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Auction History Result 9s355 GILDA GRAY deluxe 7.5x9.25 still 1920s seated portrait holding fan & looking angry by Abbe! Date Sold 9/17/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" [19 x 23 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Gilda Gray was an actress from the 1920s to the 1930s. She had a fascinating life! She was born as Marianna Michalska in Poland in 1901 and her parents died, and she was adopted from an orphanage by a couple who took her to America in 1909, and had her singing in a saloon as a teen. She became a cabaret dancer in New York City, and she invented "The Shimmy", where she wiggled her hips and shoulders, while maintaining an innocent expression. This earned her the nickname of "The Shimmy Girl" and became a massive success, but she scandalized many people. Still, Miss Gray rode it to great fame, including appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922. She entered movies, and had success in the middle 1920s. But she lost her life savings in the 1929 Stock Market Crash, and in 1931, she had a heart attack, and she had also had three failed marriages. She made one more film appearance in 1936 and she filed for bankruptcy in 1941. In 1946, she sued Columbia Pictures, claiming that their hit "Gilda" was based on her life, and after eight years, she received a "substantial" out of court settlement. She passed away in 1959 from food poisoning at the age of 58. Surely a movie of her fascinating up-and-down life will be made someday! Important Added Info: Note that this still (and a number of others we are currently auctioning) has a most unusual provenance. Our consignor's father worked at Paramount Studios between 1925 and 1927, and he was given a number of deluxe stills (and a few regular ones) from then-current films, and he kept them all the years since, and now they have been consigned to us! We put three great portraits from this collection (portraits of Louise Brooks, W.C. Fields, and Clara Bow) in our September Major Auction, and now we have many of the other individual stills in this auction of single stills. This is a wonderful opportunity to acquire these extremely rare stills (and other than some of them measuring under 8x10, which likely occurred prior to them being distributed, they are in quite nice condition, especially considering their age). Note that this still measures 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" [19 x 23 cm], but it has not been trimmed. Also note that this is a deluxe still printed on double weight paper stock. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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