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Allan Reuss with guitar

Image

Allan Reuss playing guitar in a recording studio. Reuss is sitting on a stool and resting the guitar on his lap while looking forward and smiling.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Andy Russell and Eileen Barton

Image

Andy Russell and Eileen Barton standing in front of a stage curtain. Russell is holding a microphone and looking forward with a loving expression...

Date Published
1945
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Angela Greene in costume for "Night and Day"

Image

Publicity photo from above of Angela Greene in costume for her role in the film "Night and Day." Greene is wearing a bikini top and ruffled skirt...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster in "The Killers"

Image

Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster celebrated completion of their starring roles in Mark Hellinger's production of Hemingway's "The Killers" with a day at...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster in "The Killers"

Image

The atomic glow in the western sky isn't from Bikini. It's coming from Hollywood where Ava Gardner has been making love to Burt Lancaster in Mark...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ava Gardner in "The Killers"

Image

Ava Gardner, that long-limbed and lovely lass from the South who is getting her best acting opportunity to date in Mark Hellinger's production of "The...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Barry Ulanov

Image

Barry Ulanov standing next to an unidentified woman. Both are looking forward and smiling. Ulanov is wearing a light colored suit jacket and striped...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Beatrice Kay

Image

Headshot of Beatrice Kay in a 3/4 turn, looking forward with a neutral expression. Kay is wearing a black lace dress and large pendant necklace.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Beverly Simmons and Napoleon

Image

Publicity photo of child actor Beverly Simmons with a dog named Napoleon. Simmons is laying on the back of Napoleon, looking forward and smiling.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bill Stegmeyer and unidentified musicians

Image

Bill Stegmeyer sitting on a chair and playing clarinet with other unidentified studio musicians holding flutes. Stegmeyer is looking down at a music...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billy Butterfield playing trumpet in studio

Image

Billy Butterfield wearing a striped t-shirt and playing trumpet into a Capitol Records microphone hanging from the ceiling of a recording studio.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billy Butterfield reading music and holding trumpet

Image

Billy Butterfield looking down to read some music in a studio while holding his trumpet. Behind Butterfield are music stands and a Capitol Records...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Wilber and Sidney Bechet

Image

Bob Wilber playing clarinet and Sidney Bechet playing soprano saxophone. Both are holding up their instruments as they play.

Date Published
1946
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cass Daley publicity photo cleaning table

Image

Elbow grease is applied vigorously to an antique table by Cass Daley, Paramount's singing comedienne, soon to be seen in "Ladies' Man" co-starred with...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cass Daley publicity photo in kitchen

Image

Cass Daley, one of the co-stars of Paramount's "Ladies' Man" headed by Eddie Bracken, takes a crack at a new recipe in her San Fernando Valley home...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cass Daley publicity photo playing piano

Image

Cass Daley gets "that feeling in the moonlight" and sits down to accompany herself in the song of that name. She'll soon be seen in Paramount's...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cass Daley publicity photo playing trumpet

Image

Cass Daley gets "that feeling in the moonlight" and sits down to accompany herself in the song of that name. She'll soon be seen in Paramount's...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cass Daley publicity photo with gas lamp

Image

Cass Daley seems amazed that this old-fashioned kerosene lamp in her home actually will burn. You'll see her soon in Paramount's "Ladies' Man" co...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cass Daley publicity photo with gun collection

Image

Cass Daley reaches for one of her many old-time guns which decorate her San Fernando Valley home. She is co-starred in Paramount's "Ladies' Man" with...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Catherine McLeod and Philip Dorn in "I've Always Loved You"

Image

Catherine McLeod playing piano and looking behind to Philip Dorn sitting at a second piano in the film "I've Always Loved You."

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Catherine McLeod and Philip Dorn in "I've Always Loved You"

Image

Catherine McLeod playing piano and Philip Dorn conducting orchestra while looking at McLeod during a performance in the film "I've Always Loved You."

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Catherine McLeod in "I've Always Loved You"

Image

Catherine McLeod playing piano during an orchestra performance in the film "I've Always Loved You."

