Mack Sennett Comedies Silent Star Adorable Alice Day Vintage 1920s Photograph NR
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:3014925 | Size: 8" x 10" |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Modified Item: No |
| Subject: Alice Day | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Photographer: George F. Cannons |
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original 1920s photograph of early Hollywood film star, Alice Day, who got her start in her teens as a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty. Shot by noted early Hollywood photographer George F. Cannons, this soft focus still is dreamy and appealing. A great artifact from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Measures 8" x 10" on a single-weight glossy paper stock.Ink stamps on verso.
CONDITION: Fine condition with scattered edge and corner wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Alice Day began her film career as a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty in her mid-teens, and by age 18 was starring in features. Her younger sister, Marceline Day, was also an actress, but Alice never managed to eclipse her sister's career. She was soon working mainly in B pictures and shorts, and managed to stay steadily employed at various studios until 1932 when she retired after Gold (1932).
- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2
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George Cannons was born July 8, 1896 and went to Hollywood after the Great War. His reputation as a stills photographer was first established during the silent film period working for Mack Sennett[ and specialized in portraits of Sennett's bathing beauties. In the early 1930s he continued working in Hollywood with portraits of leading stars including Dolores del Ríoand Jean Harlow. After returning to England in 1934 he set up his own studio in Dover Street in central London known as Cannons of Hollywood and exploited his Hollywood credentials and specialised in glamour portraits.
Cannons found work hard to come by due to the number of established photographers in London's West End. This led Cannons to seek work as a stills photographer for J. Arthur Rank who was based at Pinewood Studios and he was assigned to work with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on two of their finest films. In 1946 he created the colour portraits of Jean Simmons during the filming of Black Narcissus. These images were featured in film annuals like Film Review by F. Maurice Speed.
In 1948 he was promoted to the position of principal stills photographer on The Red Shoes and responsible for the iconic stills of Moira Shearer during the ballet sequence. His publicity portraits of Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Leonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina for The Red Shoes are also particularly striking. This undoubtedly elevated his career and along with Fred Daniels he was credited as the best portrait photographer to work with Powell and Pressburger. He continued to work for the Rank Organisation and in 1949 he took a series of portraits of Valerie Hobson which are in the National Portrait Gallery collection in London. He died in 1972.
Biography: Wikipedia
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