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Raquel Torres at Bastick Beauty Shop

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Actress Raquel Torres has her hair dressed by Rose Bastick at Bastick Beauty Shop, 18 E. Mifflin Street.
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Raquel Torres at Manchesters Cosmetics Counter

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Raquel Torres at Manchesters cosmetics counter with Max Factor representative, Mabelle Hege, and another woman holding a dog.
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Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses seated in front of a painted forest backdrop. She wears wings and is wrapped in a diaphanous material. On the left on the ground is a s...
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Studio Portrait of Elsie Janis

Date: 1912
Description: Original caption: "Elsie Janis who with Montgomery and Stone will open in the new musical comedy 'The Lady of the Slipper'..."
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Joel McCrea and Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Publicity photo of Joel McCrea and Laraine Day for the film "Foreign Correspondent." McCrea wears a suit and sits with his arms around his legs. Day wears ...
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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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Raymond Bloomer, Marion Davies, and five other actors in a scene still

Date: 1919
Description: Jack Bronson (played by Raymond Bloomer) has been beaten senseless in an underworld bar. Violet Gray (played by Marion Davies dressed in a Salvation Army u...
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Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, and Gertrude Astor, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Lord Hector Bracondale (played by Rudolph Valentino) has a heart to heart talk with his mother Lady Bracondale (Edythe Chapman) as Morella Winmarleigh (Ger...
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David Howard and Mary Miles Minter scene still

Date: 1918
Description: At lunch in a restaurant, Cuthbert King (played by David Howard) asks his sister Phyllis King (Mary Miles Minter) for a loan to pay his gambling debts in a...
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Alan Forrest and Mary Miles Minter in a restaurant scene still

Date: 1918
Description: As Grayson Blair (played by Alan Forrest) is helped with his coat, he notices Phyllis King (Mary Miles Minter) sitting alone at a table in a restaurant in ...
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Lynn Fontanne, Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt

Date: 04 19 1970
Description: Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne...
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"Fool's Paradise"

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Description: Poll Patchouli (Dorothy Dalton) sits on a bar in a scene from the 1921 film "Fool's Paradise". John Rodriguez (Theodore Kosloff) and another man (George C....
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Norma Talmadge in "The Lady"

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Description: Norma Talmadge and Marc McDermott appear in a scene from the 1925 film "The Lady." Talmadge, as Polly Pearl, sits at a table with her elbow on the table a...

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