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"The Broken Coin" Promotional Postcard

Date: 1915
Description: Promotional postcard for the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin," featuring cameo photographs of the stars Francis Ford (as Count Frederick) and Grace ...
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"The Broken Coin" Publicity Still

Date: 1915
Description: Grace Cunard sits on a bed and frets while a maid looks on in a publicity still for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin" for which Cunard was both writer...
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"The Broken Coin" Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) and Count Frederick (played by Francis Ford) stand in a dungeon and stare off-camera in horror in a scene still from Ep...
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"The Broken Coin" Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: A stooped old man with a long beard approaches Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) with some large keys in a scene still from Episode 8 "The Prison in the ...
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Jack Perrin and Edith Roberts in "The Adorable Savage"

Date: 1920
Description: Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) throttles a man as Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) looks on in alarm in this scene still for "The Adorable Savage" (Unive...
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Jack Perrin and Edith Roberts in "The Adorable Savage"

Date: 1920
Description: Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) holds Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) by the wrist as they stand calf-deep in the surf on the island of Fiji in a scene s...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) stands preaching next to Jesus (also played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a lamb in his arms. This elabo...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915).
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"A Daughter of Caliente" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Original caption on reverse of print reads: "Principals in Corsican drama, 'A Daughter of Caliente.' Douglas Gerrard, producer and actor and his leading l...
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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
Description: Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi...
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John Ford

Date: 1915
Description: John Ford in a detail from a group portrait of the cast and crew of the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin". John, then about twenty-one years old, act...
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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
Description: Grace Cunard (playing Kitty Grey) slips a note to Harry Mann as he examines a book with Francis Ford (playing Count Frederick) in a scene still from the Un...
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"The Double Standard" Production Still

Date: 1917
Description: Original caption: "Director Phillips Smalley (third from the left), rehearsing his players in Brand Whitlock's story being filmed at Universal City. The ju...
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Universal Studios Grand Opening

Date: 03 15 1915
Description: Gathered for the grand opening of Universal City are the general manager of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Isadore Bernstein (in a white belted ...
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Universal Studios Grand Opening

Date: 03 15 1915
Description: At the grand opening of Universal City are the general manager of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Isadore Bernstein (in a white belted Norfolk su...
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Billy Sullivan Boxing

Date: 1923
Description: Billy Sullivan (right) boxes a larger man in "Fighting Mad," perhaps one of "Leather Pushers" series of Universal films made in 1923 and 1924. Billy Sulliv...
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Billy Sullivan and Spectators

Date: 1923
Description: Billy Sullivan (right) has knocked his opponent to the mat in "Fighting Mad," perhaps one of the "Leather Pushers" series of Universal films made in 1923 ...
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Scene Still of Frank Mayo

Date: 1922
Description: The boxer Tom Harper (played by Frank Mayo) is in his corner between rounds with his corner men. Behind them is lively crowd of male spectators in a scene ...
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"Afraid to Fight" Scene Still

Date: 1922
Description: The boxer Tom Harper (played by Frank Mayo at left) has a tense meeting with his opponent Slick Morrisey (Al Kaufman) before their fight. They are flanked ...
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Scene Still with Frank Mayo

Date: 1922
Description: Frank Mayo, wearing a white pith helmet, white shirt, and white jodhpurs, confronts a group of four sailor ruffians in a town on a South Sea island in a sc...

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