Vintage 1948 Film Noir I Love Trouble Janet Blair Exquisite Portrait Photograph
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original 1948 stunning portrait photograph of actress, singer and songwriter, Jane Blair, for Columbia Pictures' film noir crime drama, I Love Trouble. Here, Blair is captured in a breathtaking profile view, stylish and elegant. A WWII pin-up in Yank magazine, beautiful Blair starred in films, television and the stage during her long career. Anything and everything we love about the glitz and glamour during the Golden Age of Hollywood is embodied ...in this sublime still.
Measures 8" x 10" on single weight, glossy paper stock. Hand notation on verso.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Janet Blair:
Janet Blair (1921 – 2007) was a big-band singer who became a popular American film and television actress. Blair began her acting career on film in 1941, being placed under contract to Columbia Pictures. Before that, she was a featured singer in the Hal Kemp Orchestra. During World War II, she appeared as the pin-up girl in the March 1944 issue of Yank magazine. She made a string of successful pictures, although she is today best remembered for playing Rosalind Russell's sister in My Sister Eileen (1942) and Rita Hayworth's best friend in Tonight and Every Night (1945).
In the 1947 film The Fabulous Dorseys, Blair returned to her musical roots, portraying a singer. In the late 1940s, Blair had star billing in the crime drama I Love Trouble and the comedy The Fuller Brush Man (both 1948), but was dropped by Columbia and did not return to pictures for several years.She made a rare dramatic appearance in the British horror film Night of the Eagle (1962). She played the wife of Tony Randall in the comedy Boy's Night Out, a motion picture released in the same year, which starred James Garner and Kim Novak.In 1950, Blair took the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the U.S touring production of the stage musical South Pacific, making more than 1, 200 performances in three years. "[I] never missed a performance", she noted proudly. During the tour, she also married her second husband, producer-director Nick Mayo, and they became parents of Amanda and Andrew.Blair also starred in the Broadway comedy You Never Can Tell in 1953. She was a star musical performer in premier nightclubs and supper clubs such as the Empire Room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.Blair appeared on television in various variety-show guest appearances—saying, "I think I appeared on the Milton Berle Show more than any other guest". She was a cast member during the 1956–1957 TV season on Caesar's Hour, a comedy-variety series starring Sid Caesar.Biography: Wikipedia
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Measures 8" x 10" on single weight, glossy paper stock. Hand notation on verso.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Janet Blair:
Janet Blair (1921 – 2007) was a big-band singer who became a popular American film and television actress. Blair began her acting career on film in 1941, being placed under contract to Columbia Pictures. Before that, she was a featured singer in the Hal Kemp Orchestra. During World War II, she appeared as the pin-up girl in the March 1944 issue of Yank magazine. She made a string of successful pictures, although she is today best remembered for playing Rosalind Russell's sister in My Sister Eileen (1942) and Rita Hayworth's best friend in Tonight and Every Night (1945).
In the 1947 film The Fabulous Dorseys, Blair returned to her musical roots, portraying a singer. In the late 1940s, Blair had star billing in the crime drama I Love Trouble and the comedy The Fuller Brush Man (both 1948), but was dropped by Columbia and did not return to pictures for several years.She made a rare dramatic appearance in the British horror film Night of the Eagle (1962). She played the wife of Tony Randall in the comedy Boy's Night Out, a motion picture released in the same year, which starred James Garner and Kim Novak.In 1950, Blair took the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the U.S touring production of the stage musical South Pacific, making more than 1, 200 performances in three years. "[I] never missed a performance", she noted proudly. During the tour, she also married her second husband, producer-director Nick Mayo, and they became parents of Amanda and Andrew.Blair also starred in the Broadway comedy You Never Can Tell in 1953. She was a star musical performer in premier nightclubs and supper clubs such as the Empire Room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.Blair appeared on television in various variety-show guest appearances—saying, "I think I appeared on the Milton Berle Show more than any other guest". She was a cast member during the 1956–1957 TV season on Caesar's Hour, a comedy-variety series starring Sid Caesar.Biography: Wikipedia
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