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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Promotional postcard for the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin," featuring cameo photographs of the stars Francis Ford (as Count Frederick) and Grace ... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) stands preaching next to Jesus (also played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a lamb in his arms. This elabo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915). |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | John Ford in a detail from a group portrait of the cast and crew of the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin". John, then about twenty-one years old, act... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Director Phillips Smalley (third from the left), rehearsing his players in Brand Whitlock's story being filmed at Universal City. The ju... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The boxer Tom Harper (played by Frank Mayo at left) has a tense meeting with his opponent Slick Morrisey (Al Kaufman) before their fight. They are flanked ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Frank Mayo, wearing a white pith helmet, white shirt, and white jodhpurs, confronts a group of four sailor ruffians in a town on a South Sea island in a sc... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | In a scene still from "The Amazing Wife," U.S. Army Lieutenant John Ashton (played by Frank Mayo) clinches his fist and glares at his cousin Philip Ashton ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | In a scene still from "The Amazing Wife," Cicely Osborne (played by Mary MacLaren) seems disturbed by Philip Ashton (Stanhope Wheaton) who leans over her s... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Cicely Osborne (played by Mary MacLaren) adds a sugar cube to her coffee as Philip Ashton (Stanhope Wheaton) who is seated next to her and a waiter watch c... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Actress Ella Hall sits behind the wheel of an open roadster automobile, perhaps a Stutz Bearcat. Sitting beside her is Robert Z. Leonard costumed for a cou... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The cousins Pepe Rey Don Jose (played by Emory Johnson) and Rosarita (Ella Hall) stand in a Spanish garden looking apprehensive in a scene still from the 1... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Robert Z. Leonard costumed as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the Civil War, pauses warily by a window in a scene still for the silent drama "Betty'... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Talithy Millicuddy (played by Mary Philbin) looks lovingly at Bradley Yates (Frank Mayo) in a scene still for the 1921 silent drama "The Blazing Trail." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Bradley Yates (played by Frank Mayo) tells Chipmunk Grannis (the child actor Verne Winter) something he does not enjoy hearing in a scene still for the 192... |
| 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... |
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