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Carole Lombard
Artist: Unknown
Carole Lombard, one of the finest actresses of the golden era of Hollywood film, is captured in all of her glamour in this promotional portrait for Paramount Pictures. In dramatic sequined gown, the platinum blonde beauty who captured the heart of America in the 1930s, and died tragically promoting the war effort in 1941, still captivates. 
Autographed Portrait of Anna May Wong
Artist: Unknown
Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, spent her career tirelessly working to portray Chinese culture in a positive light, despite the tremendous racism and zenophobia of jazz age Hollywood. As a fashion icon and powerful actress, she managed to subvert the stereotypical expectations many of her roles proscribed, and to impart her own sophistication to her characters.
Josephine Baker as a Follies Bergere Girl
Artist: Unknown
A large and very rare hand painted composition figural advertising display of Josephine Baker in her legendary and scandalous banana skirt. The international sensation made its debut in the 1927 Follies Bergere show titled "Un Vent de Folie" and became Baker's signature costume. Likely French in manufacture, this is an antique and original burlesque era surviving advertising document, we have never seen another example and are certain few were manufactured and even fewer have survived.
Clara Bow in Mantrap
Artist: Unknown
A 1926 view of It girl Clara Bow from her breakout performance in the roaring '20s silent film vehicle "Mantrap," this double weight gallery portrait features Bow with wild flapper bob. Bow's wizened eyes and cupid feature captured the nihilism and eroticism of the Lost generation, as well as the heart of the American moviegoing public, and vintage original stills of her remain highly collectible.
Judy Garland Double Image
Artist: Unknown
This art deco stylized hatted view of Judy Garland was kept in the actress's personal collection until her death. A charming portrait that showcases the joyful innocence which was essential to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's presentation of the icon (but which ran directly counter to her haunted personal life). This double weight, large format gallery portrait is a rarely seen still, and celebrates the style of the late 1930s as well as the unusual beauty of Garland.
A Dramatic Hedy Lamarr
Artist: Unknown
Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood's icon of glamour and style, is radiant in this large format, rare gallery still created as a promotional portrait for her 1944 starring turn in "The Heavenly Body." These double weight, oversized stills were never intended for public consumption and are rare and coveted today as the apex of Hollywood fine art glamour photography. Stunning with its deep black and dramatic style, this also features advertising press snipe on verso as seen.
Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser
Artist: Unknown
The instantly iconic profile of Gloria Swanson is foregrounded in this romantic and highly art deco photograph of the queen of silent film, from her 1929 vehicle The Trespasser. In refined flapper pose, against abstracted picture window, Swanson defines the roaring '20s with all of its sexuality and culture. The still features heavily notated verso with Spanish language text and archival numbering.
Pigskin Parade Large Showgirl Photograph
Artist: Unknown
Dixie Dunbar and a gaggle of Twentieth Century Fox starlets are shown as smiling cheerleaders in this custom large format still for the 1936 musical Pigskin Parade, best remembered as Judy Garland's feature film debut. This 24" x 20" photograph was hand printed as a lobby photograph for the studio, and is a rare and coveted piece of Hollywood memorabilia as such.
Marie Prevost in Erotic Flapper View
Artist: Unknown
In her most erotically charged, fur clad pose, Marie Prevost is the epitome of the jazz age flapper in this rare early 1920s view. Reminiscent of the work of Alfred Cheney Johnston, this showgirl inspired Hollywood glamour portrait captures a soft-focus and decadent view of the scandal-ridden star, who is now as much remembered for her tragic death as her glorious career. This large-format, double weight, matte finish photograph is an unusual and important look at the cult icon in her prime.
R.C.M.P. & Indian Chief
Artist: Unknown
A delightful original circa 1915-1925 gouache commercial illustration of unknown use and origin, showing a well articulated Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and an Indian Chief in traditional headdress, both on horseback, envisioned in the vast expanses of The Canadian Rocky Mountains. This fine old gouache illustration painting is framed in a handsome wide profile antique period frame.
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