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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Louis Calhern and Claire Windsor in "The Blot" (Lois Weber Productions). |
| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919). |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | William Farnum and a little girl in a scene still from "Last of the Duanes," a silent film based upon a Zane Grey story (Fox, 1919). |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon in a still from "The Queen of Sheba," a silent William Fox mega-production of 1921. The... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon stand before their thrones and face one another with attendants in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio publicity still of Richard Barthelmess as David Kinemon in Tol'able David (First National 1921). He is barefoot, wears rough clot... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Ramon Novarro on a motion picture set dressed as a French army officer, perhaps from Mr. Barnes of New York. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1916 Kleine film Gloria's Romance. Her costume is a modified gaucho outfit, with hat, cape... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino dressed as the matador Juan Gallardo in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sand. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
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