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565. Collection of New York theatrical portraits of female subjects by Nickolas Muray and other photographers. Collection of 34 gelatin silver semi-gloss mostly double-weight 8 x 10 in. prints featuring Gertrude Lawrence and Jeanette MacDonald by G. Maillard Kessler, Eva Le Gallienne by Nickolas Muray, Dorothy McGuire by Alfredo and including Ina Claire by Russell Ball, Helen Hayes by Henri Bendel, Gale Sondergaard by Maurice Goldberg, Billie Burke by Herbert Mitchell, Mitchell Studios N.Y., Judith Anderson and Cathleen Nesbitt by Nickolas Muray, Camilla Horn by Jean de Strelecki, Betty Field, Zita Johan, Helen Mack and Karen Morley by Talbot and others; with photographer rubber stamp, paper caption and hand notation on the verso. Le Gallienne had noted affairs with Nazimova and Tallulah Bankhead. Nesbitt was engaged to poet Rupert Brooke who wrote sonnets to her before his death during the First World War. Very good to Excellent.
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NY theatrical portraits of female subjects
Estimate $1,000 - $2,000
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