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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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Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith

Date: 02 1919
Description: Four of the founders of United Artists, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith.
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Rudolph Valentino, Pola Negri, Mae Murray, and Prince David Mdivani

Date: 1926
Description: Full-length portrait of two couples, Rudolph Valentino with Pola Negri, and Mae Murray with Prince David Mdivani, apparently taken the day of Murray and Md...
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Dorothy Phillips, a Capuchin Monkey, and a Bell and Howell Motion Picture Camera

Date: 1922
Description: Original title: "This is one of the rare snapshots which a photographer gets only once in a peagreen moon. Dorothy Phillips, star of Allen Holubar's Th...
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An Unidentified Actor, an English bulldog, and Blanche Sweet Sitting on a Trunk

Date: 1920
Description: An unidentified actor dressed as a train porter holds a coin out to Blanche Sweet who is sitting on a trunk with her bulldog in a motion picture scene stil...
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Clara Kimball Young, an Automobile, and a Chow Dog

Date: 1918
Description: The silent film actress Clara Kimball Young, dressed for a drive in a military-styled coat with patch pockets and a dark straw hat, stands beside a car wit...
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Vivian Martin in a Cadillac Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film actress Vivian Martin sits behind the wheel of what appears to be a 1916 Cadillac two-door coupe.
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Priscilla Lane, and Wayne Morris in a publicity still for "Brother Rat"

Date: 1938
Description: Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Priscilla Lane, and Wayne Morris in a publicity still for Warner Brothers' film "Brother Rat."
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John Gilbert and Greta Garbo

Date: 01 1927
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...
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John Gilbert and Marlene Dietrich

Date: 1935
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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"Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund"

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s...
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James Kirkwood, Lila Lee, and their Son

Date: 1924
Description: Silent film director James Kirkwood, his wife the actress Lila Lee, and their infant son James Kirkwood, Jr.
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H.B. Warner, Joan Warner and Rita Stanwood Warner

Date: 1921
Description: Original caption: "Mr. Warner's spare moments are divided between cleansing his car and photographing his baby while Mrs Warner devoted herself to photogra...
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Claire Windsor, her Parents and her Son

Date: 1922
Description: Silent film star Claire Windsor (center) with her small son David Willis Bowes Jr. in a Fauntleroy suit, flanked by her mother, Rosella Fearing Cronk, and ...
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Clara Kimball Young and her Father

Date: 1918
Description: The actor Edward M. Kimball, wearing pince-nez, reads a script to his daughter, the silent film star Clara Kimball Young. She is on a chaise lounge with a ...
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Clara Kimball Young and Pauline Maddern Kimball

Date: 1918
Description: Pauline Maddern Kimball, holding a basket of flowers, shows a bouquet to her daughter, the silent film star Clara Kimball Young who is on a chaise lounge w...
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Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, and an unknown actor in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Buster Keaton hoists a Model T engine from a wrecked car as Virginia Fox flirts with an unidentified actor in a scene still for the 1922 comedy short "The ...
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Still from "The Show"

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Description: A production still from the 1927 film "The Show." Cock Robin (John Gilbert) is on a small stage with a woman floating on her side next to him. Another man ...
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Still from "The Show"

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Description: Cock Robin (John Gilbert) stands behind a big cat that is tied to a column. A man sits on a throne with a woman and man sitting on either side of him. An a...

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