LARGE VINTAGE EARLY 30\'S PRE CODE ELMER FRYER PHOTOGRAPH LILIAN BOND ORIENTALIST
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LARGE VINTAGE EARLY 30\'S PRE CODE ELMER FRYER PHOTOGRAPH LILIAN BOND ORIENTALIST:
$80.00
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This photograph is an incredible fine art document - a Hollywood treasure that sells . We have come into an extraordinary collection of antique Hollywood photographs and memorabilia and are happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. 100% guaranteed original and vintage.CONDITION:Very fine condition with the most minor of handling was born January 21, 1898 in Springfield, Missouri. He began working as a photographer in 1924. When Warner Brothers and First National Studios joined operations in 1929, Fryer replaced Fred Archer as head of the new Warner-First National Stills Department. During the 1930s he took portraits of Dolores Del Rio, Kay Francis, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, George Brent among other Warner Brothers stars. Fryer left Warner Brothers in 1941, shortly before his death at age 46 on March 3, 1944.
Fryer is known for his detailed and complex eye for posing his subjects. He had a wonderful sense of modernist style and fashion. He made use of the art deco period\'s elegant shading and shadowing in black and white Bond (18 January 1908 – 25 January 1991) was a British film actress of the late 1920s to the 1940s, with most of her films being B-films.Bond was born in London and made her first public appearance at the age of fourteen when she was in the pantomime, Dick Whittington. Later she joined the chorus of Piccadilly Revels and continued on the stage when she went to America. She began her film career in the 1929 film No More Children. Between 1929 and 1931 she starred in nine films, most notably the 1931 western Rider of the Plains opposite Tom Tyler. In 1932 she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star, alongside future Hollywood legends Gloria Stuart and Ginger Rogers.From 1932 to 1953, she would have roles in 39 films, some of which were uncredited, with others having her in the lead heroine role. Bond played Gladys DuCane in The Old Dark House, a chorus girl who falls in love with Roger Penderel (played by Melvyn Douglas). Possibly her best-known film role was in the 1940 film The Westerner, in which she played legendary stage actress Lillie Langtry, and which starred Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Doris Davenport. By the 1950s her career had declined, with her having mostly television series appearances. She retired from acting at the age of 50 in 1958.She was married three times, her first marriage being at the height of her career, to Sidney Smith. She married Smith in 1935, and the two divorced in 1944. Lilian went on to marry Michael Fessier, a successful writer and producer in 1961. The two remained married until his death in 1988.She died in 1991, aged 83, from a heart attack, in the care home she lived in Reseda, California, USA.
LARGE VINTAGE EARLY 30\'S PRE CODE ELMER FRYER PHOTOGRAPH LILIAN BOND ORIENTALIST:
$80.00