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Scene Still from The Jazz Singer

Date: 1927
Description: A still from the film The Jazz Singer showing Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson, and Warner Oland (Warner 1927).
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Scene Still from "The Blot"

Date: 1921
Description: Louis Calhern and Claire Windsor in "The Blot" (Lois Weber Productions).
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Scene still from The Blot

Date: 1921
Description: Publicity still from The Blot. Louis Calhern with flowers at the front door with Margaret McWade. (Lois Weber Productions, 1921).
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Dagmar Godowsky

Date: 12 28 1923
Description: Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress.
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Scene Still from The Twins of Suffering Creek

Date: 1920
Description: Scene still from The Twins of Suffering Creek a western starring William Russell. He is posed with Malcolm Cripe and Helen Stone as the twins (Fox 1...
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"The Poverty Of Riches" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Tom Donaldson (played by John Bowers) is dressing with the help of his wife Grace (Louise Lovely) in a scene still from "The Poverty of Riches" (Goldwyn 19...
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"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon in a still from "The Queen of Sheba," a silent William Fox mega-production of 1921. The...
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"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon stand before their thrones and face one another with attendants in the background.
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Baby Rose Marie

Date: 1929
Description: Baby Rose Marie in a ruffled dress in her trademark pose from the Vitaphone short Baby Rose Marie.
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Rudy Vallee with baton

Date: 1929
Description: Rudy Vallee conducts musicians as a woman sings in "Glorifying the American Girl," a Paramount musical from 1929.
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Rudolph Valentino and Rosa Rosanova

Date: 1922
Description: Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand.
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Colleen Moore and Joseph de Grasse

Date: 1925
Description: Colleen Moore as Selina Peake and Joseph de Grasse as her father in the screen version of Edna Ferber's film "So Big".
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Colleen Moore in "So Big"

Date: 1925
Description: A scene from the film "So Big" in which Jean Hersholt (left), Colleen Moore sitting on couch with a child laying his head in her lap, and Charlotte Merriam...
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Irene Castle and Robert Treman.

Date: 06 1922
Description: Original caption: "Irene Castle and her husband, Robert Treman, leaving London for Paris via the aerial route on Mrs. Castle's latest trip abroad."
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
Description: Seated three-quarter length portrait of Nita Naldi by Donald Biddle Keyes, 1922. Naldi has 12 silver Spanish combs in her hair that are brightly backlit. ...
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
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...
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
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...
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Nita Naldi Publicity Still

Date: 1922
Description: Waist-up seated portrait of Nita Naldi wearing pearls around her neck and in her hair. The photograph was made by Donald Biddle Keyes, most probably for th...
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Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi in a Scene Still from Blood and Sand

Date: 1922
Description: Juan Gallardo (played by Rudolph Valentino) plays the lute for Doña Sol de Guevara (Nita Naldi) in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sa...
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Nita Naldi and Rudolph Valentino in a Scene Still from Blood and Sand

Date: 1922
Description: Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) plays the harp for Juan Gallardo (Rudolph Valentino) in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sa...

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