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Take a look at George Bernard Shaw speaking on the marvels of Movietone
George Bernard Shaw speaking about the novelty of technology; excerpt from a Hearst...
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Hear Donald Moffatt as George Bernard Shaw discuss William Shakespeare's eponymous protagonist Julius Caesar
George Bernard Shaw, portrayed by Donald Moffatt, analyzing William Shakespeare's...
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Discover what George Bernard Shaw might have to say about William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar
George Bernard Shaw, portrayed by Donald Moffatt, talking about William Shakespeare's...
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Discover how George Bernard Shaw might compare his Caesar and Cleopatra to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
George Bernard Shaw, portrayed by Donald Moffatt, discussing Shaw's
Caesar and...
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw at his country home in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, Eng.,...
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Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle and Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins in the 1938 film...
© 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.; photograph from a private collection
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw,
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1934.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3a26142u)
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Silkscreen poster by B. Lassen for the Federal Theatre Project presentation of George...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (digital file no. 3b49060)
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