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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Esther Meyers (played by Vera Gordon) tries to reconcile her two sons, on the left Robert Meyers (Harry Benham) and on the right Harry Meyers (Stanley... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) is in a heated discussion with a police chief or some other authority (played by Morgan Jones) in a scene still from th... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) talks to a cheese maker (Justus D. Barnes) in his shop in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The print ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Hassam Ali (played by James Cruze) is evesdropping from behind a bush on his neice Zudora (Marguerite Snow) and John Storm (Harry Benham) in a scene still ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Zudora (played by Marguerite Snow) sits at a table while John Storm (Harry Benham) practices with a semi-automatic pistol in a candlelit basement in a scen... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | In a candlelit basement, John Storm (played by Harry Benham) loads bullets into a pistol magazine in a scene still for the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) slaps a moustached man (Arthur Bauer) with a piece of paper while a judge, witness (John Reinhard, rear right), court c... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Printed lobby card with hand-coloring for the Thanhouser silent film serial "Zudora." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Stars of the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." From left to right James Cruze, Marguerite Snow, and Harry Benham. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actor Harry Benham points accusingly at a ruffian on the floor as two police officers subdue two criminals in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zud... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Scene still of an enormous, elaborate winter set populated by scores of dancers designed by Joseph Urban for "The Young Diana." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders publicity photograph of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the silent film "The Young Diana" (1922). |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A scene still set in Doctor Demetrius's laboratory from the silent film "The Young Diana." Diana May (played by Marion Davies) has just been rejuvenated by... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dr. Dimitrius (played by Pedro de Cordoba) looks meaningfully at Diana May (Marion Davies) who clings to Commander Richard Cleeve (Forrest Stanley) in a sc... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Clara Kimball Young (playing Sonia Sokoloff) and two other actors in a scene still from "The Yellow Passport" (1916). The bearded man may be Sonia's uncle ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) in a flowing white gown is seated while Adolph Rosenheimer (Edwin August) is on one knee hanging onto the ar... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young in a flowing white gown) shrinks back in alarm as Fedia (John St. Polis) receives a terrific right punch to t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) stands in a doorway and gestures toward a bedroom to two police officers. The officer with his head thrown b... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "This might be a demonstration of a clubby way to sharpen a carving knife, or it might be nothing but a snapshot of Helene Chadwick and R... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Blanche Ring in riding clothes (playing Jessie Gordon) and, probably, Joe Ray (as Ramon Morales) in "The Yankee Girl" (1915). |
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