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Don Ameche and His Junior Basketball Team

Date: 1920
Description: Don Ameche poses with his junior basketball team at Franklin School. He was ten-years-old and captain of the team.
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Jack Carson

Date: 1920
Description: Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane.
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Frederic March on Fraternity House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class.
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Publicity Still of Nita Naldi in an Egyptian Pose

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Nita Naldi, the original Aphrodite girl, who will appear in a Johnny Dooley comedy at the Pantages next week." Naldi appeared in ...
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Rudolph Valentino and Dorothy Phillips, Scene Still

Date: 1920
Description: Rudolph Valentino, playing Juliantino Visconti, and Dorothy Phillips, as Aurora Meredith, in a tense embrace from the 1920 Universal production Once to ...
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Rudolph Valentino and Dorothy Phillips, Scene Still

Date: 1920
Description: Rudolph Valentino, playing Juliantino Visconti, is offered money by Dorothy Phillips, as Aurora Meredith, wearig an elaborate oriental costume in the 1920 ...
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Ruth Stonehouse and her Cat, Leo

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Ruth Stonehouse, one of the featured players in the all star cast of The Hope, the latest in Metro's series of pictures founded ...
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Marshall Neilan and Marjorie Daw publicity still

Date: 1920
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...
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Houdini in Chains in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
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...
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Houdini on a Rope in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
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...
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Houdini and Lila Lee in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
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 ...
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Irene Castle and William P. Carleton in "The Amateur Wife"

Date: 1920
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...
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Irene Castle and William P. Carleton in "The Amateur Wife"

Date: 1920
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...
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Irene Castle and Augusta Anderson in "The Amateur Wife"

Date: 1920
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...
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Scene Still from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"

Date: 1920
Description: From left to right Werner Krauss (playing Dr. Caligari), Conrad Veidt (as Cesare the somnambulist), and Lil Dagover (as Jane Olsen) in a scene from the exp...
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"The Tattlers" Movie Still

Date: 1920
Description: Movie still from the Fox movie "The Tattlers," featuring Madlaine Traverse (playing Bess Rutherford) posing in an evening dress.
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Jack Perrin and Edith Roberts in "The Adorable Savage"

Date: 1920
Description: Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) throttles a man as Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) looks on in alarm in this scene still for "The Adorable Savage" (Unive...
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Jack Perrin and Edith Roberts in "The Adorable Savage"

Date: 1920
Description: Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) holds Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) by the wrist as they stand calf-deep in the surf on the island of Fiji in a scene s...
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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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"Harriet and the Piper" Production Still

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Anita Stewart and her director, Bertram Bracken, taken between filming of scenes at Anita's home."

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