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Gertrude Lawrence and Charles Rugges in "The Battle of Paris"

Date: 1929
Description: Georgie (played by Gertrude Lawrence), clutching sheet music, leans in close to Zisi who holds an accordion (Charles Ruggles) in a scene from the Paramount...
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Rudy Vallee with baton

Date: 1929
Description: Rudy Vallee conducts musicians as a woman sings in "Glorifying the American Girl," a Paramount musical from 1929.
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Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik

Date: 1921
Description: Publicity still of Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik. (Paramount 1921).
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Emil Jannings Exercising

Date: 1927
Description: The famous German actor Emil Jannings is on the roof of his California home posing on a rowing machine. The original caption stamped on the back of the pri...
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Emil Jannings Publicity Portrait

Date: 1927
Description: Paramount Pictures studio portrait of Emil Jannings in coat and tie with a cigar in his mouth.
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Emil Jannings Publicity Portrait

Date: 1927
Description: Close-up, low-key publicity portrait of Emil Jannings in shirt and tie holding a cigar to his mouth.
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Wallace Reid, Dorothy Davenport, and their Son

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Wallace Reid, Paramount star, his wife, formerly Dorothy Davenport, and their son William Wallace Reid Jr., otherwise known as Bill, at ...
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Joseph Theodore Swanson and Gloria Swanson

Date: 1923
Description: Original caption: "Gloria Swanson, Paramount star and her father Capt. Joseph T. Swanson, U.S. Army."
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Gloria Swanson and Joseph Theodore Swanson

Date: 1923
Description: Silent film star Gloria Swanson and her father U.S. Army Captain Joseph T. Swanson.
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Paramount's 1926 Honor Roll

Date: 1926
Description: Original caption: "'That's where our names will be next time,'is the solemn vow of this group of Paramount players and directors before the company's 1926 ...
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Scene Still from "The Young Rajah"

Date: 1922
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...
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Publicity Still from "The Young Rajah"

Date: 1922
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...
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Pola Negri Publicity Still

Date: 1925
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...
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Pola Negri Scene Still

Date: 1925
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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Pola Negri Publicity Still

Date: 1925
Description: This glamorous half-length publicity still shows Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woma...
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Full-length Pola Negri Publicity Still

Date: 1925
Description: Pola Negri stands in front of a shiny satin theater curtain and is dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production ...

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