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Auction History Result 1a561 LOT OF 4 MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN DELUXE RE-STRIKE 8X10 STILLS 1960s beautiful close portraits! Date Sold 10/1/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 4 deluxe 1960s or 1970s RE-STRIKE 8x10 stills of Maureen O'Sullivan. Maureen O'Sullivan was born in Roscommon, Ireland in 1911. She went to the same convent school in Dublin that Vivien Leigh attended at the same time. After graduating, she began working with the poor, but happened to meet American director Frank Borzage, who invited her to take a screen test, and she was given a part in a Hollywood movie. She made 9 movies for four studios, and then signed a contract with MGM, where she became a protege of Irving Thalberg. He chose her to be Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man in 1932, and also gave her prominent roles in other major MGM productions, including in The Thin Man, David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, A Day at the Races, and many others, including two Tarzan sequels. In 1936 Thalberg died, and she received less important roles at MGM, although they still put her in lots of movies. She married Australian writer John Farrow in 1936, and they had their first child in 1939, which slowed her pace of movies, but she still appeared in three more Tarzan movies, and a few others. In 1942 they had their second child, and her husband contracted typhoid during the war, and she retired to take care of her husband and children (they would go on to have seven children in all). Her final movie of this period was fittingly a Tarzan movie, Tarzan's New York Adventure, and it was one of the most enjoyable of the series. Her husband became a director, and she came out of retirement to appear in his The Big Clock in 1948, and a few other movies, plus some TV appearances. Her husband passed away in 1963, and she continued doing some acting. Three of her daughters became actresses, with Mia and Tisa the best known. A fourth daughter, Prudence, was the inspiration for the Beatles song, Dear Prudence! Maureen O'Sullivan remarried in 1983, and passed away in 1998. She will forever be best remembered as the original Jane in the Tarzan movies (she was SO popular in that role that Jane was written out of the next few Tarzan movies, because MGM thought the public would not accept another actress in that role!). But she was also one of MGM's leading female stars of the 1930s, appearing in almost 50 movies between 1930 and 1942! Note that these stills were printed from the original plates, likely in the 1960s or 1970s by dealers, and are high quality, but are NOT originals from the 1930s. Be sure not to bid on these thinking they are from the 1940s or studio issued, as they are NOT! Condition: very good to fine. The RE-STRIKES are in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
 
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