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Charles "Cootie" Williams

Image

Charles "Cootie" Williams playing trumpet on stage into a microphone in front of an unidentified musician. Williams is wearing a light colored suit...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Charles "Cootie" Williams

Image

Charles "Cootie" Williams standing behind a stand full of music and holding one arm out next to a Capitol Records microphone. Williams is looking to...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Curly Howard and Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

Image

Curly Howard sitting and playing saxophone while looking dubiously at Louis Jordan who is smiling and approaching Howard with two fingers pointed out...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (84)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (7)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (5)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (3)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (2)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (1)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (108)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (107)
  • Gelatin silver prints (107)
  • Group portraits (50)
  • Publicity photographs (47)
  • Snapshots (47)
  • Film stills (6)
  • Chromogenic print (1)
  • Color photographs (1)
  • (-) Portrait photographs (108)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (107)

Subjects

  • Actresses (29)
  • Jazz musicians (21)
  • Actors (18)
  • African American jazz musicians (15)
  • Pianists (9)
  • Women jazz singers (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (7)
  • Women singers (7)
  • City managers (6)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Conductors (Music) (5)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Clarinetists (4)
  • Composers (4)
  • Jazz singers (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (3)
  • Comedians (3)
  • Politicians (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • African American women dancers (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • African American women singers (2)
  • Automobiles (2)
  • Male singers (2)
  • Radio broadcasters (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Bathing suits (1)
  • Child actors (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Lyricists (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Municipal government (1)
  • Music critics (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Teenage boys, White (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women country musicians (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Washington (D.C.) (3)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (2)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (2)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (6)
  • Daley, Cass (6)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (5)
  • Dexter, Dave (4)
  • Shore, Dinah, 1917-1994 (4)
  • Taylor, Myra (4)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (3)
  • Christy, June, 1925-1990 (3)
  • Gardner, Ava, 1922-1990 (3)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (3)
  • McLeod, Catherine, 1921-1997 (3)
  • Rubenstein, Artur, 1887-1982 (3)
  • Scharf, Walter, 1910-2003 (3)
  • Truman, Bess Wallace (3)
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 (3)
  • Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008 (3)
  • Butterfield, Billy, 1917-1988 (2)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • Costello, Lou (2)
  • Dane, Patricia, 1919-1995 (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Dorn, Philip, 1905-1975 (2)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (2)
  • Duryea, Dan, 1907-1968 (2)
  • Garner, Erroll (2)
  • Hammond, John, 1910-1987 (2)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (2)
  • Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994 (2)
  • Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (2)
  • Norman, Gene (2)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (2)
  • Simmons, Beverly, 1938- (2)
  • Stafford, Jo (2)
  • Starr, Kay (2)
  • Tally, Jo Ann (2)
  • Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953 (2)
  • Williams, Cootie (2)
  • Abravanel, Maurice, 1903-1993 (1)
  • Alphin, Patricia, 1926- (1)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Babb, Dorothy, 1927-1998 (1)
  • Barker, Jess (1)
  • Barton, Eileen (1)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990 (1)
  • Bluford, Lucile H. (1)
  • Blyth, Ann, 1928- (1)
  • Bunn, Jimmy (1)
  • Burke, Sonny, 1914-1980 (1)
  • Burnette, Smiley, 1911-1967 (1)
  • Clayton, Patricia (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (1)
  • Coy, Johnny (1)
  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (1)
  • De Carlo, Yvonne (1)
  • Durgom, George (1)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (1)
  • Grable, Betty, 1916-1973 (1)
  • Greene, Angela, 1920-1978 (1)
  • Halsey, William F. (William Frederick), 1882-1959 (1)
  • Hart, Maurice, 1909-1978 (1)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (1)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (1)
  • Howard, Curly Joe, 1910-1993 (1)
  • James, Harry, 1916-1983 (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (1)
  • Kay, Beatrice (1)
  • Kyser, Kay (1)
  • Lamare, Nappy (1)
  • Lyons, Jimmy (1)
  • McCormick, Hugh (Ventriloquist) (1)
  • McHargue, Rosy, 1902-1999 (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Morris, Dorothy, 1922-2011 (1)
  • Morse, Ella Mae (1)
  • Norell, Della (1)
  • O'Brien, Edmond, 1915-1985 (1)
  • Otis, Hal (1)
  • Parker, Eleanor, 1922-2013 (1)
  • Rando, Doc (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Reuss, Allan (1)
  • Riggs, Tommy (1)
  • Romay, Lina (1)
  • Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951 (1)
  • Rushton, Joe (1)
  • Ryan, Peggy, 1924-2004 (1)
  • San Juan, Olga, 1927-2009 (1)
  • Seaman, Lila (1)
  • Shaffer, Lloyd (1)
  • Shawlee, Joan (1)
  • Simms, Ginny (1)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Small, Mary (Vocalist) (1)
  • Stegmeyer, Bill, 1916-1968 (1)
  • Sullivan, Joe, 1906-1971 (1)
  • Ulanov, Barry (1)
  • Vickers, Martha, 1925-1971 (1)
  • Vincent, June (1)
  • Walker, Helen, 1921-1968 (1)
  • Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968 (1)
  • Warren, Harry, 1893-1981 (1)
  • Whiting, Margaret (1)
  • Wilber, Bob (1)
  • Willard, Bill (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (5)
  • 1950 (4)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1949 (2)
  • 1947 (1)
  • (-) 1946 (108)

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