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Call number
MFLB+ (Inspiration Pictures: Albums)
Physical description
42 linear feet (96 boxes)
Preferred Citation
Inspiration Pictures: albums of stills and press books, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Billy Rose Theatre Division
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Actor Richard Barthelmess formed Inspiration Pictures to make Tol'able David (1921). He founded the Inspiration Company along with Charles H. Duell and Henry King. Inspiration Pictures was located in Los Angeles, California. Collection consists of 96 albums of black and white photographs and press books of clippings for films produced by Inspiration Pictures in the 1920s. The amateur gentleman (ca. 1926), The bond boy (ca. 1922), The bright shawl (ca. 1923), Fury (ca. 1923), Ranson's folly (ca. 1926), Romola (1924), and The white sister (1923) are especially well-documented. There is also one press book of material on actress Lillian Gish, who appeared in The white sister (1923) and Romola (1924), produced by Inspiration Pictures.

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Location

Billy Rose Theatre Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor