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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders publicity photograph of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the silent film "The Young Diana" (1922). |
| 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: | Clara Kimball Young (playing Sonia Sokoloff) and two other actors in a scene still from "The Yellow Passport" (1916). The bearded man may be Sonia's uncle ... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young in a flowing white gown) shrinks back in alarm as Fedia (John St. Polis) receives a terrific right punch to t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) stands in a doorway and gestures toward a bedroom to two police officers. The officer with his head thrown b... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "This might be a demonstration of a clubby way to sharpen a carving knife, or it might be nothing but a snapshot of Helene Chadwick and R... |
| 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: | Berta Nordstrom (played by Anita Stewart) struggles with John Mathison (Ward Crane) in a scene still from "The Yellow Typhoon" (1920). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hilda Nordstrom (played by Anita Stewart) comforts an aged woman in a wheelchair, probably Mother Nordstrom, in a scene still from "The Yellow Typhoon." |
| 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: | Dick Mason (played by George Walsh) confronts the corrupt, monocle-wearing Count Vortsky (Edward Cecil) as Princess Alexia (Enid Markey) and Baron Maravitc... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Myra and Bryan (played by Pauline Frederick and Irving Cummings) are locked in an embrace in a highly retouched scene still from "The World's Great Snare." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pauline Frederick as Myra, wearing a kimono, reacts to the signs of her dissipation scattered on a table: playing cards, cigarettes, whiskey, the remains o... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Jack Thomas (played by Bryant Washburn) is falsely accused by Philip Cole (Patrick Calhoun) as his young ward Elsa Thomas (Marguerite Clayton) watches in a... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Roma Winnet and Bob Lawson (played by Virginia Pearson and Irving Cummings) embrace in a scene still from "Wrath of Love." |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Princess Pat (played by Gladys Leslie) sits by the fireplace and examines her face in a hand mirror in a scene still for "The Wooing of Princess Pat." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Accompanied by a maid, Princess Pat, holding a candle, meets King Eric in a dark hallway. Pat was played by Gladys Leslie and the King by J. Frank Glendon... |
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