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Valda Valkyrien and Frederick Warde
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A scene still of Valda Valkyrien playing a young girl, possibly in the 1916 Thanhouser production of Silas Marner. If that is correct, the older actor is Frederick Warde who played the title role.
1916
Thanhouser Film Corporation
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WHi 69957
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Valda Valkyrien, publicity still with shark
1917
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Valda Valkyrien
1916
Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark."
Valda Valkyrien in a Scene Still
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Second Thanhouser Studio
1914
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Hands Up in a Scene Still from "Zudora"
1914
Actor Harry Benham covers two ruffians with two pistols as Marguerite Snow ministers to an insensible young man on the floor in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora."
