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Mrs. Langtry in "As in a Looking-Glass"

Date: 1887
Description: Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ...
Poster

Poster for "The Shaughraun"

Date: 1875
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc...
Print

"Black Like Me" Lobby Card

Date: 1964
Description: Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) in a diner with two unidentified a...
Photograph

John Gilbert as a Baby with His Mother

Date: 1898
Description: Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ...
Photograph

Portrait of John Gilbert

Date: 1918
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of actor John Gilbert wearing a tuxedo.
Print

"Double Indemnity" Lobby Card

Date: 1944
Description: Lobby card for the Paramount film "Double Indemnity," featuring a tinted scene from the movie, with leads Barbara Stanwyck (as Phyllis Dietrichson), Fred M...
Photograph

Tourists Visit Universal City

Date: 1916
Description: Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ...
Photograph

Publicity Still of Marion Davies

Date: 1922
Description: Full face, quarter-length studio portrait of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the 1922 silent drama "Beauty's Worth." She wears several strands of...
Photograph

Raymond Bloomer, Marion Davies, and five other actors in a scene still

Date: 1919
Description: Jack Bronson (played by Raymond Bloomer) has been beaten senseless in an underworld bar. Violet Gray (played by Marion Davies dressed in a Salvation Army u...
Photograph

Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, and Gertrude Astor, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Lord Hector Bracondale (played by Rudolph Valentino) has a heart to heart talk with his mother Lady Bracondale (Edythe Chapman) as Morella Winmarleigh (Ger...
Photograph

David Howard and Mary Miles Minter scene still

Date: 1918
Description: At lunch in a restaurant, Cuthbert King (played by David Howard) asks his sister Phyllis King (Mary Miles Minter) for a loan to pay his gambling debts in a...
Photograph

Alan Forrest and Mary Miles Minter in a restaurant scene still

Date: 1918
Description: As Grayson Blair (played by Alan Forrest) is helped with his coat, he notices Phyllis King (Mary Miles Minter) sitting alone at a table in a restaurant in ...

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