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Pauline Frederick and Irving Cummings

Date: 1916
Description: Myra and Bryan (played by Pauline Frederick and Irving Cummings) are locked in an embrace in a highly retouched scene still from "The World's Great Snare."
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Pauline Frederick

Date: 1916
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...
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Publicity Still of Eleanor Lawson, Marguerite Clark and Helen Greene

Date: 1917
Description: Three English girls who were raised as boys, from left to right: Tommy (played by Marguerite Clark), Willie (Eleanor Lawson), and Noel (Helen Greene) in a ...
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Publicity Still of Marguerite Clark

Date: 1917
Description: Marguerite Clark is seated in a Hansom cab in a publicity still for "The Amazons." She wears a man's tailcoat with white tie, cape, and top hat.
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Scene still of Pauline Frederick in a cabaret.

Date: 1916
Description: Pauline Frederick and an unidentified actor in a straw boater hat sit at a table in a cabaret in a scene still for "Ashes of Embers." She holds a wad of mo...
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Elsie Ferguson publicity still for "The Avalanche"

Date: 1919
Description: Seated on an antique chest, Elsie Ferguson models a light-colored gown, and beside her is a fur-trimmed watered-silk wrap. The French fashion house Callot ...
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Marguerite Clark scene still with automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
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Marguerite Clark scene still washing an automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
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Production still of Marguerite Clark knitting.

Date: 1917
Description: Silent film actress Marguerite Clark sits in a wicker chair and knits on a set for "Bab's Burglar." Behind her is a Pathé 35mm motion picture camera on a t...
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Scene still with Richard Barthelmess and Marguerite Clark.

Date: 1917
Description: Tommy Gray (played by Richard Barthelmess) has his ring returned by Bab Archibald (Marguerite Clark) in a scene still for "Bab's Burglar." Barthelmess wear...
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Scene still with Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess, and a bicycle.

Date: 1917
Description: As Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) and Tommy Gray (Richard Barthelmess) share a bicycle, Tommy tries to steal a kiss in a scene still for "Bab...
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Scene still with Marguerite Clark in a bedroom.

Date: 1917
Description: Marguerite Clark in the role of Bab Archibald lies on her bed in a nightgown, perhaps writing in a diary. This is a scene still for the 1917 Famous Players...
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Publicity Still with William Hinckley and Marguerite Clark

Date: 1917
Description: William Hinckley and Marguerite Clark stand side by side costumed for a wedding as groom and bride in a publicity still for the Famous Players production o...
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Mary Pickford and James Kirkwood in a scene still for "Behind the Scenes"

Date: 1914
Description: An aspiring actress, Dolly Lane (played by Mary Pickford) longs for the stage but feels trapped on the farm of her husband Steve Hunter (played by James Ki...
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Mary Pickford and large group of actors in a rehearsal onstage

Date: 1914
Description: The young actress Dolly Lane (played by Mary Pickford) rehearses onstage with a dozen or so other actors in the chorus in a scene still for the silent dra...
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Mary Pickford and James Kirkwood in a scene still for "Behind the Scenes"

Date: 1914
Description: Dolly Lane (played by Mary Pickford) and her husband Steve Hunter (James Kirkwood) are in their dining room. Pickford wears an apron over her dress and a m...
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Russell Bassett, James Kirkwood, and Mary Pickford in a scene still

Date: 1914
Description: In this scene still for the 1914 silent drama "Behind the Scenes" are, from left to right, Russell Bassett playing the theatrical producer Joe Canby, James...
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Charles K. French and Ethel Clayton in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: Charles K. French and Ethel Clayton have a heart to heart talk seated in comfortable parlor in this scene still for the silent drama "Beyond."
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Gloria Swanson attended by Rudolph Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson (as a semiconscious Theodora Fitzgerald) is offered a sip from the silver hip flask of Rudolph Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) in her res...

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