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"Sherlock Holmes" Scene Still
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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 the silent "Sherlock Holmes" (Goldwyn 1922).
1922
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
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W013M7D
WHi 90483
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