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| 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: | 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: | Full face, quarter-length studio portrait of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the 1922 silent drama "Beauty's Worth." She wears several strands of... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Jack Bronson (played by Raymond Bloomer) has been beaten senseless in an underworld bar. Violet Gray (played by Marion Davies dressed in a Salvation Army u... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Lord Hector Bracondale (played by Rudolph Valentino) has a heart to heart talk with his mother Lady Bracondale (Edythe Chapman) as Morella Winmarleigh (Ger... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | At lunch in a restaurant, Cuthbert King (played by David Howard) asks his sister Phyllis King (Mary Miles Minter) for a loan to pay his gambling debts in a... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | As Grayson Blair (played by Alan Forrest) is helped with his coat, he notices Phyllis King (Mary Miles Minter) sitting alone at a table in a restaurant in ... |
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