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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Does Dick Barthelmess read 'fan' letters? We'll say he does. The photographer caught him on his porch opening his mail, while waiting f... |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Ivor Novello in a light-colored suit by Herman Mishkin, New York. Original caption: "Ivor Novello in The Bohemian Girl." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Ivor Novello by Herman Mishkin, New York. |
| 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: | Hoover Art Studio publicity photograph of Ramon Novarro, apparently used for the 1922 production Trifling Women. |
| 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: | 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. ... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | Juan Gallardo (played by Rudolph Valentino) plays the lute for Doña Sol de Guevara (Nita Naldi) in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sa... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) plays the harp for Juan Gallardo (Rudolph Valentino) in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sa... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original title: "This is one of the rare snapshots which a photographer gets only once in a peagreen moon. Dorothy Phillips, star of Allen Holubar's Th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Ruth Roland in riding costume and a velveteen cap playing with a small monkey. |
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