Ginger Rogers for The Gay Divorcee, RKO
Ernest Bachrach
1934
Black and white vintage print
Image: 9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (24.5 × 18.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.8 × 20.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The John Kobal Foundation Collection; Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2019.57.3127
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Verso: Left margin, typed on paper, "NY-NC19-194. Ginger Rogers, the glamour girl of the screen, will be seen at her sparkling, dashing best in the current RKO-Radio musical farce "The Gay Divorce." and in green ink "457/69" / Upper left, in graphite, " 500 colorgraph Series No C 223 Ginger Rogers Radio" / Center, purple stamps, "OCT 1934" and "THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH FROM [illegible]" and in graphite, " Do not use pink on this" Lower center, stamped in blue, "Please return Kobal Collection 38 Drayton Court Drayton Gardens London SW10 9RH Telephone: 01-373-9366" and "One paint 8/8 wanted 4 pm please" and typed, "Ginger Rodgers, PH: E.Bachrach 934 Cost: Bernard Newman"
Provenance
John Kobal Foundation Limited, London, England; sold to present collection, 2019.
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