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Olive Thomas

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Olive Thomas (born Olive R. Duffy; October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent film actress and model. [1]

98 relations: A Girl Like That, Accidental death, Alberto Vargas, Ambassador, American Hospital of Paris, An Even Break, Assistant director, Autopsy, Beatrice Fairfax, Billie Burke, Camera operator, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Charlotte Hennessey, Cigarette case, Coupe de Ville, Daily Record (Washington), Daisy Eagan, Elopement, Episcopal Church (United States), Estate sale, Everybody's Sweetheart (1920 film), Fanny Brice, Femme fatale, Flapper, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., France, Frances Marion, French language, Germany, Gingham, Harlem, Harrison Fisher, Hôtel Ritz Paris, Hollywood, Honeymoon, Howard Chandler Christy, Hugh Hefner, Irish people, Jack Pickford, Joseph Horne Company, Kaufmann's, Lewis J. Selznick, Lillian Lorraine, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Lottie Pickford, Love's Prisoner, Mabel Normand, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, ..., Mercury(II) chloride, Michael Hayden (actor), Michelle Vogel, Model (person), Montparnasse, Moral turpitude, Musical theatre, Myron Selznick, Nephritis, Neuilly-sur-Seine, New Amsterdam Theatre, New Jersey, New York City, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Owen Moore, Paramount Pictures, Paris, Pearl, Pickfair, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press, Pressed Steel Car Company, Prudence on Broadway, Rachel York, Raphael Kirchner, Saint Thomas Church (Manhattan), Santa Monica Pier, Sapphire, Silent film, Steel, Syphilis, The Bronx, The Flapper, The Glorious Lady, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, The Vancouver Sun, Thomas Meighan, Tom Sawyer (1917 film), United States Marine Corps, Upstairs and Down, Wallace Reid, William Desmond Taylor, Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York), World War I, Ziegfeld Follies, Ziegfeld girl. Expand index (48 more) »

A Girl Like That

A Girl Like That is a 1917 American drama silent film directed by Dell Henderson and written by Paul West and Roswell Dague.

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Accidental death

An accidental death is an unnatural death that is caused by an accident such as a slip and fall, traffic collision, or accidental poisoning.

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Alberto Vargas

Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982) was a noted Peruvian painter of pin-up girls.

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Ambassador

An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment.

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American Hospital of Paris

The American Hospital of Paris, founded in 1906, is a private, not-for-profit hospital that is certified under the French healthcare system.

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An Even Break

An Even Break is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film written and directed by Lambert Hillyer, and starring Olive Thomas and Charles Gunn.

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Assistant director

The role of an assistant director on a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set.

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Autopsy

An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.

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Beatrice Fairfax

Beatrice Fairfax is an American silent film serial directed and produced by Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton.

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Billie Burke

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress who was famous on Broadway, on radio, early silent film, and subsequently in sound film.

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Camera operator

A camera operator, sometimes informally called a cameraman, is a professional operator of a film or video camera.

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Charleroi, Pennsylvania

Charleroi is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River, 21 miles south of Pittsburgh.

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Charlotte Hennessey

Charlotte Hennessey Smith (Pickford) (January 1, 1873 – March 22, 1928) was a Canadian silent film actress and the mother of Mary, Lottie, and Jack Pickford, who all became actors.

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Cigarette case

A cigarette case (sometimes called a cigarette tin) is a sturdy container used to store small numbers of cigarettes and prevent them from being crushed.

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Coupe de Ville

Coupe de ville — also known as town car, sedanca de ville or coupé de ville — is a car body style produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.

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Daily Record (Washington)

The Daily Record is an American daily newspaper published in Ellensburg, Washington.

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Daisy Eagan

Daisy Eagan (born November 4, 1979) is an American actress.

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Elopement

To elope, most literally, means to run away and to not come back to the point of origin.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Estate sale

An estate sale or estate liquidation is a sale or auction to dispose of a substantial portion of the materials owned by a person who is recently deceased or who must dispose of their personal property to facilitate a move.

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Everybody's Sweetheart (1920 film)

Everybody's Sweetheart is a 1920 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and written by John Lynch.

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Fanny Brice

Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice, was an American illustrated song model, comedienne, singer, theater, and film actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show.

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Femme fatale

A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations.

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Flapper

Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932), popularly known as Flo Ziegfeld, was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frances Marion

Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens, November 18, 1888Beauchamp. 1997 – May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gingham

Gingham is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Harrison Fisher

Harrison Fisher (July 27, 1875 or 1877January 19, 1934) was an American illustrator.

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Hôtel Ritz Paris

The Ritz Paris is a hotel in central Paris, in the 1st arrondissement.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Honeymoon

A honeymoon is a vacation taken by newlyweds shortly after a wedding to celebrate their marriage.

