include Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), Pillow Talk with Rock Hudson and Doris Day(1959), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). Best known for his portrayal of Felix Unger in TVs The Odd Couple, opposite Jack Klugman. He has also appeared on TV in "Mr. Peepers" (1952), and as a guest on What's My Line?, Password, and as a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Randall died in 2004.
	Debbie Reynolds	Signed Card 4"x4"	Gained fame in the classic musical Signing In the Rain (1952) with Gene Kelly. Born in 1932, Reynolds has appeared in scores of movies including The Tender Trap (1955), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), The Singing Nun (1966) and has appeared on TV What's My Line?, Laugh-In, The Love Boat, Will & Grace, and as a guest on The Merv Griffin Show, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, and Craig Furgeson's Late Show. She lost her husband, singer Eddie Fisher, father of Star Wars Carrie Fisher, to Elizabeth Taylor, in a much-publicized divorce case. She has recently appeared in Las Vegas.
	Rose Marie	Index Card 3"x5"	Best known for her role as Sally on the Dick Van Dyke Show, she was billed originally as Baby Rose Marie, a child star in the early 1930s, playing opposite such famous people as W.C. Fields. She appeared on radio in the 1920s, and as a young adult became a nightclub performer. She has also been seen on The Doris Day Show, and as a guest on many TV series and game shows.
	Ann Rutherford	SP 8"x10"	One of the few surviving actors from the epic film Gone With the Wind, Ann Rutherford is also known to fans for her roles in the Andy Hardy series in the late 1930s, opposite co-star Mickey Rooney. Other films include The Fighting Marines (1935), A Christmas Carol (1938), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, with Danny Kaye (1947), and Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976).
	Neil Simon	SP 3"x5"	American writer and producer. Born in 1927. Best known for his screenplay for The Odd Couple (1968), starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Also known for Barefoot in the Park (1967), Sweet Charity (1969), and Plaza Suite (1971).
	Ann Sothern	Index Card 3"x5"	Popular American actress (1909-2001). Known to older fans for her role in the Maisie film series in the late 1930s, and her two television series, "Private Secretary" (1953), and "The Ann Sothern Show" (1958). Films include The Show of Shows (1929), Panama Hattie (1942), Nancy Goes to Rio (1950), and the TV series My Mother the Car (1965). Her last role was in the film The Whales of August (1987).
	Dick van Dyke	Index Card 3"x5"	Best known for his role as Rob Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and in the films Mary Poppins (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and for his roles on the TV series Jake and the Fatman, Diagnosis Murder, and Becker.
	Lyle Waggoner	Index Card 3"x5"	American actor, born in 1935. Known to fans for his work on The Carol Burnett Show, with co-stars Harvey Korman, Vickie Lawrence and Tim Conway. Was elected the mayor of Encino, California in 1975.
	Lina Wertmuller	SP 4"x6"	Born in Rome, she was the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Direction. Her films include Questa volta parliamo di uomini (1965), Which Way Is Up? (1977), and Swept Away (2002).
	Shelley Winters	SP 5"x8"	American actress (1920-2006), known for her roles as long-suffering women in films such as A Place in the Sun (1951), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Wild in the Streets (1968), and later in such hits as The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Pete's Dragon (1977), and her work on the TV series Roseanne.
	Jane Wyman	Index Card 3"x5"	Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Fulks in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1914. She has had a long successful career in films, theater and TV, appearing in the early 1930s as a chorus girl, and working her way into legitimate roles. She gained attention as the long-suffering girlfriend of Ray Milland's alcoholic character in The Lost Weekend (1945). She was nominated for an Academy Award for her work in The Yearling (1946) and won for her performance in Johnny Belinda (1948). She married Ronald Reagan in 1940 and they divorced in 1948. She has appeared in The Kid from Spain (1932), Brother Rat (1938), Stage Fright (1950), Pollyanna (1960), and as Angela Channing in the "Falcon Crest" TV series (1981).