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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | George Peppard (playing Paul Varjak) leans over the back in which lies Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in a publicity still for "Breakfast at Tiffany's... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn stand by a table with hors d'oeuvres and champagne in a scene still from "The Philadelphia Story" (MGM 1941). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Luise D'Auvergne (Marguerite Courtot) and Jean-Marie (Owen Moore) board a seaplane in a production still from the Famous Players film "The Kiss." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dramaic scene still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "Bigger Than Life," featuring Walter Matthau (playing Wally Gibbs), James Mason (playing Ed Avery)... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young in a flowing white gown) shrinks back in alarm as Fedia (John St. Polis) receives a terrific right punch to t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pauline Frederick as Myra, wearing a kimono, reacts to the signs of her dissipation scattered on a table: playing cards, cigarettes, whiskey, the remains o... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Mae Gaston gives a baby doll to a poor flower girl as an older and more prosperous girl looks on in a scene still from the 1915 Reliance film "The ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Jennie Lee bends over a small flower girl who wears a kerchief on her head. They stand on the front porch of an impoverished house in this scene st... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for episode seven ("A Name for a Baby") of the silent serial "Beatrice Fairfax," Beatrice Fairfax (played by Grace Darling) bursts in u... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This scene still for the 1922 Warner drama "The Beautiful and the Damned" is set in a wrecked room with an overturned chair and table, broken picture frame... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | In a log cabin, Bradley Yates (played by Frank Mayo) is confronted by four armed vigilantes, who wear klan-style hoods. The mountain girl Talithy Millicudd... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Agnes Moorehead as 'Endora' from the TV show "Bewitched." She is holding a cigarette holder up to her mouth and is smiling. The ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1965 |
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| Description: | Several actors, all of whom are white and are wearing "yellowface" makeup to caricature Asians, are either dancing or looking on. Caption reads: "The Chine... |
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