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| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card photograph by Scholl of Philadelphia of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew who married in December 1879. Successful actors, their c... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert and boxer/author Jim Tully shake hands. Each is smiling and wearing a boxing glove on one hand. This publicity still may be a reference ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert and Greta Garbo shake hands and smile at one another their first day on the set of the movie "Queen Christina." She is wearing a fur coa... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert sits next to Marlene Dietrich at a party thrown by Clifton Webb. They are both in formal dress. There are empty dinner plates and a bask... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Wallace Reid sits at the foot of a Christmas tree with a teddy bear and his young son Wallace Reid, Jr. in his lap. A dog rests on the fl... |
| Date: | 05 31 1921 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Constance Talmadge, Natalie Talmadge, Mrs. Talmadge, and Norma Talmadge at the Talmadge-Keaton wedding at Norma Talmadge's estate at Bay... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Princess Alexia (played by Enid Markey in an elaborately decorated dress and wearing a crown) marches arm in arm with Dick Mason (George Walsh) in a scene ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Lord Raa (played by Jack Holt wearing a monocle) sits beside Mary MacNeill (Katherine MacDonald in a white dress and hat) who is looking miserable in a sce... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A sombre wedding party is gathered before the minister at the altar in a scene still for the silent film "The Barricade." Hope Merrill, the bride played by... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the silent drama "Betty of Graystone," David Lockwood (played by Owen Moore) weds Betty (Dorothy Gish) in a home ceremony with a pr... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from 1913 heavily retouched for the July 7, 1928, issue of Liberty (magazine). The original caption reads: "Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenp... |
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| Description: | Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act... |
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