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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of actor John Gilbert with a pipe in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of actor John Gilbert wearing a tuxedo. |
| Date: | 05 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Composite of four head and shoulders portraits of the three former wives and the fiancée of actor John Gilbert: Olivia Burwell (top left), Leatrice Joy (to... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Actors John Gilbert and Ramon Novarro compare their moustaches. Gilbert is in costume. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert sitting on a couch in the living room of his Beverly Hills mansion. He is staring at the fireplace which has a light fixture inside it. |
| Date: | 01 1927 |
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| Description: | John Gilbert and Greta Garbo pose for photograph at the premiere of their film "The Flesh and the Devil." She is wearing a fur coat, white gloves and is ho... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the film "The Show." John Gilbert is seen in profile — he is wearing a hat, striped shirt, and a scarf around his neck. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor John Gilbert in "The Cossacks." He is looking towards the left and smiling, and is wearing a big bushy hat and holding a gun at hi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders publicity still of actor John Gilbert for the film Redemption which was released in 1930. He looks directly at the viewer and is wearing... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert and boxer/author Jim Tully shake hands. Each is smiling and wearing a boxing glove on one hand. This publicity still may be a reference ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1932 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrais of actor John Gilbert and his fiancée Virginia Bruce. Both are smiling — he is looking at her and she is looking at the camer... |
| Date: | 08 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert and Greta Garbo shake hands and smile at one another their first day on the set of the movie "Queen Christina." She is wearing a fur coa... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert sits next to Marlene Dietrich at a party thrown by Clifton Webb. They are both in formal dress. There are empty dinner plates and a bask... |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor Edward Everett Horton, posing with a cigarette. |
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