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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The actors Irene Hunt and Vester Pegg in a scene still from "Added Fuel." She wears street clothes, a heavy coat and hat, and carries a purse. He is behind... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | William Lowrey (left), Vester Pegg, looking quite worried at center, and an unknown actor in "Added Fuel." They wear suits, hats, and stiff collars. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The butler (played by Philip Gastrock) finds, or plants, muddy shoes next to a sleeping man (Vester Pegg). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) throttles a man as Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) looks on in alarm in this scene still for "The Adorable Savage" (Unive... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) holds Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) by the wrist as they stand calf-deep in the surf on the island of Fiji in a scene s... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A caveman (played by Elliott Dexter) has defeated a rival and thus wins the interest of the Mischevous One, a young cavewoman played by Julia Faye in this ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Three young cavemen--cavepersons?--react in fear to an offscreen threat. From left to right the actors are Anna Q. Nilsson, Pauline Garon, and Theodore Kos... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Milton Sills as a caveman dressed in fur and armed with a stone club in a prehistoric forest in Cecil B. De Mill's silent film production "Adam's Rib" (Fam... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Phyllis Blake (played by Corinne Griffith) dressed as a man in a salt-and-pepper suit and bow tie. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | The actress Corinne Griffith posing with an English bulldog and an open one seat runabout automobile in a publicity still for the silent film "The Adventur... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Captain Dieppe (played by Robert Warwick) sits gloomily on the arm of a chair in the Northern Italian castle of Count Fieramondi. In his hand is a distres... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Count Fieramondi (played by Juan de la Cruz) and Captain Dieppe (Robert Warwick) sit at a table in the count's castle having a man to man talk. Behind them... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the Betzwood Film Co. silent film "Speedy Meade," featuring Louis Bennison as Speedy Meade. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the American Film Co. silent film "The Intrusion of Isabel," featuring Alan Forrest (playing Jack Craig) and Mary Miles Minter (playing Is... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Arnold Lucy (playing a valet) wraps a towel around Wesley Barry (Speck Brown) who has just gotten out of the bath in a scene still from "School Days" (Warn... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Speck Brown (played by Wesley Barry) wearing fancy new city clothes--a Chesterfield coat, checked trousers, spats, cane, white gloves, and a straw boater--... |
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