EVB2925358: Director Karl Freund testing the light conditions on the set of THE GOOD EARTH, near Hollywood. Jan. 21, 1937. Some of the film shot in China was lost and had to be re-filmed in the US. At left is Hop Wing, a member of the cast. Freund won the Best Cinematography Oscar for his filming of THE GOOD EARTH / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925713: Comrades A. S. Yenukidze, Josef Stalin, and Maxim Gorky on 10th Anniversary of the Red Sportintern. At Lenin's Tomb, Moscow, August 3, 1931. Later, Comrade A. S. Yenukidze, would be cropped out of this picture. In Great Purge of the 1930s Enukidze was expelled from the Party, arrested, tried, and shot for disloyalty to Stalin, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925633: Kay Summersby with her World War II memorabilia, including autographed photos of Winston Churchill, George Marshall, Franklin Roosevelt and a framed letter from General Eisenhower, a ribboned medal, and the unframed photo of Gen. Omar Bradley she is holding. Publicity photo for her 1948 memoir, 'Eisenhower Was My Boss.' / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925529: Joe Adonis, was named as one of the U.S. top six criminals by Kefauver Committee in 1950. On May 28, 1951, he was sentenced to 2-3 years in New Jersey state prison. Actor James Percell portrayed Adonis in GANGSTER WARS, 1984. Lewis Van Bergen portrayed Adonis in the 1991 film, BUGSY, 1991 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925541: John D. Archbold, independent oilman and critic of Rockefeller's growing monopoly in the 1870s. He was recruited into Standard Oil in the early 1880s. After the monopoly was broken up by U.S. courts, he became President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey from 1911 until his death in 1916 leaving a fortune of million / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925574: Lin Hui-Ching of Communist China at the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan. April 7, 1971. The Chinese team dominated the tournament, their first participation after a six-year absence due to the 'Cultural Revolution'. This international competition marked the end of Red China's self imposed isolation. Lin's opponent is Ilona Vostova of Czechoslovakia / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925577: Sol Hurok, impresario who managed the international performances and legendary artists. March 1953. Among his clients were: Feodor Chaliapin, Van Cliburn, Isadora Duncan, Margot Fonteyn, Anna Pavlova, Andrés Segovia, Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, and Marian Anderson / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925616: Helena Rubenstein, world famous cosmetician and art collector greets guests at her NYC home. Oct. 1950. She was opening her new penthouse art galleries, displaying her collections of modern and surrealist art. Rubenstein talks with Paul Williams and Mrs. Dee Bredanat a benefit for the Hospitalized Veterans Music Service / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925619: Stephen Zweig, Jewish Austrian writer, was international popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Two of his books were made into films. BEWARE OF PITY, was made in 1946 starring Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven and Cedric Hardwicke; and LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, 1948, with Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine, and Marcel Journet / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925718: K.E. Voroshilov, Joseph Stalin, V.M. Molotov at funeral for Soviet stratosphere martyrs. On Jan 30, 1934, Osoaviakhim-1, a hydrogen-filled high-altitude balloon carried a capsule with a crew of three 72,000 feet into the Earth's stratosphere. Catastrophic loss of buoyancy resulted in a crash that killed all the men / Bridgeman Images