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Actors Owen Moore and Dorothy Gish in a roadster

Date: 1916
Description: Owen Moore is behind the wheel of a two-seat open roadster automobile with Dorothy Gish beside him in this scene still for the silent drama "Betty of Grays...
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Robert Z. Leonard in uniform in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Robert Z. Leonard costumed as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the Civil War, pauses warily by a window in a scene still for the silent drama "Betty'...
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Owen Moore, Florene Lawrence, and two other actors

Date: 1912
Description: The farmer's wife (played by an unidentified actress) and hired hand (Owen Moore) cower as Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) threatens to dose the wife wi...
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Florence Lawrence and Owen More in a kitchen scene still

Date: 1912
Description: The farm's hired hand John (played by Owen Moore) carefully approaches Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) who has fallen asleep while peeling a potato in a...
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Scene still with Chester Conklin, Mary Thurman, and Ford Sterling

Date: 1918
Description: Seated around a table in a dining room, Mary Thurman offers a spoonful of peas to Ford Sterling (at right, dressed as a dandy) while Chester Conklin begs f...
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Charles K. French and Ethel Clayton in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: Charles K. French and Ethel Clayton have a heart to heart talk seated in comfortable parlor in this scene still for the silent drama "Beyond."
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Louis Haines, Pearl White, and Arthur Gordini in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: Sally Marrio (played by Pearl White) appears to be falling with a rake end poker in her hand as the banker J. Peter Weathersby (Louis Haines) watches from ...
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Louis Haines and Pearl White seated in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: The banker J. Peter Weathersby (played by Louis Haines grinning with a cigar in his hand) sits beside Sally Marrio (Pearl White) who is delivering a pair o...
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Florence La Badie, Charles A. Jahn, Arthur Bauer, and a Host of Extras in a Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Surrounded by a crowd of extras in evening clothes, a police officer (played by Arthur Bauer) holds out a wanted poster reading "Reward $50,000 Charles Bur...
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Florence La Badie, Charles A. Jahn, and Arthur Bauer scene still

Date: 1915
Description: In a scene still set in a police station for the 1915 Thanhouser silent drama "Bianca Forgets" are Bianca Wells (played by Florence La Badie wearing a whit...
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Rudolph Valentino at the piano

Date: 1922
Description: Lord Hector Bracondale (played by Rudolph Valentino) sits in a reverie at a piano as a butler delivers a letter on a salver in a scene still for the silent...
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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino studio publicity still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson, as Theodora Fitzgerald, and Rudolph Valentino, as Lord Hector Bracondale, in a full-length seated Keyes studio publicity still for the 1922...
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Gloria Swanson rescued by Rudolph Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson (as Theodora Fitzgerald) is carried in the arms of Rudolph Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) in her rescue from a snowy mountain ledge in a...
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Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson in a garden, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Lord Hector Bracondale, played by Rudolph Valentino, approaches Theodora Fitzgerald (Gloria Swanson) by a gate in a garden wall covered with camellias. The...
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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino seated in a garden, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Fighting tears, Theodora Fitzgerald (played by Gloria Swanson) looks away from Lord Hector Bracondale (Rudolph Valentino) who stares at her with deep feeli...
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Goria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and a handkerchief, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Theodora Fitzgerald (played by Gloria Swanson) looks into the eyes of Lord Hector Bracondale (Rudolph Valentino) who is returning her handkerchief in a sce...
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Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, and Gertrude Astor, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Lord Hector Bracondale (played by Rudolph Valentino) has a heart to heart talk with his mother Lady Bracondale (Edythe Chapman) as Morella Winmarleigh (Ger...
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Mabel Van Buren and Rudolf Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Mabel Van Buren (as Mrs. McBride) and Rudolf Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) sit side by side in a scene still for the silent drama "Beyond the Rocks."
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Gloria Swanson attended by Rudolph Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson (as a semiconscious Theodora Fitzgerald) is offered a sip from the silver hip flask of Rudolph Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) in her res...
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Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, and Rudolph Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Theodora Fitzgerald and her father Captain Fitzgerald (played by Gloria Swanson and Alec B. Francis) talk to Lord Hector Bracondale (Rudolf Valentino) in a...

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