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Marie Prevost in Erotic Flapper View

Artist:Edwin Bower Hesser
Date:1920s
Medium:Gelatin Silver on Double Weight Photostock
Dimensions:11" x 14"
Condition:Good
Original Use:Hollywood Glamour Art
Price: S O L D
Above: Full view of photograph

In her most erotically charged, fur clad pose, Marie Prevost is the epitome of the jazz age flapper in this rare early 1920s view. One of Edwin Bower Hesser's classic portraits, 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. This vintage still is well preserved with one crease in upper left.

Above: Detail

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From All Movie Guide: American actress Marie Prevost was convent-educated in Montreal before heading to Los Angeles as a high schooler. Prevost gave up a stenographer's job in 1917 to become one of the bathing beauties at Mack Sennett studios. Several years of playing ingenues for Sennett came to an end when she signed at Universal Studios in 1921; her career really got started, however, during her stay at Warner Bros., where she was fortunate enough to be cast in a series of such popular sophisticated comedies as director Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924). Talking pictures forced Prevost to alter her image; her nasal, high-pitched voice was more suited to wisecracking chorus girls or gum-chewing receptionists than pampered society wives. Prevost was cast in a few good supporting parts throughout the '30s, notably as Carole Lombard's manicurist chum in Hands Across the Table (1936). Marie Prevost died in 1937 at the age of 38. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Marie Prevost in Erotic Flapper View

Artist: Edwin Bower Hesser
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Edwin Bower Hesser, erotic, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, Marie Prevost, portrait, risque, showgirl
Added to Gallery: October 30, 2011

 

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