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Auction History Result 2f2004 ROBERT MONTGOMERY/LOUIS B. MAYER/NORMA SHEARER 8x10.25 news photo 1932 at MGM luncheon! Date Sold 6/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] News Photo (Learn More) Robert Montgomery (born Henry Montgomery Jr.) was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was born in New York in 1904 into a rich family, but his father died and the family was broke, and Robert worked at many jobs. He made it to the Broadway stage and then to Hollywood in 1929. His big break came when Norma Shearer picked him to play opposite her in "Private Lives" in 1931. He was a major star of the 1930s and 1940s, and in order to keep from getting typecast, he kept taking very different roles. Some of his movies include: Night Must Fall (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), They Were Expendable, Here Comes Mr. Jordan (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Lady in the Lake (as Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe), and The Divorcee. He had a popular TV show in the 1950s, "Robert Montgomery Presents". His daughter, Elizabeth Montgomery, became a major star as well, but of course, she was more of a TV actress, best remembered for TV's "Bewitched". He passed away in 1981 at the age of 77. AND Louis B. Mayer was a legendary producer from the 1910s to the 1950s. He founded his own production company in the 1910s, and later later merged with Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Metro Pictures to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which he headed from 1924 to 1951! He passed away in 1957 at the age of 73. AND Norma Shearer was the great MGM leading lady of the 1920s and 1930s. She was married to studio head Irving Thalberg in 1927, and that seemed to greatly help her career, and his untimely death in 1936 seemed to coincide with the decline of her career. But that is probably really unfair, because while her marriage to Thalberg greatly helped her get top parts, she did wonderfully in many major movies! Some of her movies include: Romeo & Juliet (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Marie Antoinette (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), The Divorcee (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Escape, Free Soul (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Their Own Desire (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and The Women. She passed away in 1983 at the age of 80. Important Added Info: Note that the snipe on the back of this cool candid tells that these great MGM stars were attending the National Convention of the Junior League in Los Angeles on the MGM lot. On the dais was Robert Montgomery, Mrs. John G. Pratt (the new president), Louis B. Mayer, Mrs. Roger Sperry (the retiring president), and Norma Shearer. Condition: very good. There are some creases around the edges, but they are mostly only noticeable when the still is tilted to the light. Learn More about condition grades 
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