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Nita Naldi in a Scene Still from Blood and Sand

Date: 1922
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...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
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...
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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 ...
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Actors and Director John Ford

Date: 1956
Description: Director John Ford (in glasses and a hat) on the set of the film "The Searchers," with actors including John Wayne (left) and Doris del Rio. Behind them st...
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"The Kiss" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Luise D'Auvergne (Marguerite Courtot) and Jean-Marie (Owen Moore) board a seaplane in a production still from the Famous Players film "The Kiss."
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"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" Movie Still

Date: 1956
Description: Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a...
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"Bigger Than Life" Movie Still

Date: 1956
Description: Dramaic scene still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "Bigger Than Life," featuring Walter Matthau (playing Wally Gibbs), James Mason (playing Ed Avery)...
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"Shock Corridor" Movie Still

Date: 1963
Description: Movie still from the Allied Artists film "Shock Corridor," featuring James Best (playing Stuart), Peter Breck (playing Johnny Barrett), and Hari Rhodes (pl...
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"The Trip" Movie Still

Date: 1967
Description: Scene still from the American International film "The Trip," featuring Bruce Dern (playing John) and Peter Fonda (playing Paul Groves). Dern's character (i...
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"Sherlock Holmes" Scene Still

Date: 1922
Description: Billy the pageboy (played by Jerry Devine) talks to Sherlock Holmes (John Barrymore), who is stretched out on a sofa smoking a pipe in a scene still from t...
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John Gilbert with Pipe

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of actor John Gilbert with a pipe in his mouth.
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Edward Everett Horton Publicity Still

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Description: Publicity still of actor Edward Everett Horton, posing with a cigarette.
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Lewis Rachmil

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Description: Indoor portrait of Lewis Rachmil, the producer of the television show Men Into Space. He is wearing a suit and is leaning on his knee and holding a ...
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"Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund"

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s...
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Clara Kimball Young, John St. Polis, and Edwin August

Date: 1916
Description: Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young in a flowing white gown) shrinks back in alarm as Fedia (John St. Polis) receives a terrific right punch to t...
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Pauline Frederick

Date: 1916
Description: Pauline Frederick as Myra, wearing a kimono, reacts to the signs of her dissipation scattered on a table: playing cards, cigarettes, whiskey, the remains o...
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Publicity Still of Viola Dana and Bert Lytell

Date: 1920
Description: The silent film actors Viola Dana and Bert Lytell, wearing costumes for different productions, knock their coffee cups together in a toast that is apparent...
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Mae Gaston and two little girls in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Actress Mae Gaston gives a baby doll to a poor flower girl as an older and more prosperous girl looks on in a scene still from the 1915 Reliance film "The ...
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Jennie Lee and a small girl in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Actress Jennie Lee bends over a small flower girl who wears a kerchief on her head. They stand on the front porch of an impoverished house in this scene st...
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Frank Keenan in a Scene Still for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Louisiana doctor Dudley Duprez, played by Frank Keenan, makes a fist and glares angrily in a scene still for "The Bride of Hate," a drama of miscegenation ...

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