ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS

Personality Poster (22" x 28"); GIlda Gray
Very Fine Rolled
Paramount, 1926

This may be a unique surviving example of the pin-up pose of the lovely Gilda Gray. A Polish immigrant, Gray became a sensation by popularizing the "Shimmy," a modern dance of the age. Her star would rise in theater and into a contract with Paramount, where she starred in three money-making films.

There is a silver imprint used to print the titles on this poster. Those for Gray's name and the Paramount logo have been smeared slightly. There is a crimp in the upper left corner.

Aloma of the South Seas is a silent film from 1926 directed by Maurice Tourneur. It stars Gilda Gray. A Tahitian boy is sent to the U.S. to attend Harvard and returns home to find his father has passed and he has to attempt to stop a revolution

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