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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Louis Calhern and Claire Windsor in "The Blot" (Lois Weber Productions). |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Nellie Nolan (left, played by Edith Taliaferro) and her friend Lou (Florence Dagmar) conspire to make Nellie appear to be the well-traveled heiress Ethel V... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Surrounded by wealthy hotel guests dressed in formal evening wear, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) learns that the person she is pretending to be... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) signs the register of an expensive resort hotel under the assumed name Ethel Van Dusen in a scene still from "You... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The Maharajah of Dharmagar (played by Rudolph Valentino) embraces Molly Cabot (Wanda Hawley) in a scene still from "The Young Rajah" (1922). Valentino wear... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino poses wearing very little but an elaborate breechcloth decorated with pearls for his role as the Maharajah of Dharmagar in "The Young Raj... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A scene still set in Doctor Demetrius's laboratory from the silent film "The Young Diana." Diana May (played by Marion Davies) has just been rejuvenated by... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) in a flowing white gown is seated while Adolph Rosenheimer (Edwin August) is on one knee hanging onto the ar... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Blanche Ring in riding clothes (playing Jessie Gordon) and, probably, Joe Ray (as Ramon Morales) in "The Yankee Girl" (1915). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Margaret Vane (played by Norma Talmadge) stands by her dressing table and fusses with the little Pomeranian dog held by her maid in a scene still from "Yes... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Princess Alexia (played by Enid Markey in an elaborately decorated dress and wearing a crown) marches arm in arm with Dick Mason (George Walsh) in a scene ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Anita Stewart wears a dress made of burlap playing Olympia in the Vitagraph production "The Wood Violet" (1912). |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Prince Michael Orbeliana (played by Lou Tellegen in an aristocratic white military uniform) visits the opera singer Marcia Warren (Geraldine Farrar wearing... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Ernesto, in a light-colored three-piece suit, and Teodora, in a black dress and several layers of wraps about her shoulders, have an earnest conversation i... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | William Burroughs (played by Wallace Reid in formal evening wear and well-oiled hair) uses a flower to toy with Lady Elizabeth Galton (Lois Wilson) in a sc... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bessie Barriscale and Forrest Stanley, both wearing formal evening wear, pose in a soulful publicity still for "A Woman Who Understood." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Ethel Clayton in a floor-length Japanese print dress and long white gloves flinches as Joseph Kaufman punches an unidentified actor in a scene still from "... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A missionary from New England, Winthrop Stark (played by William B. Davidson), professes his love to Princess Zara (Theda Bara in a grass skirt) on the Sou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A glamorous head and shoulders publicity still of Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Wom... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This glamorous scene still shows Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woman of the World."... |
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