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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A scene still from The Fighting Blade with Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill in the foreground and two helmeted guardsmen behind them. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | From left to right, Clarence Brown (director), Joseph M. Schenck, Rudolph Valentino (dressed for the role of Vladimir Dubrovsky), and Douglas Fairbanks, in... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In Algiers, Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is on her knees in supplication to her father, Sidi Malik (Herschell Mayall). The caption typed on the back of t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sitting cross-legged on the floor, the Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is offered jewelry and fine fabrics. Also in the scene, there appear to... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) has joined hands with Zorah (Estelle Allen). Behind them are a servant and, apparently Lucille Ward (as Le... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) stands outdoors in an Algerian market. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In dishabille, Paula Figueroa (played by Lenore Ulric) crouches on a bed in terror as Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) f... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Bruce McLean (played by Forrest Stanley) has been captured by the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and his followers. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Florrie Ricks (played by Agnes Ayres), the daughter of a shipowner, attends to Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan), a seaman who lies unconscious in her lap in a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Shipowner Cappy Ricks (played by Charles Abbe) and seamen Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan) and Ole Peterson (Ivan Linow) onboard a ship in a publicity still f... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Edith Henderson (played by Boots Wall) and Mercy Baxter (Mary Pickford) in a scene still from "Caprice" (Lasky 1913). A caption written on the back of the ... |
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