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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand. |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino dressed as the matador Juan Gallardo in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sand. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Jen Galbraith (played by Betty Compson) is embraced by Sergeant Flaherty of the Canadian Mounties (Tom Moore) in a snowy wilderness by a rushing river in a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Flaherty (played by Tom Moore) looks on suspiciously as Jen Galbraith (Betty Compson) talks to Pretty Pierre (Jean D... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Marguerite Clark looks through the viewfinder of a Pathé motion picture camera in a publicity still. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The Reverend David Burroughs (played by Leslie Casey) has a serious discussion with William Burroughs (Wallace Reid) in a scene still from "The World's Cha... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Iris Champneys (played by Dorothy Dalton) comes up behind Clement Gaunt (Milton Sills) apparently to sneak a small money bag into the pocket of his corduro... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for the silent drama "A Woman of Impulse," Leonora, the opera singer known as "La Vecci" (played by Lina Cavalieri) sits in her backstage ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for "Women's Weapons," Nicolas Elliot (played by Elliot Dexter) sits at his desk looking stunned. His wife Anne Elliot (Ethel Clayton) sit... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) carries his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in his arms in this scene still from Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 production "T... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The young chorus girl Eileen (played by Lila Lee) is in the embrace of the millionaire Larry Taylor (Jack Holt) in an outdoor publicity still for William d... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Eileen the chorus girl (played by Lila Lee) has fallen in love with a millionaire (Jack Holt, on the left). Fearing for her, the stage doorkeeper Pop O'Mal... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this production still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Jack Mulhall and Marguerite Clark kneel and act a scene in front of a tapestry. In the foreground, Wa... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall are talking outdoors in a rose garden. Both are dressed very fashion... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | At least fifteen actors wearing formal evening wear pose in the drawing room of a mansion in this scene still for the silent film "Anna Ascends." In the fi... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The banker William Blane (played by Joseph Kilgour) is standing with clenched fists watching his wife Cherry O'Day (Betty Compson) in the embrace of Harvey... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Seated on a stool with an elbow resting on a dresser, Elsie Ferguson models a white silk gown in a publicity still for "The Avalanche." The French fashion ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Standing looking back over her shoulder, Chichita (played by Elsie Ferguson) models a floor length black silk gown decorated with strings of black beads in... |
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