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Auction History Result 1b0062 VERA RALSTON color 15x18.5 still 1948 great portrait in Chinese gown over bamboo background! Date Sold 11/23/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Oversized Movie Still (measures 15" x 18 1/2" [38 x 47 cm]) (Learn More) Vera Hruba was a Czechoslovakian ice skater who started in movies performing her ice skating routines, and her English was so limited she was forced to learn her lines phonetically! After her early ice skating movies, she became the protege of Republic Pictures studio head Herbert Yates, and they married in 1952. He starred her in a series of movies, and gave her an added a last name, "Ralston", making her "Vera Hruba Ralston", and later dropped the "Hruba", just becoming "Vera Ralston", and I guess the idea was to make her sound less "foreign". Her movies were expensive flops (even with John Wayne in some!), partially because she had a VERY thick accent, and Yates was fired from Republic in 1958 (partially because he insisted on starring his wife in movies that lost money), at which point Ralston wisely retired. Yates passed away in 1966 and Ralston inherited $10 million, and she lived until 2003, passing away at the age of 79. Some of her movies include: Timberjack, The Fighting Kentuckian, and Ice-Capades Important Added Info: Note that this still is one of seven similar color stills we were consigned that are all from the late 1940s and early 1950s. We don't know for what purpose they were created, and they are an unusual size. They might have been used in magazines, or they might have been framed and displayed somewhere like a restaurant or a studio commissary. Some have handwritten dates and photographer names on the back, and that is all we know about them. If anyone knows more about these, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that this still measures 15" x 18 1/2" [38 x 47 cm]. Condition: good to very good. The still was attached to a mat and there is paper residue over the entire back of it. Learn More about condition grades 
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