Tallulah Bankhead for Faithless, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Clarence Sinclair Bull, American, 1896 - 1979
1932
Black and white vintage print
Sheet: 13 × 10 in. (33 × 25.4 cm)
Image: 12 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (31.1 × 23.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The John Kobal Foundation Collection; Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2019.57.1127
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Verso: upper left corner, blue stamp "Kindly Credit Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer No" graphite "B4704" / CC paper affixed to print, typed: "TALLULAH BANKHEAD flames across the screen again in a role that takes her from the marble halls of wealth to the direst straits of poverty in "tinfoil," for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed her from her home heath, Paramount to co-star with Robert Montgomery."
Provenance
John Kobal Foundation Limited, London, England; sold to present collection, 2019.
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