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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Don Ameche poses with his junior basketball team at Franklin School. He was ten-years-old and captain of the team. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Scene still from The Twins of Suffering Creek a western starring William Russell. He is posed with Malcolm Cripe and Helen Stone as the twins (Fox 1... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A classical Romanesque basilica. Facing southwest from Chase Avenue, just south of Lincoln Avenue. Pedestrians are near the entrance. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "This boy's parents never could see moving picture actors until Antonio Moreno rented the bungalow next to theirs in Hollywood. Now they... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Antonio Moreno with his dog, Don Juan, sitting up on his haunches, and a friend. The three are rehearsing Tony's new serial, just comme... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "It's Blanche Sweet's own dog, but a neighbor's child." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Marshall Neilan, the director of Don't Ever Marry (1920), and Marjorie Daw, the female lead. Original caption: "NIX ON THE FANCY FOOD, SAYS MARSHA... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Escape artist Harry Houdini with co-star Lila Lee in the silent film, "Terror Island," a Paramount release. The climax consists of Houdini saving Lee from ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Justine Spotiswood (played by Irene Castle wearing a turban with feathers) and Cosmo Spotiswood (William P. Carleton) gaze into each others eyes in a scene... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Cosmo Spotiswood (played by William P. Carleton on the right) confronts a man who has designs on his wife Justine (played by Irene Castle). Castle is dress... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In a backstage dressing room, the straight-laced and innocent Justine Spencer (played by Irene Castle) is shocked to find that her mother (Augusta Anderson... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Fox movie "The Tattlers," featuring Madlaine Traverse (playing Bess Rutherford) posing in an evening dress. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the silent film actress Mollie King (Alexander) holding her infant son Kenneth Deedes Alexander Jr. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Conrad Nagel sits on a porch swing with his infant daughter Ruth Margaret Nagel on his knee and his wife Ruth Helms by his side reading a ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Wallace Reid, Paramount star, his wife, formerly Dorothy Davenport, and their son William Wallace Reid Jr., otherwise known as Bill, at ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Wally Reid and Billy ready for a swimming lesson in the pool at the beautiful Reid home." |
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