Lana Turner for These Glamour Girls, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Laszlo Willinger, Hungarian, 1909 - 1989
1939
Black and white print
Image: 9 3/16 × 7 5/16 in. (23.3 × 18.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 8 1/16 in. (25.5 × 20.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The John Kobal Foundation Collection; Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2019.57.2171
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Verso: Upper right, stamped in blue ink, "PLEASE CREDIT M-G-M PHOTO BY WILLINGER 3065" / Center, typed in black, "NEWEST GLAMOUR GIRL...Lana Turner, whom Anita Loos predicts will be be one of the reigning glamour girls of 1940. Under contact to Metro-Goldywn-Mayer, she vamped Lews Ayres in 'Calling Dr. Kildare', as she did Mickey Rooney in 'Love Finds Andy Hardy." and stamped in black ink, "38 DRAYTON COURT DRAYTON GARDENS LONDON SW10 KOBAL COLLECTION" and stamped in blue ink, "Oct 1939"
Provenance
John Kobal Foundation Limited, London, England; sold to present collection, 2019.
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