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Scene Still from The Fighting Blade

Date: 1923
Description: A scene still from The Fighting Blade with Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill in the foreground and two helmeted guardsmen behind them.
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Scene Still from The Fighting Blade

Date: 1923
Description: Scene still from The Fighting Blade showing Richard Barthelmess with his arm around Dorothy Mackaill (Inspiration 1923).
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Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely in "Johnny on the Spot"

Date: 1919
Description: Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919).
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"Sirens of the Sea" Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: Jack Mulhall and Louise Lovely meet on a beach surrounded by young women wearing bathing costumes composed mostly of seaweed in "Sirens of the Sea" (Univer...
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The Wedding at Cana, a Scene From "Intolerance"

Date: 1916
Description: A crowded scene still from "Intolerance": Christ at the wedding at Cana with Howard Gaye as Christ, and with Bessie Love and George Walsh as the bride and ...
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"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon in a still from "The Queen of Sheba," a silent William Fox mega-production of 1921. The...
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"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon stand before their thrones and face one another with attendants in the background.
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Production Still from The Immigrant

Date: 1917
Description: The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B...
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George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in a Scene Still from "Sunrise"

Date: 1927
Description: The Man (George O'Brien) suffers with guilt as he remembers his wedding vows, while the Wife (Janet Gaynor) comforts him, in a scene still from "Sunrise: A...
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Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien in "Sunrise."

Date: 1927
Description: The Wife (Janet Gaynor) flees from the Man (George O'Brien) after he has tried to kill her, in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Fox, 1927).
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Traffic in Souls Scene Still

Date: 1913
Description: The characters Lorna Barton (played by Ethel Grandin) and Bill Bradshaw (William Cavanaugh) in a cafe scene from Traffic in Souls (1913, IMP).
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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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Karl Dane

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Description: Publicity still of Karl Dane in western wear posing with an African-American woman and her two children.
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Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa in "The Cheat"

Date: 1915
Description: Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ...
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Richard Barthelmess Writing

Date: 1917
Description: A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some...
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Publicity Still of Richard Barthelmess Answering Fan Mail

Date: 04 20 1922
Description: Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig...
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Scene Still from The Twins of Suffering Creek

Date: 1920
Description: Scene still with William Russell as Bill Lark and Louise Lovely as Little Casino seated at a poker table in the 1920 Fox production The Twins of Sufferi...
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Scene Still with Mary Maurice, John Bunny, Julia Swayne Gordon, and Helen Gardner

Date: 1911
Description: Scene still from the Vitagraph production Treasure Trove. Left to right are Mary Maurice, John Bunny, Julia Swayne Gordon, and Helen Gardner. John B...
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Scene Still with William Shea, John Bunny, Wallace Reid, Marshall P. Wilder, and Leah Baird

Date: 1912
Description: Heavily retouched scene still from the 1912 Vitagraph production Chumps. Left to right: William Shea, John Bunny, Wallace Reid, Marshall P. Wilder, ...
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Billie Burke, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Kid Broad

Date: 1919
Description: Billie Burke, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Kid Broad outside having a conversation. Burke has on athletic wear, bloomers and a sweater. This picture may have been...

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