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Auction History Result 4d169 BETTY GRABLE/HANK LUISETTI/ELEANORE WHITNEY 6x8 news photo 1938 from Campus Confessions! Date Sold 2/24/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 6" x 8" [15 x 20 cm] News Photo (Learn More) Betty Grable was an actress from the 1930s to the 1950s, often appearing in romantic musicals. Some of her movies include: Million Dollar Legs, Tin Pan Alley, Moon Over Miami, and Down Argentine Way. She is perhaps best remembered for her famous sexy legs, and one of her pin-up images, which was one of the absolute most popular ones displayed by soldiers during World War II (at one time, her legs were insured for $1,000,000 by Lloyds of London!). She was married to actor Jackie Coogan, and then later to bandleader Harry James (with whom she had two children). She passed away in 1973 at the age of 56 AND Hank Luisetti was a college basketball sports player from the 1930s to the 1940s, playing for Stanford. He then served in the Navy in World War II, contracting spinal meningitis that ended his basketball career. Luisetti developed an early version of the jump shot and is considered a major innovator for the history basketball. Luisetti also appeared in one movie: Campus Confessions. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 86 AND Eleanore Whitney (born Eleanor Wittenberg, and at first billed as "Eleanor Whitney") was an actress in the 1930s. In 1937, Modern Screen reported that she broke the World Record for the fastest tap-dancing: 60 taps in four seconds. She only made a total of 14 movies, and in 1939, at the age of 22, she married well, and never made another movie, although she lived to be 66 years old, passing away in 1983. Some of her movies include: Rose Bowl, Thrill of a Lifetime, Turn Off the Moon, Blonde Trouble, and The Big Broadcast of 1937. She passed away in 1983 at the age of 66. Important Added Info: Note that this news photo measures 6" x 8" [15 x 20 cm]. Condition: good. There is faint blue ink transfer from a stamp in the man's arm and in the girl's face at right. See our super-sized images to get a good sense of the condition of this still. Learn More about condition grades 
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