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Rudolph Valentino and Rosa Rosanova

Date: 1922
Description: Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand.
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Portrait of Billie Burke

Date: 1918
Description: Three-quarter length seated portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1918 Famous Players-Lasky film comedy The Make Believe Wife. T...
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John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a Parmount Artcraft Picture

Date: 1920
Description: John Barrymore, as Dr. Henry Jekyll, kisses the hand of Martha Mansfield, as Millicent Carew, in a production still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fa...
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John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a Parmount Artcraft Picture

Date: 1920
Description: John Barrymore, as Mr. Edward Hyde, rents a shabby room from an old woman in a production still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Famous Players-Lasky 1...
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John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a Parmount Artcraft Picture

Date: 1920
Description: A very handsome John Barrymore in top hat and cape, as Dr. Henry Jekyll, in a full-length publicity still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Famous Playe...
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Scene Still of John Barrymore and Brandon Hurst in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Date: 1920
Description: Dr. Henry Jekyll (played by John Barrymore) is confronted by Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst) in Jekyll's laboratory in the Famous Players-Lasky Corporatio...
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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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Scene Still with Richard Barthelmess and Nita Naldi

Date: 1921
Description: Youth (played by Richard Barthelmess) is given the full treatment by Temptation (Nita Naldi) in the 1921 George Fitzmaurice production Experience.
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Theodore Roberts, Mary MacLaren, and Wallace Reid in "Across the Continent"

Date: 1922
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...
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Betty Compson and Tom Moore in "Over the Border"

Date: 1922
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...
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Tom Moore, Betty Compson, and Jean De Briac in "Over the Border"

Date: 1922
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...
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Robert Warwick in "An Adventure in Hearts"

Date: 1919
Description: Captain Dieppe (played by Robert Warwick) sits gloomily on the arm of a chair in the Northern Italian castle of Count Fieramondi. In his hand is a distres...
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"Daughter of the Wolf" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Lila Lee (as Annette Ainsworth) confronts the camera with a loaded revolver in a scene still from the 1919 Famous Players silent film "A Daughter of the Wo...
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Kathlyn Williams and Bell & Howell Camera

Date: 1920
Description: Actress Kathlyn Williams wearing an evening dress sits in William C. de Mille's director's chair holding his small megaphone. Behind her is one of the Bell...
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J. Peverell Marley, Cecil B. DeMille, and Camera

Date: 1922
Description: J. Peverell Marley, cameraman (left), and Cecil B. DeMille, director (right), pose beside a Pathé motion picture camera mounted on a large tripod. An unide...
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Cameraman Alvin Wyckoff

Date: 1921
Description: Cinematographer Alvin Wyckoff stands next to his Bell & Howell model 2709 motion picture camera on a set for the Cecil B. DeMille silent feature "Fool's Pa...
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"A Liberty Bond Plea" Scene Still

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Charles Ray in a Liberty Loan Film by courtesy Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and Thomas H. Ince. Distributed by the National Associat...
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Scene Still with Leslie Casey and Wallace Reid

Date: 1922
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...
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Milton Sills and Dorothy Dalton

Date: 1922
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...
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Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson

Date: 1921
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...

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