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Jackie Robinson relaxes between takes on the set of the 1950 biopic, The Jackie Robinson Story, in which he starred as himself. arts & entertainment

Jackie Robinson: Classic Photos of an American Icon

Josephine Baker during a run on Broadway, New York, 1951 arts & entertainment

Josephine Baker: An Expat’s Triumphant Return to Broadway

Tennessee Williams at his typewriter in New York in 1948. arts & entertainment

Tennessee Williams: Portraits of an American Genius

A skier trains for the Olympics, Squaw Valley, California, 1950. arts & entertainment

1952 U.S. Olympic Skiers: Stunning Images from Squaw Valley

Spiritual simplicity was Mies' aim in designing the Illinois Tech Chapel. Maintaining the basic campus pattern, he insisted on flat-roofed rectangle but provided brick walls to give the chapel a sense of privacy and solitude. Steel mullions of the facade echo shape of the cross above the altar arts & entertainment

Mies van der Rohe and the Poetry of Purpose

Liza Minnelli runs lines with her Flora the Red Menace costar Bob Dishy. In the show, Liza's Flora falls for his character, a fellow designer who pulls her toward Communism. arts & entertainment

Liza Minnelli at 19: Rare Photos of a Legend on the Cusp of Stardom

Dancer and actor Gene Kelly in a multiple-exposure dance sequence from the movie Cover Girl, 1944. arts & entertainment

Classic Photos of Stars in Stop Motion

In the eight-team 1958 Dixie Classic, the Michigan State Spartans (in the dark uniforms) made it all the way to the final before falling to host North Carolina State (in white). At the end of the season, N.C. State was ranked sixth and Michigan State seventh in the final AP poll. arts & entertainment

College Basketball’s Golden Days

French writer Albert Camus smokes a cigarette on the balcony outside his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard's office in Paris, 1955. Camus won the Nobel in 1957; in 1960, when he was 46 years old, he was killed in a car crash along with Gallimard, who was driving. arts & entertainment

The Nobel Prize in Literature: Portraits of Legendary Laureates

LIFE Magazine, November 9, 1959. Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Philippe Halsman. arts & entertainment

Might as Well Jump: LIFE Cover Portraits by Philippe Halsman

Sisters at St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie, Penn., watch a program on a new local TV station, 1949. arts & entertainment

Classic Photos of People Watching TV

John Wayne accepts the Best Director Oscar from Olivia DeHavillan for an absent John Ford during the 25th annual Academy Awards in 1953 arts & entertainment

LIFE at the Oscars: Classic Photos From Hollywood’s Biggest Night

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