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a lot of 7 wardrobe test photos from John Payne movies. Note that this is one of 17 bulk lots of wardrobe test photos we were recently consigned and are currently auctioning in 17 separate auctions. Such photos are many times more rare than regular stills, so this is a rare opportunity to acquire one or more of these. Sadly, this was all that our consignor had, so there won't be any other chances after this to purchase from this wonderful find. Note that all of these wardrobe test photos have a visible slate in the image that gives the details about the movies. The studios would use these images for reference if they needed to shoot additional footage at a later time. Note that the items in this lot are mostly from the 1940s. We do not provide a list of these items, but there are images of all of them.

John Payne was an actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He became an actor in 1936, but had only small success until he was signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1940, and he quickly became one of their top stars, and his most successful movie was the last one he made at Fox, "Miracle on 34th Street". He moved to RKO and reinvented himself as a tough film noir star, and he had a successful career over the next few decades (despite a car accident in 1961 which almost ended his life and sidelined him for two years while recovering). He was married to Anne Shirley from 1937 to 1943 (but she left him in January of 1942), Gloria DeHaven from 1944 to 1951, and Alexandra Crowell Curtis from 1951 to his death in 1989. Some of his other movies include: Kansas City Confidential, Tin Pan Alley, and Sun Valley Serenade. He passed away in 1989 at the age of 77.

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