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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Billy the pageboy (played by Jerry Devine) talks to Sherlock Holmes (John Barrymore), who is stretched out on a sofa smoking a pipe in a scene still from t... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Mae Gaston gives a baby doll to a poor flower girl as an older and more prosperous girl looks on in a scene still from the 1915 Reliance film "The ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Jennie Lee bends over a small flower girl who wears a kerchief on her head. They stand on the front porch of an impoverished house in this scene st... |
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