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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bob Hildreth (a sculptor played by Frank Mayo) has designs on his student Lois Page (played by Ethel Clayton) in this scene still from "Easy Money." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Lillian Gish, in costume as Henriette Girard, and Dorothy Gish, as Louise Girard, in a publicity photograph for D.W. Griffith's 1921 production "Orphans of... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Romola (played by Lillian Gish) and Tito Melema (William Powell) standing before the altar during their wedding in a scene still for Henry King's productio... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress poses full-length in an air-brushed publicity photograph. The caption printed on the back of the print reads:... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Romeo (played by Harry Hilliard), on his knees, clasps Juliet's (Theda Bara) hand in a romantic scene still in the Fox production "Romeo and Juliet" (Fox 1... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The famous German actor Emil Jannings is on the roof of his California home posing on a rowing machine. The original caption stamped on the back of the pri... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Paramount Pictures studio portrait of Emil Jannings in coat and tie with a cigar in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Close-up, low-key publicity portrait of Emil Jannings in shirt and tie holding a cigar to his mouth. |
| 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: | 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The boxer Pat Glendon, Jr. (played by Reginald Denny) and socialite Maude Sangster (Mabel Julienne Scott) glare at each other in a scene still from "The Ab... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The child actor George Stone is embraced by Norma Talmadge in a scene still perhaps from the 1916 silent film "Martha's Vindication." Other films in which ... |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. Jane Bixby (played by Florence Lawrence), wearing a white duster and with her medical bag by her feet, wraps a bandage around a child's ankle on the po... |
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