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Rudolph Valentino and Rosa Rosanova

Date: 1922
Description: Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand.
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John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a Parmount Artcraft Picture

Date: 1920
Description: John Barrymore, as Dr. Henry Jekyll, kisses the hand of Martha Mansfield, as Millicent Carew, in a production still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fa...
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Scene Still with Richard Barthelmess and Nita Naldi

Date: 1921
Description: Youth (played by Richard Barthelmess) is given the full treatment by Temptation (Nita Naldi) in the 1921 George Fitzmaurice production Experience.
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Publicity Portrait of Rudolph Valentino

Date: 1922
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino dressed as the matador Juan Gallardo in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sand.
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Kathlyn Williams and Bell & Howell Camera

Date: 1920
Description: Actress Kathlyn Williams wearing an evening dress sits in William C. de Mille's director's chair holding his small megaphone. Behind her is one of the Bell...
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Marguerite Clark

Date: 1917
Description: Marguerite Clark looks through the viewfinder of a Pathé motion picture camera in a publicity still.
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"A Liberty Bond Plea" Scene Still

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Charles Ray in a Liberty Loan Film by courtesy Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and Thomas H. Ince. Distributed by the National Associat...
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Adelaide Klanowski Swanson and Gloria Swanson

Date: 01 31 1919
Description: The silent film star Gloria Swanson and her mother Adelaide Klanowski Swanson embrace in a Famous Players-Lasky publicity still. Both wear winter coats wit...
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Wallace Reid Fishing

Date: 1922
Description: In a publicity still used to promote "The World's Champion," the silent film star Wallace Reid is shown fishing in a river, probably in Yosemite National P...
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"After the Show" Publicity Still

Date: 1921
Description: The young chorus girl Eileen (played by Lila Lee) is in the embrace of the millionaire Larry Taylor (Jack Holt) in an outdoor publicity still for William d...
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Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall Publicity Still

Date: 1920
Description: In this publicity still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall are talking outdoors in a rose garden. Both are dressed very fashion...
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Publicity still with Joseph Kilgour, Betty Compson, and Casson Ferguson.

Date: 1921
Description: The banker William Blane (played by Joseph Kilgour) is standing with clenched fists watching his wife Cherry O'Day (Betty Compson) in the embrace of Harvey...
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Elsie Ferguson publicity still for "The Avalanche."

Date: 1919
Description: Seated on a stool with an elbow resting on a dresser, Elsie Ferguson models a white silk gown in a publicity still for "The Avalanche." The French fashion ...
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Elsie Ferguson publicity still for "The Avalanche."

Date: 1919
Description: Standing looking back over her shoulder, Chichita (played by Elsie Ferguson) models a floor length black silk gown decorated with strings of black beads in...
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Elsie Ferguson publicity still for "The Avalanche."

Date: 1919
Description: Posed by a door with her hand on her hip, Chichita (played by Elsie Ferguson) models a floor length black silk gown decorated with strings of black beads i...
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Rudolph Valentino at the piano

Date: 1922
Description: Lord Hector Bracondale (played by Rudolph Valentino) sits in a reverie at a piano as a butler delivers a letter on a salver in a scene still for the silent...
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Gloria Swanson rescued by Rudolph Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson (as Theodora Fitzgerald) is carried in the arms of Rudolph Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) in her rescue from a snowy mountain ledge in a...
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Mabel Van Buren and Rudolf Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Mabel Van Buren (as Mrs. McBride) and Rudolf Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) sit side by side in a scene still for the silent drama "Beyond the Rocks."
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Wallace Reid, head and shoulders portrait

Date: 1920
Description: Head and shoulders studio publicity portrait of silent film star Wallace Reid in white tie and tails.

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