
Actress Jan Sterling in Mystery Street,
directed by John Sturges,
1950. / src
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Nickolas Muray :: Dorothy Arnold as the Duchess in the ballet ‘Nightingale and the Rose’, Greenwich Village Follies, 1922
/ src: Museum of the city of New York
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Underwood & Underwood :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, ca. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: “William Fox presents Valeska Suratt in photo plays supreme released through Fox Film Corporation”. /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Stage, silent era actress and vamp Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek, 1917 (Fox Film publicity photograph) /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Shōmei Tōmatsu :: Actress Eiko Oshima in the film Shiiku (Prize Stock), 1961
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Alfred Cheney Johnston :: Mae Murray, published in Motion Picture magazine, August 1920 issue. /
source: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section
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Alfred Cheney Johnston :: Eleanor Dell in costume for Ziegfeld Follies, published in Shadowland magazine, September 1922 issue. /
source: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section
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