Vibrant Jazz Age Flapper Madge Bellamy Mother Knows Best Vintage Photograph 1928
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:2780827 | Size: 8" x 10" |
| Modified Item: No | Subject: Madge Bellamy |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: United States | Film: Mother Knows Best (1928) |
| Original/Reproduction: Original |
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original Fox Film production still photograph from the 1928 film Mother Knows Best. The film stars Madge Bellamy who is seen here as a vivacious Jazz Age flapper party girl decked out in pearls and feathers. This film was Fox's first part talkie. This is a wonderful piece of early Hollywood memorabilia and a beautiful portrait of Bellamy during the height of her career.
A popular leading lady in the 1920s, Bellamy's career declined with the introduction of sound and ended completely following a romantic scandal in 1943 when she was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon after firing at her former lover, wealthy lumber executive Albert Stanwood Murphy, three times.
Measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock.
Typed studio text and ink stamp on verso.
CONDITION: Fine condition with corner wear as well as general storage/handling wear throughout. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Madge got her start in theater working with a stock company in Denver. Put under a personal contract by a Broadway producer, Madge got her big break when she replaced Helen Hayes in the Broadway play "Dear Brutus". Her success as a stage actress led to her being signed by Fox Pictures. After appearing in a number of movies in the early 20's, Madge was best remembered for her performances in 'Lorna Doone (1922)' and 'The Iron Horse (1924)'. A strong will contrasted the screen image of innocence and led to disagreements over roles by the late 20's. Madge had been cast in a number of movies each year and was in Fox's first dialogue feature 'Mother Knows Best (1928)'. But her refusal to work in the film 'The Trial of Mary Dugan', which was bought expressly for her, led to her contract with Fox being terminated. It would be 3 years until she returned to the screen in the cult favorite 'White Zombie (1932)' with Bela Lugosi, but her career was not going anywhere as Madge was just one of those old silent stars. For the next few years, she appeared in a small number of low budget films and by 1936 her film career was over. In 1943, she would again appear in the headlines when she shot her lover, millionaire A. Stanford Murphy after he jilted her to marry another woman.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tony Fontana
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