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"In a Looking Glass" Movie Still

Date: 1916
Description: The actress Nell Craig holds a revolver on Ernest Maupain while Richard Travers looks on in a scene still from the 1916 Essanay film "In a Looking Glass."
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Billie Burke and thugs in a scene still for "Away Goes Prudence."

Date: 1920
Description: Sitting on a table in a filthy cellar, Prudence Thorne (played by Billie Burke) compares knives with a Chinaman as four other thugs watch in a scene still ...
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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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Sessue Hayakawa and Beatrice LaPlante in a scene still for "The Beggar Prince"

Date: 1920
Description: In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar Prince, the Prince of the Island of Desire (played by Sessue Hayakawa) and Olala (Beatrice LaPlante) w...
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Scene still of Fannie Ward in a mine

Date: 1917
Description: Betty Sherwin, played by Fannie Ward with her rock pick in hand, searches her inherited mine for gold in a scene still for the silent comedy "Betty to the ...
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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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Kathlyn Williams and Wallace Reid, forest scene still

Date: 1917
Description: In the forest, Stella Benton (played by Kathlyn Williams in a striped skirt and white blouse) talks to Jack Fyfe (played by Wallace Reid in outdoors clothe...
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Frank Mayo, vigilantes, and Mary Philbin in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: In a log cabin, Bradley Yates (played by Frank Mayo) is confronted by four armed vigilantes, who wear klan-style hoods. The mountain girl Talithy Millicudd...

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