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Roundy Coughlin on the Orpheum Theatre Stage

Date: 05 27 1939
Description: Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, standing in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred...
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Florence Lawrence in "The Pawns of Destiny"

Date: 1914
Description: Florence Lawrence watches as a young man with bandaged hands and face is transferred by two orderlies from a gurney onto a hospital bed. Also visible in th...
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Elsie Janis and Three of her Gang

Date: 1919
Description: Elsie Janis, in military uniform, stands arm-in-arm with three soldiers in a publicity photograph for the musical revue "Elsie Janis and Her Gang." They we...
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"The Broken Coin" Production Still

Date: 1915
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 ...
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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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William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
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...
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"Murphey's I.O.U." Publicity Still

Date: 1913
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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"Alias, Mike Moran" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Larry Young (played by Wallace Reid in the uniform of a sergeant in the Canadian army) embraces Elaine Debaux (Ann Little in a nurse's cape) in a scene sti...
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Evelyn Nesbit in a Scene Still from "The Woman Who Gave"

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Evelyn Nesbit and her son Russell Thaw. Miss Nesbit is now a film star, and in her first production, 'The Woman Who Gave' which she made...
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Faire Binney with Georges Carpentier in Uniform

Date: 1920
Description: In a publicity still from "The Wonderman," Henri D'Alour (played by Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, aviator, and actor) stands grinning over the shou...
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Publicity Still of Viola Dana and Bert Lytell

Date: 1920
Description: The silent film actors Viola Dana and Bert Lytell, wearing costumes for different productions, knock their coffee cups together in a toast that is apparent...
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Charles Richman, Mary Maurice, James Morrison, and Norma Talmadge in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Harrison (played by Mary Maurice) solemnly presents the family sword to her son John Harrison (Charles Richman, on the left) in a scene still for the ...
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Harry S. Northrup, Lucille Hamill, Louise Beaudet, James Lackaye, Norma Talmadge, Charles Richman, and L. Rodgers Lytton in a scene still.

Date: 1915
Description: After the invasion of the United States, Americans are threatened by the enemy leader Mr. Emanon (played by L. Rodgers Lytton in profile at far right) and ...
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Scene still with a donkey, Marion Fairbanks, Raymond Hitchcock, and Madeline Fairbanks

Date: 1922
Description: Raymond Hitchcock (in costume as Dr. Arbutus Budd pretending to be an Italian nobleman) is arm in arm with the Fairbanks Twins, Marion Fairbanks on the lef...
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Scene still with John Bowers, Alice Brady, and Frank Mayo

Date: 1917
Description: George Washington's aide Joseph Ashburn (played by John Bowers in Revolutionary War uniform) confronts Clarence Vernon (Frank Mayo) who has been hiding in ...
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Nancy Allen and Peter Weller

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Description: Nancy Allen, as Officer Anne Lewis, sits or stands behind Peter Weller, who is Robocop, looking over his shoulder.
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Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson

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Description: Actress Glynis Johns preparing to film a scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." She is sitting in a wheelchair, and is having her hair arranged by an unidenti...
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Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson

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Description: Actors Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson, and the film crew, waiting to film an outdoor scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Men are around a movie camera in...
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Glynis Johns

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Description: Glynis Johns watching unknown actor having makeup applied to his face by an unidentified man, possibly makeup artist Len Garde, on the set of the 1948 film...
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Louise Beavers and Jackie Robinson

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Description: Actors Louise Beavers and Jackie Robinson are looking at a script together during the production of 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." They are on a ba...

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