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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A crowded scene still from "Intolerance": Christ at the wedding at Cana with Howard Gaye as Christ, and with Bessie Love and George Walsh as the bride and ... |
| 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: | 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The Reverend David Burroughs (played by Leslie Casey) has a serious discussion with William Burroughs (Wallace Reid) in a scene still from "The World's Cha... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Roger Davis (left, played by Frank McGlynn Sr.) and Effie Dorgan (played by Miriam Nesbitt dressed as a nun and holding a child) with an unidentified actor... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) carries his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in his arms. She has been mesmerized by Nazzer Singh the Hindu hypnotist (... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Owen Moore, costumed as a minister, talks to Florence Lawrence by a gate in front of a house in a scene still from a silent drama, possibly "The Redemption... |
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