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| Leila Hyams as Patriotic Pin-Up |
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| Artist: | Ruth Harriet Louise |
| Date: | 1920s |
| Medium: | Gelatin Silver on Large Format Double Weight Photostock |
| Dimensions: | 10" x 13" |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Original Use: | Hollywood Glamour Art |
| Price: | $550.00
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| Above: Full view |
Jazz age starlet Leila Hyams is shown as a pin-up Yankee Doodle Dandy in this 1920s jazz age patriotic Hollywood portrait. This large format double weight still by pre-eminent glamour photographer Ruth Harriet Louise evokes the wild fun of the post World War I roaring '20s. This vintage gallery view was hand printed by the photographer and is blindstamped lower right and inkstamped on verso.
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| Above: Detail of Leila Hyams |
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| Above: Blindstamp lower left |
by Hal Erickson
Born into a family of vaudevillians (her parents were the popular "bickering" comedy team of Johnny Hyams and Leila McIntyre), Leila Hyams started out as a juvenile performer. Leila's movie career was an outgrowth of her many appearances in magazine advertisements of the 1920s. She often played conventional ingenues, though she was allowed a bit more three-dimensionality in such roles as a baseball team owner in The Busher (1927), the prime murder suspect in The Thirteenth Chair (1929), and the wisecracking circus-artiste heroine in Freaks (1932). Hyams' finest film hour was as the good-natured saloon girl who teaches Roland Young how to play the drums in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). Retiring from the screen in 1936, Leila Hyams maintained her show business contacts through the activities of her husband, agent Phil Berg.
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| Above: Verso view |
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