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Photograph of Mary Pickford - Melbourne Spurr Photography
Photograph depicting Mary Pickford by Hollywood photographer Melbourne Spurr (Canadian-American, 1892-1979). Mary Pickford is depicted wearing a white sleeveless dress, sitting in a lounge chair, facing forward, the side of her face is the focal point. Pickford's blonde hair is shown in tight finger curls, her hands on her lap, with a single pearl necklace around her neck. Pickford looks innocently ahead while the photographer captures her side profile. Lovely original 1921 sepia toned photograph of silent film actress. From the Estates of Mary Pickford and Elizbeth Huggins her personal assistant. This one of the larger 11'H x 14"W photographs Mary would give to her personal friends and associates in her film studio (United Artists) (Mary gifted it to Elizabeth "Bess" Huggins and through her estate to us.)
Melbourne Spurr arrived in Hollywood around 1917 and worked for the noted photographer Fred Hartsook taking portraits of the early stars. Spurr photographed Mary Pickford while working at the Hartsook studio and so impressed her that she personally helped launch his career as a Hollywood portrait photographer. By the mid 1920s he was one of the premier celebrity portraitists in the world.
By this time the major movie studios were mandating that their stars could only be photographed by their own photographers. Spurr chose to keep his own studio, and was eventually shut out in favor of men like George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Eugene Robert Richee and others who worked for the big motion picture studios.
Spurr shined in Hollywood for one glorious decade - the "Roaring 20s" - but then moved on to photographing other notables like US presidents, artists, authors and dancers.
"Melbourne Spurr LA" lower left
"Credit Melbourne Spurr Photogrpaher, Los Angeles, California" on verso.
Presented in a white mat
Mat size: 20"H x 16"W
Paper size: 14"H x 11"W
Image: 13"H x 10"W
Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the American film industry, she co-founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Cited as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, and the "girl with the curls", she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. She was one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the Movies". She is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema.
She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929), and she also received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema.
- Creator:Melbourne Spurr (American)
- Creation Year:1920s
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:very Good. Some normal age toning to back paper.
- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
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