[HOLLYWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 17 photographic portrait negatives and transparencies of Veronica Lake. c. 1940.
8 x 10 in. Black-and-white negatives and color transparencies of American actress Veronica Lake as photographed by George Hurrell, Eugene Robert Richee, and A.L. "Whitey" Scafer. Portrait numbers P2745-177, 202, 365, 423, 461, 479, 528, 543, 578, 585/586, 587, c658 and P2745-n668 stenciled to margins in india ink.
Provenance: Profiles in History, 28 July 2013, sale 56 lot 179.
Veronica Lake was one of the most iconic femme fatales of the 1940s, with starring roles in This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key, and I Married A Witch.
[With]: A group of 3 film negatives depicting Veronica Lake in The Glass Key, Katherine Hepburn in Keeper of the Flame, and Cary Grant. c. 1940s.
This lot is located in Chicago.
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