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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt posed in the "Egyptian" style. She wears an intricate dress decorated with metallic ribbons and a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Nita Naldi wearing a long pearl necklace and beaded dress. The photograph was probably made by Donald Biddle Keyes as publicity for... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Nita Naldi standing by a Spanish-style chair. The photograph was probably made by Donald Biddle Keyes as publicity for the 1922 Par... |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke raises a glass posed as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre i... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke carries a tea tray as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre in ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | The cast members Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put M... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put Me in My Little Canoe... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appeara... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Johnston & Hoffmann publicity photograph of Billie Burke in a lacy dress with her hair piled on top of her head. Reproduced as a postcard by J. Beagles & C... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders publicity portrait of Billie Burke resting her cheek on her hand. She wears long white gloves and a large lacy white hat. Published as a... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Lenore Ulric draws her bow crouched on a papier-mâché boulder. She starred as Wetona in the 1916 Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Broadway star Lenore Ulric, dressed and made-up for the stage, listens to an early portable radio receiver. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, stars of Columbia Pictures' "Hellcats of the Navy." |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Priscilla Lane, and Wayne Morris in a publicity still for Warner Brothers' film "Brother Rat." |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan in a scene from the Warner Brothers' film "Kings Row." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl... |
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