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Howard Chandler Christy

Howard Chandler Christy (January 10, 1872 – March 3, 1952) was an American artist and illustrator, famous for the "Christy Girl" – a colorful and illustrious successor to the "Gibson Girl" – who became the most popular portrait painter of the Jazz Age era.

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Hugh Hefner

Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American businessman, magazine publisher, and playboy.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Jack Pickford

Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith; August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer.

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Joseph Horne Company

The Joseph Horne Company, often referred to simply as Joseph Horne's or Horne's, was an iconic, regional department store chain based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Kaufmann's

Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Lewis J. Selznick

Lewis J. Selznick (born Laiser Zeleznick, May 2, 1870 or 1869 – January 25, 1933) was an American producer in the early years of the film industry.

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Lillian Lorraine

Lillian Lorraine (January 1, 1892 – April 17, 1955) was an American stage and screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, best known for her beauty and for being perhaps the most famous Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s.

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Los Angeles Herald Examiner

The Los Angeles Herald Examiner was a major Los Angeles daily newspaper, published Monday through Friday in the afternoon and in the morning on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Lottie Pickford

Lottie Pickford (born Charlotte Smith, June 9, 1893 – December 9, 1936) was a Canadian-born silent film actress and socialite.

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Love's Prisoner

Love's Prisoner is a 1919 American silent crime drama film starring Olive Thomas.

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Mabel Normand

Mabel Ethelreid Normand (November 10, 1893 – February 23, 1930) was an American silent-film actress, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Marilyn Miller

Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds, September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania

McKees Rocks, also known as "The Rocks", is a borough in Allegheny County, in western Pennsylvania, along the south bank of the Ohio River.

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Mercury(II) chloride

Mercury(II) chloride or mercuric chloride (archaically, corrosive sublimate) is the chemical compound of mercury and chlorine with the formula HgCl2.

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Michael Hayden (actor)

Michael Hayden (July 28, 1963) is an actor who has appeared both on the stage and on television.

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Michelle Vogel

Michelle Vogel is an Australian-born film historian, author and free-lance editor.

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Model (person)

A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows), or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography.

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Montparnasse

Montparnasse(French) is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

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Moral turpitude

Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States and some other countries that refers to "an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community".

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Myron Selznick

Myron Selznick (October 5, 1898 – March 23, 1944) was an American film producer and talent agent.

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Nephritis

Nephritis is inflammation of the kidneys and may involve the glomeruli, tubules, or interstitial tissue surrounding the glomeruli and tubules.

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Neuilly-sur-Seine

Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French commune just west of Paris, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine.

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New Amsterdam Theatre

The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theater District of Manhattan, New York City, off of Times Square.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Musical Theatre Festival

The New York Musical Festival (NYMF) is an annual three-week summer festival which presents more than thirty new musicals at venues in New York City's midtown theater district.

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Owen Moore

Owen Moore (12 December 1886 – 9 June 1939) was an Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pearl

A pearl is a hard glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as a conulariid.

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Pickfair

Pickfair was an 18-acre estate in the city of Beverly Hills, California designed by architect Wallace Neff for silent film actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.

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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE), also known as the "Little Giant", was formed on May 11, 1875.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Pittsburgh Press

The Pittsburgh Press (formerly known as The Pittsburg Press), published from 1884 to 1992, was a major afternoon daily newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.

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Pressed Steel Car Company

On January 13, 1899 the Pressed Steel Car Company was incorporated in New Jersey with an authorized capitalization of $25 million, for the stated purpose of “manufacturing passenger, freight and street railway cars and to make trucks, wheels, and other parts of cars”.

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Prudence on Broadway

Prudence on Broadway is a lost 1919 silent film comedy directed by Frank Borzage and starring Olive Thomas.

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Rachel York

Rachel York (born August 7, 1971 in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress and singer.

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Raphael Kirchner

Raphael Kirchner (1876 – 2 August 1917) was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin-up work, especially in picture postcard format.

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Saint Thomas Church (Manhattan)

Saint Thomas Church, located at the corner of 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York in the United States, is an Episcopal parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

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Santa Monica Pier

The Santa Monica Pier is a large double-jointed pier at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California.

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Sapphire

Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Flapper

The Flapper is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Olive Thomas.

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The Glorious Lady

The Glorious Lady is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by George Irving.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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The Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on 12 February 1912.

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Thomas Meighan

Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies.

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Tom Sawyer (1917 film)

Tom Sawyer is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama/adventure film starring Jack Pickford, Robert Gordon, and Clara Horton; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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Upstairs and Down

Upstairs and Down is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn, and starring Olive Thomas, Rosemary Theby, David Butler, and Robert Ellis.

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Wallace Reid

William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an American actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".

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William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Irish director and actor.

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Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)

Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and is a designated National Historic Landmark.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies was a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934 and 1936.

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Ziegfeld girl

Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls from Florenz Ziegfeld's theatrical Broadway revue spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), in New York City, which were based on the Folies Bergère of Paris.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Thomas

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