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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...
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Publicity Still of Marion Davies

Date: 1922
Description: Left profile studio portrait of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the 1922 silent drama "Beauty's Worth." She wears strands of pearls and a pearl a...
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Sessue Hayakawa and Beatrice LaPlante in a scene still for "The Beggar Prince"

Date: 1920
Description: In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar Prince, the Prince of the Island of Desire (played by Sessue Hayakawa) and Olala (Beatrice LaPlante) w...
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Publicity still of Theda Bara

Date: 1918
Description: In this publicity still for the 1918 Fox silent drama "The She-Devil," Theda Bara poses outdoors with cherries hanging from her lips and four giant pom-pom...
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Lottie Briscoe wearing western wear in a publicity still

Date: 1914
Description: In a publicity still for the Lubin silent film series "The Beloved Adventurer," Lottie Briscoe wears a corduroy western dress, boots, and a cowboy hat.
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Theda Bara and another actor in a scene still

Date: 1918
Description: Lolette, the Spanish peasant girl (played by Theda Bara) uses a knife to defend herself from a middle aged man in a scene still for the silent drama "The S...
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Scene still with Jack McDonald, David Butler, and Zasu Pitts

Date: 1919
Description: In a scruffy flower garden, Peter Van Alstyne (played by David Butler) and Nancy Scroggs (Zasu Pitts) cast loving eyes at each other while Nancy's father E...
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Louis Haines and Pearl White seated in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: The banker J. Peter Weathersby (played by Louis Haines grinning with a cigar in his hand) sits beside Sally Marrio (Pearl White) who is delivering a pair o...
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Pearl White publicity still with fur coat

Date: 1921
Description: Pearl White, in character as Sally Marrio, wears a chinchilla coat in a publicity still for the silent melodrama "Beyond Price."
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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino studio publicity still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson, as Theodora Fitzgerald, and Rudolph Valentino, as Lord Hector Bracondale, in a full-length seated Keyes studio publicity still for the 1922...
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Gloria Swanson rescued by Rudolph Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson (as Theodora Fitzgerald) is carried in the arms of Rudolph Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) in her rescue from a snowy mountain ledge in a...
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Mabel Van Buren and Rudolf Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Mabel Van Buren (as Mrs. McBride) and Rudolf Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) sit side by side in a scene still for the silent drama "Beyond the Rocks."
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Mae Marsh publicity still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: In this publicity still for D.W. Griffith's silent drama "The Birth of a Nation," Mae Marsh is in Southern antebellum costume for her role as Flora Cameron...
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Mabel Van Buren studio publicity portrait

Date: 1913
Description: Head and shoulders studio publicity portrait of Selig Polyscope silent film star Mabel Van Buren, 1913.
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Actress Lottie Briscoe posed with a telephone

Date: 1917
Description: Silent film actress Lottie Briscoe in a studio publicity photograph posed sitting at a small table with a candlestick telephone, a vase with flowers, and s...
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Picking Fruit

Date: 1949
Description: Alfred Lunt standing on a wooden ladder and picking plums from a tree in the Ten Chimneys orchard. Lynn Fontanne stands below holding a basket to collect t...
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Aching Youth Poster

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Description: Photograph of a poster for the 1928 film Aching Youth starring Charley Chase. Chase stands at the center of the poster with his hands on his hips. H...
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Rocketship X-M scene still in the rocket

Date: 1950
Description: A scene still for "Rocketship X-M" with, from left to right, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian, Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, and John Emery in the rocket's engine...
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Mike Nichols and Rose Arrick

Date: 1962
Description: Publicity photograph, for the 1962 play "A Matter of Position," of Mike Nichols and Rose Arrick hugging. They are both looking off to one side.
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Barbara La Marr at Film Premiere

Date: 06 1924
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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