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Armed Forces Radio Service featuring comedians

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo featuring Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, and Jack Benny wearing suits and making facial expressions during a comedy...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Armed Forces Radio Service featuring entertainers

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo featuring Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Edgar Bergen rehearsing for a show. All are looking at papers while...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Armed Forces Radio Service group photo

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo of Command Performance U.S.A. stage performance. Dozens of unidentified musicians in uniform and wearing suits...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Armed Forces Radio Service group photo

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo featuring (left to right) an unidentified man, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Colonna, an unidentified woman, Frank...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on "Can You Tie That"

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Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, an unidentified man (standing in the background), and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones and water pitchers for a...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on "Can You Tie That"

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Bing Crosby and Bob Hope seated at tables with microphones and water pitchers for a recording of "Can You Tie That," KLAC radio program hosted by Al...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bing Crosby, Dave Dexter, Ella Logan, Al Jarvis, and Bob Hope

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Bing Crosby, Dave Dexter, Al Jarvis, and Bob Hope standing left to right behind Ella Logan. Logan is sitting at a table with a KLAC microphone. Crosby...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Hope and two unidentified men

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Bob Hope speaking with two unidentified men. Hope is sitting with one leg up on a chair, wearing a patterned suit.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, June Christy, and Phil Harris

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Dave Dexter, June Christy, an unidentified man, and Phil Harris photographed from the side in a recording studio. All are smiling and looking forward...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris

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Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris sitting at a table with microphones. Dexter is looking to the side and laughing. Wynn is in the center and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris

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Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris joking around. Dexter is sitting behind a table and laughing at Wynn who is on the table, laying on his side...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and Al Jarvis

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Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and an unidentified man standing behind an unidentified women and Al Jarvis. Dexter is wearing a light colored suit and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and Al Jarvis

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Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and an unidentified man standing behind an unidentified women and Al Jarvis. Dexter is wearing a light colored suit and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dean Martin and Nat King Cole

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Dean Martin and Nat King Cole standing shoulder to shoulder and looking to the side. Martin is laughing with his hand extended out. Both are wearing...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Eddie Greene

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Signed portrait of Eddie Greene in military uniform smoking a cigarette.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Freddy Martin and Cass Daley

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Cass Daley and Freddy Martin holding papers and smiling while standing next to a microphone during a radio broadcast. Unidentified musicians are...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jackie Gleason

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Signed portrait of Jackie Gleason.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

June Christy, Jack McVea, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis on air for "Can You Tie That"

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June Christy, Jack McVea, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones while on air for "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio program hosted...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Milton Berle performing in radio studio

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Milton Berle looking down at microphones with wide-open eyes in a radio studio while holding a book. Berle is wearing a dark suit, bowtie, and fedora.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis on "Can You Tie That"

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Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones, pitchers of water, and paper during a recording of "Can You...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis on "Can You Tie That"

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Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones for "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio program hosted by Jarvis...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis on "Can You Tie That"

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Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, an unidentified (standing in background), and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones for "Can You Tie...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Phil Harris, Dave Dexter, and June Christy in studio for "Can You Tie That"

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An unidentified man wearing a pinstripe suit, Phil Harris, wearing a white shirt and leaning forward, Dave Dexter, June Christy, and an unidentified...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Red Skelton

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Red Skelton sitting against a wall, tearing papers with his hands, and looking to the side with an angry expression. Skelton is wearing a light...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Red Skelton

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Publicity photograph of Red Skelton behind an NBC microphone, looking forward and smiling. Skelton is wearing a black suit.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (24)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (26)
  • Gelatin silver prints (26)
  • Portrait photographs (26)
  • Group portraits (21)
  • Snapshots (21)
  • Publicity photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (24)

Subjects

  • Actors (10)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (8)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Radio programs (3)
  • Radio talk show hosts (3)
  • Singers (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • Autographs (2)
  • Male singers (2)
  • African American comedians (1)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • African American soldiers (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Television actors and actresses (1)
  • (-) Comedians (26)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (10)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (8)
  • Skelton, Red, 1913-1997 (5)
  • Berle, Milton (4)
  • Harris, Phil, 1904-1995 (4)
  • Hope, Bob, 1903-2003 (4)
  • Christy, June, 1925-1990 (3)
  • Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977 (3)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (3)
  • Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980 (2)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986 (2)
  • Allen, Fred, 1896-1955 (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Bergen, Edgar, 1903-1978 (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986 (1)
  • Daley, Cass (1)
  • Garland, Judy (1)
  • Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987 (1)
  • Greene, Eddie (1)
  • Logan, Ella, 1913-1969 (1)
  • Martin, Dean, 1917-1995 (1)
  • Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 (1)
  • McVea, Jack (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (20)
  • 1950 (6)
  • (-) 1941 (26)

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