DOROTHY MACKAILL. Vintage 11x14 linen light sepia tone three-qarter length glamour portrait, circa 1932, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen, "To Andy -/For me a picture is incomplete without you/With much appreciation!!!/Dorothy Mackaill." Fine condition, with pinholes and bends to each corner tip; patches of faint silvering, completely invisible when the image is viewed head on; and a three-qarter inch tear at the top center, slightly intruding into the background but easily matted out. A well-liked leading lady of the silent screen throughout the 1920s, Dorothy Mackaill made a smooth transition to sound. The deceptively prim-looking actress soon fell afoul of Legion of Decency types, however, for her appearances in lurid melodramas with titles such as Safe in Hell and Kept Husbands (both 1931). She left Hollywood for good in 1937 at age 34 and moved permanently to Hawaii, where she made two surprise appearances on television's "Hawaii Five-O" in the late 1970s. Signed photographs in oversize format are quite uncommon.
$125 |
