Russian Actress Anna Sten Large Original Ruth Harriet Louise Photograph c. 1932
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ITEM: This is a c. 1932 large format vintage and original Classic Hollywood glamour photograph of Russian actress Anna Sten. The stage and screen actress is pictured here at the beginning of her career in Hollywood after being brought to the American film colony at the behest of Samuel Goldwyn as an intended rival to Greta Garbo. Beautiful and elegant, Sten is photographed in semi-profile by pioneering female photographer Ruth Harriet Louise dating to the end of her far too short career photographing film stars in Hollywood. The stamped press snipe on verso reads:Anna Sten, young emotional actress trained in Soviet stage and screen institutions, is being groomed to play opposite Ronald Colman. Producer Samuel Goldwyn is laying elaborate plans to make Miss Sten's screen debut an event sensational enough to be a worthy successor to her German triumphs in "The Brothers Karamozov" and "Tempest," and the Russian "The Yellow Ticket" and "Moscow Laughs and Cries."Photograph measures 10.75" x 13.75" on a glossy double weight paper stock with ink stamps on verso.Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.More about Anna Sten:Radiant, gentle-featured leading actress who, after some success in her native Russia, was signed by producer Samuel Goldwyn, who was determined the turn her into another Garbo or Dietrich
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