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Studio Portrait of Ramon Novarro

Date: 1922
Description: Hoover Art Studio publicity photograph of Ramon Novarro, apparently used for the 1922 production Trifling Women.
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Publicity Portrait of Ramon Novarro in Character

Date: 1922
Description: Publicity portrait of Ramon Novarro in costume for the role of Rupert of Hentzau in The Prisoner of Zenda (MGM 1922). Novarro autographed this Hoove...
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
Description: Seated three-quarter length portrait of Nita Naldi by Donald Biddle Keyes, 1922. Naldi has 12 silver Spanish combs in her hair that are brightly backlit. ...
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
Description: Full-length portrait of Nita Naldi wearing a long pearl necklace and beaded dress. The photograph was probably made by Donald Biddle Keyes as publicity for...
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
Description: Full-length portrait of Nita Naldi standing by a Spanish-style chair. The photograph was probably made by Donald Biddle Keyes as publicity for the 1922 Par...
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
Description: Waist-up seated portrait of Nita Naldi wearing pearls around her neck and in her hair. The photograph was made by Donald Biddle Keyes, most probably for th...
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Portrait of Billie Burke

Date: 1909
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1909 Broadway comedy Love Watches. This Sarony Studio portrait is a s...
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Billy Burke in The Dutchess of Dantzic

Date: 1903
Description: Billie Burke raises a glass posed as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre i...
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Billy Burke in The Dutchess of Dantzic

Date: 1903
Description: Billie Burke carries a tea tray as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre in ...
Postcard

Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival

Date: 1903
Description: The cast members Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put M...
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Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley

Date: 1903
Description: Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put Me in My Little Canoe...
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Miss Billie Burke

Date: 1905
Description: Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appeara...
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Miss Billie Burke

Date: 1907
Description: An embossed color postcard with two head and shoulders portraits of Billie Burke produced by the Philco Publishing Company of London, England. Caption read...
Postcard

Billie Burke Seated in a Chair

Date: 1906
Description: Johnston & Hoffmann publicity photograph of Billie Burke in a lacy dress with her hair piled on top of her head. Reproduced as a postcard by J. Beagles & C...
Postcard

Portrait of a young Billie Burke

Date: 1903
Description: Head and shoulders publicity portrait of Billie Burke resting her cheek on her hand. She wears long white gloves and a large lacy white hat. Published as a...
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Lenore Ulric as Wetona

Date: 1916
Description: Lenore Ulric draws her bow crouched on a papier-mâché boulder. She starred as Wetona in the 1916 Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona...
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Lenore Ulric Listening to the Radio

Date: 1922
Description: Broadway star Lenore Ulric, dressed and made-up for the stage, listens to an early portable radio receiver.
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Publicity Portrait of Rudolph Valentino

Date: 1922
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino dressed as the matador Juan Gallardo in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sand.
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Lina Cavalieri

Date: 1901
Description: The young Italian operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri in suggestive deshabille, her pearl decorated dress falling off her shoulders.
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W.C. Fields in "Poppy"

Date: 1923
Description: W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats.

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