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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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Portrait of Billie Burke

Date: 1918
Description: Three-quarter length seated portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1918 Famous Players-Lasky film comedy The Make Believe Wife. T...
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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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John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a Parmount Artcraft Picture

Date: 1920
Description: John Barrymore, as Mr. Edward Hyde, rents a shabby room from an old woman in a production still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Famous Players-Lasky 1...
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Nita Naldi in a Scene Still from Blood and Sand

Date: 1922
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...
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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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Theodore Roberts, Mary MacLaren, and Wallace Reid in "Across the Continent"

Date: 1922
Description: John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au...
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Betty Compson and Tom Moore in "Over the Border"

Date: 1922
Description: Jen Galbraith (played by Betty Compson) is embraced by Sergeant Flaherty of the Canadian Mounties (Tom Moore) in a snowy wilderness by a rushing river in a...
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Tom Moore, Betty Compson, and Jean De Briac in "Over the Border"

Date: 1922
Description: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Flaherty (played by Tom Moore) looks on suspiciously as Jen Galbraith (Betty Compson) talks to Pretty Pierre (Jean D...
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Elliott Dexter and Julia Faye in "Adam's Rib"

Date: 1923
Description: A caveman (played by Elliott Dexter) has defeated a rival and thus wins the interest of the Mischevous One, a young cavewoman played by Julia Faye in this ...
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"Daughter of the Wolf" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Lila Lee (as Annette Ainsworth) confronts the camera with a loaded revolver in a scene still from the 1919 Famous Players silent film "A Daughter of the Wo...
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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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Milton Sills and Dorothy Dalton

Date: 1922
Description: Iris Champneys (played by Dorothy Dalton) comes up behind Clement Gaunt (Milton Sills) apparently to sneak a small money bag into the pocket of his corduro...
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Robert Cain, Raymond Bloomer, and Lina Cavalieri scene still

Date: 1918
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "A Woman of Impulse," Leonora, the opera singer known as "La Vecci" (played by Lina Cavalieri) sits in her backstage ...
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Elliott Dexter and Ethel Clayton

Date: 1918
Description: In a scene still for "Women's Weapons," Nicolas Elliot (played by Elliot Dexter) sits at his desk looking stunned. His wife Anne Elliot (Ethel Clayton) sit...
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Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson

Date: 1921
Description: Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) carries his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in his arms in this scene still from Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 production "T...
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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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"After the Show" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Eileen the chorus girl (played by Lila Lee) has fallen in love with a millionaire (Jack Holt, on the left). Fearing for her, the stage doorkeeper Pop O'Mal...
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Production Still with Jack Mulhall and Marguerite Clark

Date: 1920
Description: In this production still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Jack Mulhall and Marguerite Clark kneel and act a scene in front of a tapestry. In the foreground, Wa...

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