EVB2924393: Louis B. Mayer (right) and Irving Thalberg, during Hollywood's 1920s and 1930s. Thalberg was called 'The Boy Wonder' for making very profitable films, including GRAND HOTEL, CHINA SEA, CAMILLE, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY and THE GOOD EARTH. His career was cut short by his death from pneumonia in 1936. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925098: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins addressing leaders of Labor and Industry Conference. Washington, D.C., May 4, 1937. She asked they cooperate with state and federal governments to avert strikes and lockouts as she developed formula for collective bargaining under the Wagner Labor Relations Act / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925139: Jean Acker, estranged wife of actor Rudolph Valentino. They married on Nov. 6, 1919, and immediately separated. She locked him out of their hotel bedroom on their wedding night. Valentino filed for divorce in Mexico. He married Alla Nazimova on May 13, 1922 in Mexicali, Mexico, before his divorce was legally final / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925145: Jane Addams (left) received the Mary Carrie Thomas Award of Bryn Mawr College. May 3, 1931. She was recognized for her social worker, and leadership for women's suffrage and world peace. In center is Marian Edwards Park, president of Bryn Mawr College. At right is President Emeritus Mary Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr College, in whose honor the prize was founded / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925166: Fulton J. Sheen following a private audience Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, March 17, 1971. Sheen was a celebrated radio and television priest from 1930 to mid-1960s until a dispute with Cardinal Spellman over money. Subsequently, his television work was discouraged, his leadership at the Society for the Propagation of the Faith was terminated, and he was reassigned to Rochester, New York / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925169: Henry Stimson, U.S. Sec. of State, spoke at the London Naval Conference of 1930. It was the third in a series of five meetings limiting the size of the worlds largest navies. Behind Stimson, was Charles Dawes, U.S. Ambassador Britain. Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, at extreme right / Bridgeman Images