Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman Fairbanks, Sr., (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939), an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty with Fairbanks constantly referred to as "The King of Hollywood".
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997). Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve. Pictured here in uniform circa 1960.
A group photo on steps of Langley Research Building on 11/05/1928. Front row, left to right: E.A. Meyers, Elton Miller, Amelia Earhart, Henry Reid, and Lt. Col. Jacob W.S. Wuest. Back row, left to right: Carlton Kemper, Raymond Sharp, Thomas Carroll, (unknown person behind A.E.), and Fred Weick.
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross which she was awarded as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety Nines, a women's pilots' organization.
Plenty of basehits in these bats. A million dollar baseball flesh is represented in these sluggers of two All-Star Teams which met in the 1937 game at Griffith Stadium. Left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dicker, Joe DiMaggio, Charley Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg. Originally photographed in Washington D.C., July 7, 1937.
George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948), also known as "Babe", "The Bambino", "The Sultan of Swat", "The Colossus of Clout", "The King of Crash", "The Home Run King" , or simply "The Big Guy", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935.
John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the “Galveston Giant”, an American boxer, the best heavyweight of his generation and the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915). In a documentary about his life, Ken Burns notes, "For more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth."
Charles Lindbergh, wearing helmet with goggles up, in the open cockpit of airplane at Lambert Field, St. Louis, Missouri. Originally photographed in 1923.
Charles Lindbergh working on the engine of "The Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Slim," "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, an Army reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.
Charles Lindbergh, who was the first person to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean by aircraft. His airplane was named "The Spirit of St. Louis". He is pictured here looking over his famous airplane.
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977), an English comedian actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. He was famous also for his great sense of humor and slapstick comedy skills.
Charlie Chaplin in costume as The Tramp, 1915. Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977), an English comedian actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. He was famous also for his great sense of humor and slapstick comedy skills.
Silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, pioneers of the motion picture industry. While they were married, they were considered the most powerful couple in movies and were known as "Hollywood Royalty". Date unknown.
Laurence Harvey (wet) and Frank Sinatra standing on a small pier during filming of "The Manchurian Candidate". Harvey & Sinatra doing a scene in Central Park, Harvey just walked off the pier. Originally photographed in 1962.
Famed actress Greta Garbo with Finnish actor Maurice Stiller on board the "S/S Drottningholm" en route to the United States. Originally photographed August 17, 1925.
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity. In consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute named Pickford 24th among the greatest female stars of all time.
Stone walls and chains do not make a prison -- for Houdini. Houdini followed his performance in "The master mystery" with the "Grim game," the first of two films that he made for Famous Players. That company had been founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor and merged in 1916, with Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play company. Soon Famous Players would merge with the distribution company Paramount Pictures Corporation. As the film industry expanded Houdini attempted to adapt his daring escapes to the screen.
Marilyn Monroe appearing with the USO, posing for cameras after a performance at the 3rd U.S. Infantry Division area during the Korean War, February 17, 1954.
Bob Hope in Korea. Depicts Bob Hope climbing out of a T-33 jet plane, which flew him from Taegu to Kimpo airfield on an entertainment tour in Korea, 1950. By the smile on the pilot's face, Hope has evidently made some witty remark about the ride.
D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio in 1919. Lawyers Albert Banzhaf (left) and Dennis F. O'Brien (right) stand in the background.
Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan, who was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s.
New York Yankee's Lou Gehrig scores head first in 4th inning as Joe Harris' throw gets away from catcher Hank Severeid of the Washington Senators. Umpier is Nallin. Yanks beat Senators 3-2. Originally photographed August 16, 1925.
Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934), well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who, with their gang, travelled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known nationwide. They captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.
Jesse James in 1864. Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.
Jesse James circa 1882. Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.
John Herbert Dillinger Jr. (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Midwest during the early 1930s. The exploits of Dillinger and his gang, along with those of other criminals of the Great Depression such as Bonnie and Clyde and Ma Barker, dominated the attention of the American press and its readers during what is sometimes referred to as the public enemy era (1931–1935), a period which led to the development of the modern, more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Pictured here in mugshot, front view.
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Pictured here in mugshot, side view.
Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents.
Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and Charles Lindbergh, who came to pay Orville a personal call at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Originally photographed June 22, 1927.
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895), a French chemist and microbiologist. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of microbiology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch.
Thomas Alva Edison, an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Originally photographed in 1922.
George Washington Carver, best known for his botanical research at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, revolutionizing southern agriculture after the Civil War. One of these methods included research that made peanut farming profitable. His brilliance ran counter to the African-American stereotype of the day; that whites were intellecutally superior to blacks. Through his work, he educated many freed slaved to be self-sufficient.
Orville and Wilbur Wright of Dayton, Ohio, who are credited with producing the first heavier-than-air flying machine; the forerunner of modern aircraft.
Thomas Edison, John Burroughs, and Henry Ford, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, at Edison's home in Ft. Myers, Florida. Photographed March 16, 1914.
Margaret Tobin Brown (July 18, 1867 - October 26, 1932), more widely known as Maggie Brown or Molly Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist and activist who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She became known after her death as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, although she was never called Molly during her life.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches.
Diplomas being conferred on War College graduates in Washington, D.C. Graduation day at the Army War College at Fort Humphrey's. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson is pictured presenting a diploma to Maj. Theodore L. Futch, one of hundred U.S. Army Officers to graduate with this year's class. On the left is Maj. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commandant of the War College, 6/22/38.
Frederick Douglass, who was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. In 1872, Douglass became the very first African-American nominated as a Vice Presidential candidate in the U.S., running on the Equal Rights Party ticket with Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States.
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