1936 EARLY LUCILLE BALL GLAMOUR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH PIN UP BEST DRESSED STARLET

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Thanksfor visiting Grapefruit Moon Gallery on ebay, we are honored to be yourone-stop, 5 star source for vintage pin-up, Hollywood glamour and erotic photography, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changing assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, art nouveau, art deco, & mid-century modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great ebay listings. All sell no reserve. ITEM: You are bidding on a 1936 vintage photograph of Lucille Ball, as she was being positioned as a rising star by RKO, a very early view by John Miehle with extensive press snipe lauding her talent and beauty. Snipe reads "HERE IS HOLLYWOOD'S BEST DRESSED GIRL. So says RKO Radio stylist Bernard Newman, who, after all, should know. Aside from capably living up to her title, Lucille is one of RKO's fastest-rising young players. She is not only beautiful, intelligent and chic, but she also has a unique flair for comedy portrayals." Verso also includes John Miehle stamp and press stamps that were later marked out with black crayon as seen. Front is clean, and this is out of the world cool. Measures 8" x 10" 100% guaranteed vintage and original. We have come into a large collection of fantastic Golden Age Hollywood portrait photography and multiple wins will ship for no additional cost. CONDITION: This vintage photograph is in fine condition with the verso messiness noted, but a clean and beautiful glassy front with only a little margin wear, 100% guaranteed vintage and original.***************************** Mini Biography The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked several jobs, so she and her younger brother were raised by their grandparents. Always willing to take responsibility for her brother and young cousins, she was a restless teenager who yearned to "make some noise". She entered a dramatic school in New York City, but while her classmate Bette Davis received all the raves, she was sent home; "too shy". She found some work modeling for Hattie Carnegie's and, in 1933, she was chosen to be a "Goldwyn Girl" and appear in the film Roman Scandals (1933). She was put under contract to RKO Radio Pictures and several small roles, including one in Top Hat (1935), followed. Eventually, she received starring roles in B-pictures and, occasionally, a good role in an A-picture, like in Stage Door (1937) or The Big Street (1942). While filming Too Many Girls (1940), she met and fell madly in love with a young Cuban actor-musician named Desi Arnaz. Despite different personalities, lifestyles, religions and ages (he was six years younger), he fell hard, too, and after a passionate romance, they eloped and were married in November 1940. Lucy soon switched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she got better roles in films such as Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Best Foot Forward (1943) and the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy vehicle Without Love (1945). In 1948, she took a starring role in the radio comedy "My Favorite Husband", in which she played the scatterbrained wife of a Midwestern banker. In 1950, CBS came knocking with the offer of turning it into a television series. After convincing the network brass to let Desi play her husband and to sign over the rights to and creative control over the series to them, work began on the most popular and universally beloved sitcom of all time. With "I Love Lucy" (1951), she and Dezi pioneered the 3-camera technique now the standard in filming sitcoms, and the concept of syndicating television programs. She was also the first woman to own her own studio as the head of Desilu Productions. Lucille Ball died at age 77 of an acute aorta aneurysm on April 26, 1989 in Beverly Hills, ... read more

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