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Betty Compson and Tom Moore in "Over the Border"

Date: 1922
Description: Jen Galbraith (played by Betty Compson) is embraced by Sergeant Flaherty of the Canadian Mounties (Tom Moore) in a snowy wilderness by a rushing river in a...
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"Taxi" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi.
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"Murder, My Sweet" Film Still

Date: 1944
Description: Film still from the RKO movie "Murder, My Sweet," featuring Dick Powell (playing Philip Marlowe).
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"Murphey's I.O.U." Publicity Still

Date: 1913
Description: Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe...
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"Alias, Mike Moran" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Larry Young (played by Wallace Reid in the uniform of a sergeant in the Canadian army) embraces Elaine Debaux (Ann Little in a nurse's cape) in a scene sti...
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"The Men" Movie Still

Date: 1950
Description: Still from the 1950 United Artists film "The Men," featuring Marlon Brando (as Ken Wilocek) and Everett Sloane (as Dr. Brock). The typewritten caption ...
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Charles Richman, Mary Maurice, James Morrison, and Norma Talmadge in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Harrison (played by Mary Maurice) solemnly presents the family sword to her son John Harrison (Charles Richman, on the left) in a scene still for the ...
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Harry S. Northrup, Lucille Hamill, Louise Beaudet, James Lackaye, Norma Talmadge, Charles Richman, and L. Rodgers Lytton in a scene still.

Date: 1915
Description: After the invasion of the United States, Americans are threatened by the enemy leader Mr. Emanon (played by L. Rodgers Lytton in profile at far right) and ...
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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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H. B. Warner in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India. He ...
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Scene still with John Bowers, Alice Brady, and Frank Mayo

Date: 1917
Description: George Washington's aide Joseph Ashburn (played by John Bowers in Revolutionary War uniform) confronts Clarence Vernon (Frank Mayo) who has been hiding in ...
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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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