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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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Celestia the Goddess (played by Anita Stewart) embraces Tom Barclay (Earle Williams) in a production still for the Vitagraph serial "The Goddess." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Promotional postcard for the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin," featuring cameo photographs of the stars Francis Ford (as Count Frederick) and Grace ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) sits forlornly on the straw in a dungeon in the kingdom of Grahaffen in a scene still from Episode 7 "Between Two Fires... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Grace Cunard sits on a bed and frets while a maid looks on in a publicity still for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin" for which Cunard was both writer... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group shot of the cast and crew for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin," taken after shooting the final scene. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford are in the ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) and Count Frederick (played by Francis Ford) stand in a dungeon and stare off-camera in horror in a scene still from Ep... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A stooped old man with a long beard approaches Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) with some large keys in a scene still from Episode 8 "The Prison in the ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford in the title role, in costume, reading the book by Kate Dougla... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the Betzwood Film Co. silent film "Speedy Meade," featuring Louis Bennison as Speedy Meade. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the American Film Co. silent film "The Intrusion of Isabel," featuring Alan Forrest (playing Jack Craig) and Mary Miles Minter (playing Is... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) stands preaching next to Jesus (also played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a lamb in his arms. This elabo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915). |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Arnold Lucy (playing a valet) wraps a towel around Wesley Barry (Speck Brown) who has just gotten out of the bath in a scene still from "School Days" (Warn... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Speck Brown (played by Wesley Barry) wearing fancy new city clothes--a Chesterfield coat, checked trousers, spats, cane, white gloves, and a straw boater--... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Royal Beaudry (played by Charles Ray) peers cautious from the open door of a rough stone building with a revolver in his hand in a scene still from "The Sh... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Half-length promotional still of John Barrymore playing Sherlock Holmes in a night scene from "Sherlock Holmes' (Goldwyn 1922). |
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