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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Clara Kimball Young, dressed in a pirate costume, with her parents Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern Kimball on either side of her. Th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino poses wearing very little but an elaborate breechcloth decorated with pearls for his role as the Maharajah of Dharmagar in "The Young Raj... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Esther Meyers (played by Vera Gordon) and her son Robert Meyers (Harry Benham) in a scene still from "Your Best Friend" (Rapf 1922). |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Esther Meyers (played by Vera Gordon) tries to reconcile her two sons, on the left Robert Meyers (Harry Benham) and on the right Harry Meyers (Stanley... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) talks to a cheese maker (Justus D. Barnes) in his shop in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The print ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hilda Nordstrom (played by Anita Stewart) comforts an aged woman in a wheelchair, probably Mother Nordstrom, in a scene still from "The Yellow Typhoon." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A missionary from New England, Winthrop Stark (played by William B. Davidson), professes his love to Princess Zara (Theda Bara in a grass skirt) on the Sou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This glamorous half-length publicity still shows Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woma... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The six year old child actor Francis Carpenter, as Aladdin, holds the lamp and looks up in a scene still from the 1917 William Fox production "Aladdin and ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Stanton and Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey) flirt through a screen in a publicity still for "Aladdin from Broadway." The... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Edith Storey) cautions Jack Stanton (Antonio Moreno) as he hangs on the rope of a well in a publicity still for "Aladdin from ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Amad (played by Otto Lederer in beard and turban) watches as his wife Faimeh (Edith Storey) threatens to do herself harm with a dagger in a scene still for... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Stanton (played by Antonio Moreno) is being married to Faimeh (Edith Storey) in a Turkish ceremony in a scene still from "Aladdin from Broadway." More... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Valentine (played by Robert Warwick) sleeps on the floor beside the bed of Rose Fay's baby sister (the child actress Madge Evans) in a heavily retouc... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The silent film actors Viola Dana and Bert Lytell, wearing costumes for different productions, knock their coffee cups together in a toast that is apparent... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bert Lytell poses in a prisoner's striped uniform in a publicity still for the silent film "Alias Jimmy Valentine" (Metro 1920). A dramatic shaft of light ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bert Lytell, his face illuminated by a small spotlight, poses in a prisoner's striped uniform in a publicity still for the silent film "Alias Jimmy Valenti... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | George Beban is in character as Pietro Massena, the Italian ditch digger in "The Alien." Beban wrote and acted in the stage version which was titled "The S... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Seated on a cushion on the floor, Chester Franklin directs a tender scene with the child actor Mickey Moore (Michael D. Moore) and Mary Miles Minter in a p... |
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