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Auction History Result 5s0305 FAY WEBB deluxe 11x14 still 1920s portrait of Rudy Vallee's wife by Ruth Harriet Louise! Date Sold 9/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Fay Webb was an uncredited actress from the late 1920s for MGM. She married musician/actor Rudy Vallee in 1931 and divorced him in 1936, saying "Vallee is possessed of a violent, vicious, and ungovernable temper, and given to the use of blasphemy and the use of intemperate, vile, and vituperative language, particularly when applied to her". She also accused him of committing adultery with three women, including actress Alice Faye. We know that she was photographed by famed photographer Ruth Harriet Louise, but we don't know the circumstances. She passed away in 1936 at the age of 29. Important Added Info: Note that this is a deluxe still printed on double weight paper stock and it has an embossed photographer's stamp in one of the bottom corners. Note that this is one of 100 deluxe oversized stills (measuring 11" x 14" or similar) which were consigned to us, and they all originated from the legendary James Card Collection! James Card was a film preservationist who, starting in 1948, worked at the newly created George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and he helped build their massive motion picture collection, preserving movies that had been forgotten at that time. In 1955, he discovered that Louise Brooks was living as a recluse in New York City, and he persuaded her to move to Rochester, where she wrote many letters and some books about her legendary career. Not only do these 100 oversized stills (which we are auctioning individually) have wonderful "provenance", but there is also no fear that they are not from their first release (and many of the stills have photographer stamps on the back or embossed, and some have other information on the back, and several have a stamp that identifies them as being from the "James Card Collection"! Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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