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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bert Lytell poses in a prisoner's striped uniform in a publicity still for the silent film "Alias Jimmy Valentine" (Metro 1920). A dramatic shaft of light ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bert Lytell, his face illuminated by a small spotlight, poses in a prisoner's striped uniform in a publicity still for the silent film "Alias Jimmy Valenti... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | George Beban is in character as Pietro Massena, the Italian ditch digger in "The Alien." Beban wrote and acted in the stage version which was titled "The S... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Aleck Lindsay (played by Earle Fox) stands in a doorway with Yuri Chan, a Japanese college student (Tsuru Aoki), as a society dance goes on behind them in ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Emil Jannings, playing Georges Jacques Danton, strenuously courts a young woman who appears to be either the actress Charlotte Ander or Hilde Woerner (Hild... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Emil Jannings is costumed as the French Revolutionary leader Georges Danton in a scene still from the silent 1921 production "All for a Woman" (known in Eu... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this production still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Jack Mulhall and Marguerite Clark kneel and act a scene in front of a tapestry. In the foreground, Wa... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Seated on a cushion on the floor, Chester Franklin directs a tender scene with the child actor Mickey Moore (Michael D. Moore) and Mary Miles Minter in a p... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Will Rogers, playing the school teacher Sam Lyman at right, comforts Cullen Landis and a young Mary Jane Irving in a scene still for "Almost a Husband." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Zeb Sawyer, a wealthy mule dealer played by Ed Brady, is very interested in Eva McElwyn (Peggy Wood) who sits in a carriage with Sam Lyman (Will Rogers) in... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Walter Percival and May Allison in a scene still from "Almost Married." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Enid Markey, in a grass skirt, plays Kalaniweo, the Polynesian chief's daughter. Embracing her is Willard Mack playing David Harmon, a shipwrecked lawyer i... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bryant Washburn hands money to Anne Leigh while John Cossar, playing a private detective, observes from behind a piano in a scene still from "The Alster Ca... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Frank Mayo, wearing a white pith helmet, white shirt, and white jodhpurs, confronts a group of four sailor ruffians in a town on a South Sea island in a sc... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Camilla Joyt finds Perry Dayton on her doorstep (played by Margaret Loomis and Wallace Reid). Reid's character has returned from being shanghaied on a Paci... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Amarilly Jenkins's family arrives for tea at the mansion of Mrs. Stuyvesant Phillips. From left to right: Mrs. Stuyvesant Phillips (played by Ida Waterman)... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Americus Jenkins (played by Kate Price) nurses her sick son (Wesley Barry) in a tenement set for the silent film "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | From left to right, the actors in this scene still from "The Amateur Adventuress" are Eugene Pallette, Victor Potel, Allan Sears, Emmy Wehlen, and Lucille ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Marguerite Clark and A. Edward Sutherland in a scene still from "All of a Sudden Peggy." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall are talking outdoors in a rose garden. Both are dressed very fashion... |
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