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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Haystacks and Steeples". |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat... |
| 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: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Wife (Janet Gaynor) flees from the Man (George O'Brien) after he has tried to kill her, in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Fox, 1927). |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston) urges the Man (George O'Brien) to kill his wife so he can run away to the city with her, in Sunrise: A Son... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The characters Lorna Barton (played by Ethel Grandin) and Bill Bradshaw (William Cavanaugh) in a cafe scene from Traffic in Souls (1913, IMP). |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik. (Paramount 1921). |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Viola Dana, autographed to Delight Evans who was a critic writing for Photoplay, Screenland, and the New York Morning Tele... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | On the set of "The Road to Divorce" (Universal, 1920). Original caption: "Mr. Harry Nuttall, of England, member of the British Parliament from Manchest... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Lorelei (played by Louise Lovely) playfully threatens Julie (Carmel Meyers) with a handful of seaweed as a group of sirens look on in the 1917 Universal pr... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Backlit publicity still of Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Dorothy Gish. |
| Date: | 11 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Inspiration Pictures publicity photograph of the Gish sisters and Richard Barthelemess on board a ship. Original caption: AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS L... |
| Date: | 01 02 1923 |
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| Description: | Director D. W. Griffith greets actress Mae Marsh by tipping his hat. |
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