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Jimmy Stewart on the set of 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

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‘It’s a Wonderful Life’: Rare Photos From the Set of a Holiday Classic

Audience members sport 3-D glasses during the first screening of "Bwana Devil," the first full-length, color 3-D movie, November 26, 1952, at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood.

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LIFE at the Movies: When 3-D Was New

Then-unknown actress Marilyn Monroe with Clifton Webb and Laurette Luez on the set of a 1948 comedy, "Sitting Pretty."

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Unpublished: Portraits of Marilyn as a Young Actress, 1948

On Her Majesty's Secret Service director Peter R. Hunt oversees a test love scene between John Richardson and an actress, moving her leg just so.

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Being 007: LIFE Behind the Scenes at James Bond Auditions

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