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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Clara Kimball Young, dressed in a pirate costume, with her parents Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern Kimball on either side of her. Th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) signs the register of an expensive resort hotel under the assumed name Ethel Van Dusen in a scene still from "You... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The Maharajah of Dharmagar (played by Rudolph Valentino) embraces Molly Cabot (Wanda Hawley) in a scene still from "The Young Rajah" (1922). Valentino wear... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino poses wearing very little but an elaborate breechcloth decorated with pearls for his role as the Maharajah of Dharmagar in "The Young Raj... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A scene still set in Doctor Demetrius's laboratory from the silent film "The Young Diana." Diana May (played by Marion Davies) has just been rejuvenated by... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) in a flowing white gown is seated while Adolph Rosenheimer (Edwin August) is on one knee hanging onto the ar... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Blanche Ring in riding clothes (playing Jessie Gordon) and, probably, Joe Ray (as Ramon Morales) in "The Yankee Girl" (1915). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Princess Alexia (played by Enid Markey in an elaborately decorated dress and wearing a crown) marches arm in arm with Dick Mason (George Walsh) in a scene ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Anita Stewart wears a dress made of burlap playing Olympia in the Vitagraph production "The Wood Violet" (1912). |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Prince Michael Orbeliana (played by Lou Tellegen in an aristocratic white military uniform) visits the opera singer Marcia Warren (Geraldine Farrar wearing... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A missionary from New England, Winthrop Stark (played by William B. Davidson), professes his love to Princess Zara (Theda Bara in a grass skirt) on the Sou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This glamorous scene still shows Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woman of the World."... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This glamorous half-length publicity still shows Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woma... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Pola Negri stands in front of a shiny satin theater curtain and is dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Georges Carpentier lightly touches the hand of Flora le Breton who curtsies deeply in this scene still for "A Gypsy Cavalier." They are costumed in 18th ce... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Maritana, a gypsy dancing girl played by Estelle Taylor, and Don Caesar de Bazan (William Farnum) are rather joyful in a scene still from the 1920 Fox prod... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In this scene still from Chaplin's 1917 silent film "The Adventurer," Eric Campbell, made-up with large eyebrows, beard, and moustache, closely scrutinizes... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | In this scene still from Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 production "The Affairs of Anatol," Satan Synne (the wickedest woman in New York, played by Bebe Daniels) ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Stanton and Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey) flirt through a screen in a publicity still for "Aladdin from Broadway." The... |
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