WILL ROGERS AND WALTER WINCHELL. Three original/vintage publicity photographs: 1.) Rogers and Winchell at an NBC microphone (9 1/2" x 7 1/2"); 1928, when "...Walter made an appearance in the fall on a special broadcast boosting humorist Will Roger's mock presidential candidacy..." (Gabler in Winchell, 1994:110). Condition good; tiny corner loss. 2.-3.) Rogers and Winchell, identified verso as being on set at Fox Films, "where Rogers is making 'Life's Worth Living'" (original title of "Doctor Bull," 1933). And another print of the same image cropped (8 1/2" x 6 1/2"). Condition: the first with tiny corner loss; the second laid down on cardboard. PROVENANCE: THE HAROLD A. LAYER COLLECTION. From the Walter Winchell Files, Butterfield & Butterfield, 1990/91.
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