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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

Artie Auerbach as Mr. Kitzel

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Mr. Kitzel (Artie Auerbach, featured comedian of the Jack Benny Show) seems to have charmed an extra long hot dog into performing for his customers...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Hope onstage

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Bob Hope onstage, possibly during a rehearsal for a radio broadcast. Hope is raising both arms in the air to indicate distance. Hope is wearing a dark...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Connie Haines and Lou Costello

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Connie Haines wearing a bathing suit and leaning back on a diving board. Haines is turning to the side and smiling. Comedian Lou Costello is operating...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Anita Ellis, Al Jarvis, Red Skelton, and Rod O'Connor on broadcast of "Can You Tie That"

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Dave Dexter, Anita Ellis, Al Jarvis, Red Skelton, and Rod O'Connor seated at tables with microphones for a broadcast of "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Buddy Cole, Al Jarvis, Jerry Colonna, and Anne McKeon, on "Can You Tie That"

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Dave Dexter, Buddy Cole, Al Jarvis, Jerry Colonna, and Anne McKeon, sitting at tables with microphones while recording a broadcast of "Can You Tie...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Ed Flynn, Al Jarvis, Eugene Howard, and Skinnay Ennis

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Dave Dexter, Ed Flynn, Al Jarvis,and Skinnay Ennis looking at Eugene Howard with shocked expressions as Howard reads from papers into a KLAC...

Date Published
1945
1950
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

Edgar Bergen, Andy Russell, and Ingrid Bergman

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Edgar Bergen, Andy Russell, and Ingrid Bergman looking over papers. Russell is standing in the center, looking down while smiling. Bergen and Bergman...

Date Published
1945
1950
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

Jerry Colonna and Martha Tilton

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Jerry Colonna and Martha Tilton standing behind an ABC microphone and in front of a stage curtain. Colonna is looking at Tilton while smiling and...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jerry Colonna, Al Jarvis, and Bob Hope

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Jerry Colonna, Al Jarvis, and Bob Hope standing shoulder to shoulder against a wall. Jarvis is wearing a comical hat and bowtie. Colonna and Hope both...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Olga San Juan

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Olga San Juan looking forward while holding an AFRS microphone stand. Olga is smiling with a surprised facial expression, wearing a white blouse with...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, Al Jarvis, and Dave Dexter talking during broadcast recording of "Can You Tie That"

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Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, and Dave Dexter laughing while seated at tables with microphones in a tile studio during broadcast recording of "Can...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, and Dave Dexter talking during broadcast recording of "Can You Tie That"

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Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, and Dave Dexter seated at tables with microphones and talking during a broadcast recording of "Can You Tie That" KLAC...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection
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  • 1950
  • Comedians

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (16)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (18)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (18)
  • Gelatin silver prints (18)
  • Portrait photographs (16)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Snapshots (13)
  • Publicity photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (16)

Subjects

  • Actors (6)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (5)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Actresses (3)
  • Singers (3)
  • Autographs (2)
  • Women jazz singers (2)
  • African American comedians (1)
  • African American soldiers (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Radio programs (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Television actors and actresses (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Comedians (18)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (4)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (5)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (5)
  • Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986 (4)
  • Bergen, Edgar, 1903-1978 (2)
  • Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980 (2)
  • Hayes, Peter Lind, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (2)
  • Hope, Bob, 1903-2003 (2)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Allen, Fred, 1896-1955 (1)
  • Auerbach, Artie, 1903-1957 (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982 (1)
  • Cole, Buddy (1)
  • Costello, Lou (1)
  • Ellis, Anita, 1920- (1)
  • Ennis, Skinnay (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Garland, Judy (1)
  • Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987 (1)
  • Greene, Eddie (1)
  • Haines, Connie, 1921-2008 (1)
  • Howard, Eugene (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • O'Connor, Rod (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • San Juan, Olga, 1927-2009 (1)
  • Skelton, Red, 1913-1997 (1)
  • Tilton, Martha (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (12)
  • 1941 (6)
  • (-) 1950 (18)

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