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Auction History Result 7c350 ROSALIND RUSSELL color-glos 11x14 still '41 great smiling portrait in ruffled yellow dress! Date Sold 4/8/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Color-Glos 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Rosalind Russell (born Catherine Rosalind Russell) was an actress from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her middle name, which she used when she performed, came from the name of a ship! She was far from an overnight success. She did not start acting in movies until she was 27, and for several years, she was used by MGM to keep Myrna Loy from demanding more money! She mostly had secondary parts. In 1939, her skill at comedy was discovered when she played one of the leads in The Women, and that led to her role in His Girl Friday, playing a part written for a man. She alternated between making movies and appearing on the stage, and she had great success on both with Auntie Mame (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film). Some of her other movies include: Sister Kenny (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), My Sister Eileen (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and Mourning Becomes Electra (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film). She passed away in 1976 at the age of 69. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a special set of 25 "color-glos" 11" x 14" portrait stills created by MGM in 1941 (see below for what "color-glos" means). They took wonderful portraits by top Hollywood photographers of their top stars (some had been taken prior to 1941, and were re-used at this time) and they put them into this special set of portraits, each of which has a facsimile autograph that is within the printing of the still (the still has not been personally autographed). THESE ARE THE NICEST SUCH PORTRAITS I HAVE EVER SEEN! I have seen a tiny number of these over the past decades, but I was never aware that there was an entire set of them, until a consignor surfaced with this set, which was mailed to a theater in an MGM envelope. We don't know the exact date of these stills, but it seems extremely likely that they are from 1941, both based on the stars pictured, and their ages, and also because Greta Garbo was included, and she made her final movie in 1941. We are auctioning each of the 25 in its own individual auction. This is a likely once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire any or all of these wonderful portraits. Note that on a few of them, we were able to identify the photographer who took the image, and on those we put that information at the start of this text. But we are certain that all of them are from "name" Hollywood photographers, and we ask anyone who knows who took the unidentified ones to please share that information with us! More about "color glos" stills: they are printed on a photo type of paper and have a glossier front, with more vivid colors. This is something the studios experimented with in the late 1930s and early 1940s, for both 8x10 stills and 11x14 stills, and it was primarily used with the very best movies, including Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Citizen Kane.. Condition: fine. The still is in excellent condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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