![Bill Gunn [center] and unidentified others in the stage production Take a Giant Step](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=5026253&t=b)
![Godfrey Cambridge [back] and unidentified others in the stage production Take a Giant Step](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=5026255&t=b)
![Beah Richards [right] and unidentified in the stage production Take a Giant Step](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=5026258&t=b)
![Louis Gossett [center] and unidentified others in the stage production Take a Giant Step](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=5026262&t=b)
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Billie Allen [seated left at table], Anita Cipriani [standing in background], Godfrey Cambridge [seated right at table], Bill Gunn [wearing white top behind counter] and unidentified [middleground wearing fur coat] in the stage production Take a Giant Step
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Billy Rose Theatre Division
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Take a giant step [1953]
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![Billie Allen [seated left at table], Anita Cipriani [standing in background], Godfrey Cambridge [seated right at table], Bill Gunn [wearing white top behind counter] and unidentified [middleground wearing fur coat] in the stage production Take a Giant Step](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=4024236&t=b)
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Billie Allen [seated left at table], Anita Cipriani [standing in background], Godfrey Cambridge [seated right at table], Bill Gunn [wearing white top behind counter] and unidentified [middleground wearing fur coat] in the stage production Take a Giant Step" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1953. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/be5b563d-3319-a05b-e040-e00a18060c66
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Billie Allen [seated left at table], Anita Cipriani [standing in background], Godfrey Cambridge [seated right at table], Bill Gunn [wearing white top behind counter] and unidentified [middleground wearing fur coat] in the stage production Take a Giant Step" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 24, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/be5b563d-3319-a05b-e040-e00a18060c66
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1953). Billie Allen [seated left at table], Anita Cipriani [standing in background], Godfrey Cambridge [seated right at table], Bill Gunn [wearing white top behind counter] and unidentified [middleground wearing fur coat] in the stage production Take a Giant Step Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/be5b563d-3319-a05b-e040-e00a18060c66
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Billie Allen [seated left at table], Anita Cipriani [standing in background], Godfrey Cambridge [seated right at table], Bill Gunn [wearing white top behind counter] and unidentified [middleground wearing fur coat] in the stage production Take a Giant Step, (1953)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=September 24, 2026 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>
![Billie Allen [seated left at table], Anita Cipriani [standing in background], Godfrey Cambridge [seated right at table], Bill Gunn [wearing white top behind counter] and unidentified [middleground wearing fur coat] in the stage production Take a Giant Step](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=4024236&t=t)