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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class. |
| 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Actors John Gilbert and Ramon Novarro compare their moustaches. Gilbert is in costume. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of actor John Gilbert's Spanish-style house at 1400 Tower Grove Road. There is a tower on the hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert sitting on a couch in the living room of his Beverly Hills mansion. He is staring at the fireplace which has a light fixture inside it. |
| Date: | 01 1927 |
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| Description: | John Gilbert and Greta Garbo pose for photograph at the premiere of their film "The Flesh and the Devil." She is wearing a fur coat, white gloves and is ho... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the film "The Show." John Gilbert is seen in profile — he is wearing a hat, striped shirt, and a scarf around his neck. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor John Gilbert in "The Cossacks." He is looking towards the left and smiling, and is wearing a big bushy hat and holding a gun at hi... |
| Date: | 06 1924 |
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| Description: | Lew Cody, Barbara La Marr, and Paul Bern attend the premiere of Norma Talmadge's film "Secrets" in Hollywood. The men are wearing tuxedos and Barbara wears... |
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