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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Mary MacLaren young star of "Bluebird Photoplays." |
| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Agnes Moorehead as a child, posing with a parasol next to a chair in front of a photographic studio painted backdrop. She is wearing a white dress and has ... |
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| Description: | Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist... |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt in an interesting pose: arms straight out, palms down, as if she were warming by a fire. She wear... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt posed in the "Egyptian" style. She wears an intricate dress decorated with metallic ribbons and a... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Half-length publicity portrait of Lillie Langtry wearing a dress decorated with a large bat at the neckline. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl... |
| 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: | 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: | 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 actress Hattie McDaniel, in head scarf and blouse. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actress Marjorie Main in a print blouse. Caption reads: From Shakespeare... to modern comedy is the amazing career of Marjorie Main, pop... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actress Elsa Lanchester. |
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