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Charles (“Buddy”) Rogers and Clara Bow in Wings (1927) Wings James Cagney in a tuxedo holding a gun sits in the foreground, while Jean Harlow in a glamorous dress stands behind him holding a cigarette holder, in a scene from The Public Enemy. Fredric March and Janet Gaynor sit close together on the floor, gazing at each other and smiling, in a scene from the 1937 film A Star is Born. Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston dressed in French Foreign Legion uniforms sit together smiling in a scene from the 1939 film Beau Geste. Dana Andrews, a bearded man holding rope, and Henry Fonda in cowboy attire stand together in front of a wooden wall in a scene from The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). scene from The High and the Mighty Ladies of the Mob Black-and-white scene from The Ox-Bow Incident showing a posse gathered around three tied men, with Henry Fonda as Gil Carter standing to the right holding a gun.
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Dec 05, 2025
Link added. May 20, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 15, 2024
Anniversary information added. Feb 25, 2024
Links added. Feb 23, 2023
Invalidated site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of William A. Wellman. Apr 03, 2020
Corrected the characterization of the significance of The President Vanishes. Jan 06, 2020
Added cross-references. Dec 18, 2019
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of William A. Wellman. Apr 13, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of William Wellman. Apr 13, 2017
Added photographs. Sep 25, 2014
Article thoroughly revised. Apr 11, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Biography of William Wellman. Jun 02, 2011
Changed the release date of Wings from 1929 to 1927. Oct 20, 2009
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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