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| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group shot of the cast and crew for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin," taken after shooting the final scene. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford are in the ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | From left to right Werner Krauss (playing Dr. Caligari), Conrad Veidt (as Cesare the somnambulist), and Lil Dagover (as Jane Olsen) in a scene from the exp... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The boxer Pat Glendon, Jr. (played by Reginald Denny) grasps the hand of socialite Maude Sangster (Mabel Julienne Scott) in a scene still from "The Abysmal... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The boxer Pat Glendon, Jr. (played by Reginald Denny) and socialite Maude Sangster (Mabel Julienne Scott) glare at each other in a scene still from "The Ab... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Forrest (played by John Bowers) holds an axe as Lilith (Leatrice Joy) gazes into his face in this scene still from the silent film "The Ace of Hearts." The... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in 1860s or 1870s period costume. They are apparently being guarded by two U.S. Army soldiers in this scene still for "A... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford in the title role, in costume, reading the book by Kate Dougla... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A caveman (played by Elliott Dexter) has defeated a rival and thus wins the interest of the Mischevous One, a young cavewoman played by Julia Faye in this ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Three young cavemen--cavepersons?--react in fear to an offscreen threat. From left to right the actors are Anna Q. Nilsson, Pauline Garon, and Theodore Kos... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Milton Sills as a caveman dressed in fur and armed with a stone club in a prehistoric forest in Cecil B. De Mill's silent film production "Adam's Rib" (Fam... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the Betzwood Film Co. silent film "Speedy Meade," featuring Louis Bennison as Speedy Meade. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the American Film Co. silent film "The Intrusion of Isabel," featuring Alan Forrest (playing Jack Craig) and Mary Miles Minter (playing Is... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe... |
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