Distinctive African Hand carved wood bust, open mouth, teeth, tall hair or headdress. Nail head eyes and teeth. 4lbs Approx.
Measurements: 25in height x 6 x10.
Connie Wald, a Beverly Hills hostess whose dinner parties began during Hollywood’s Golden Age and became an enduring social institution — part home-cooked casual, part parade of stars which included Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Audrey Hepburn. Jerry Wald, her husband, the go-getting Hollywood writer-producer of popular imagination: charismatic, ambitious, shrewd, frequently brilliant, and filled with a nervous energy driving him from one project to another. In keeping with his credo, that there were "no washed-up actors, only washed-up stories", he rejuvenated the careers of some of Warner's biggest female stars by casting them in some of the best-written films of the period: Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Humoresque (1946); Claire Trevor - in Key Largo (1948); and Jane Wyman - in Johnny Belinda (1948).
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Some loss to hair/headdress areas. Natural aging to wood. As found patina and wear.