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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1918 Famous Players-Lasky film comedy The Make Believe Wife. T... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1916 Kleine film Gloria's Romance. Her costume is a modified gaucho outfit, with hat, cape... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Kid Broad outside having a conversation. Burke has on athletic wear, bloomers and a sweater. This picture may have been... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of J. Searle Dawley, Walter Hiers, and Billie Burke riding on top of a New York bus. Dawley is on the far left. Hiers sits next to Burke. An unkno... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | John Barrymore, as Dr. Henry Jekyll, kisses the hand of Martha Mansfield, as Millicent Carew, in a production still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fa... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | John Barrymore, as Mr. Edward Hyde, rents a shabby room from an old woman in a production still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Famous Players-Lasky 1... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A very handsome John Barrymore in top hat and cape, as Dr. Henry Jekyll, in a full-length publicity still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Famous Playe... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Dr. Henry Jekyll (played by John Barrymore) is confronted by Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst) in Jekyll's laboratory in the Famous Players-Lasky Corporatio... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Juan Gallardo (played by Rudolph Valentino) plays the lute for Doña Sol de Guevara (Nita Naldi) in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sa... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) plays the harp for Juan Gallardo (Rudolph Valentino) in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sa... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Youth (played by Richard Barthelmess) is given the full treatment by Temptation (Nita Naldi) in the 1921 George Fitzmaurice production Experience. |
| Date: | 02 1919 |
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| Description: | Four of the founders of United Artists, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Lenore Ulric as Paula Figueroa in the 1916 Pallas film The Heart of Paula. (She dropped the H from Ulrich sometime ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for the 1915 Triumph film release The Better Woman, Lenore Ulric wears a grass skirt and a quantity of beads. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Lenore Ulric lounging on a medieval-looking chair. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Louise Vale holding roses, by the White Studio of New York. She was a silent film actress who died from the Spanish Flu in M... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Vola Vale wearing a polka dot dress and dark straw hat in a portrait by the Hartsook Studio. She inscribed it to the editor and publish... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Vola Vale, silent film actress who was a leading ingenue for the Balboa Amusement Producing Company. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino stands with his hands on his hips and wears a white turban in a publicity still from The Son of the Sheik (UA, 1926). |
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