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Scene still with Dorothy Gish and Ernest Marion.

Date: 1918
Description: Jane the waif (played by Dorothy Gish) offers Baby Sheldon (Ernest Marion) a pancake in a scene still for the silent film "Battling Jane." Behind them is a...
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Scene still with Bessie Barriscale, Arthur Shirley, and six children

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for "Bawbs o' Blue Ridge," Barbara "Bawbs" Colby (played by Bessie Barriscale) entertains six African-American children among the trees of...
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Scene still with Arthur Shirley and Bessie Barriscale.

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for "Bawbs o' Blue Ridge," Ralph Gunter (played by Arthur Shirley) talks to Barbara "Bawbs" Colby (Bessie Barriscale) in a forest of the A...
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Scene Still with Grace Darling, Harry Fox, Robin H. Townley, and Mary Cranston

Date: 1916
Description: In this scene still for episode seven ("A Name for a Baby") of the silent serial "Beatrice Fairfax," Beatrice Fairfax (played by Grace Darling) bursts in u...
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Florence Vidor and Lloyd Hughes in a Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Nellie Steel, a cabaret dancer played by Florence Vidor, and Dick Revel, the young man who loves her (Lloyd Hughes), are having a crucial conversation in t...
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David Powell and Ann Murdock in a scene still

Date: 1917
Description: Forced to leave the girl he loves, Andre d'Eguzon (played by David Powell) sadly says goodbye to Helen de Travillac (Anna Murdock) in a scene still for the...
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Harry Myers and Marie Prevost in a comic scene still

Date: 1923
Description: Harry Myers and Marie Prevost perform in a makeshift home theater with footlights made from candles on canned goods in a scene still for the silent drama "...
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Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost in a wrecked room

Date: 1922
Description: This scene still for the 1922 Warner drama "The Beautiful and the Damned" is set in a wrecked room with an overturned chair and table, broken picture frame...
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Scene still with Harry Myers, Kenneth Harlan, and Marie Prevost

Date: 1922
Description: In this scene still for the silent Warner Brothers drama "The Beautiful and the Damned," three men dressed in formal evening wear show their appreciation f...
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Ella Hall and Robert Z. Leonard in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: Actress Ella Hall sits behind the wheel of an open roadster automobile, perhaps a Stutz Bearcat. Sitting beside her is Robert Z. Leonard costumed for a cou...
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Emory Johnson and Ella Hall in an outdoor scene still

Date: 1918
Description: The cousins Pepe Rey Don Jose (played by Emory Johnson) and Rosarita (Ella Hall) stand in a Spanish garden looking apprehensive in a scene still from the 1...
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Billy B. Van and Raymond Hitchcock in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: The undertaker Sobini (played by Billy B. Van) struggles for the spaghetti with Dr. Arbutus Budd (Raymond Hitchcock) in a scene still for the silent 1922 c...
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Scene still with Raymond Hitchcock and Louise Fazenda

Date: 1922
Description: Dr. Arbutus Budd (played by Raymond Hitchcock in an aristocratic uniform) appears stunned as Cremo Panatella (Louise Fazenda made up with a large false nos...
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Scene still with James J. Corbett, Louise Fazenda, Billy B. Van, and Montague Love

Date: 1922
Description: From left to right, grouped around a table in a courtyard in a scene still from the 1922 silent comedy "The Beauty Shop," are the actors James J. Corbett, ...
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Montagu Love glares at Raymond Hitchcock and Diana Allen in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: The evil Maldonado (played by Montagu Love) glares at Dr. Arbutus Bud (Raymond Hitchcock in an aristocratic uniform) and his daughter Ann Bud (Diana Allen)...
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Raymond Hitchcock and Marion Fairbanks publicity still

Date: 1922
Description: Raymond Hitchcock (in costume as Dr. Arbutus Budd pretending to be an Italian noble) and Marion Fairbanks (as Cola, an Italian girl) grin at each other in ...
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Scene still with a donkey, Marion Fairbanks, Raymond Hitchcock, and Madeline Fairbanks

Date: 1922
Description: Raymond Hitchcock (in costume as Dr. Arbutus Budd pretending to be an Italian nobleman) is arm in arm with the Fairbanks Twins, Marion Fairbanks on the lef...
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Raymond Hitchcock and a dog in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Dr. Arbutus Budd, played by Raymond Hitchcock, is in his laboratory testing a new beauty formula on a forlorn Pekingese dog in a scene still for the silent...
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Marion Davies and a host of extras in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Marion Davies, costumed as an East Indian princess, sits enthroned at the back of a lavishly decorated set surrounded by a crowd of worshipful soldiers, da...
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Henry Woodruff, Rhea Mitchell, and Tsuru Aoki in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ...

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