Radio Stage Film Star Margot Stevenson Art Deco 1930s Photograph The Shadow Star

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Radio Stage Film Star Margot Stevenson Art Deco 1930s Photograph The Shadow Star:
$21.50

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Measures 7 7/8\" x 9 3/4\" on a glossy single-weight paper stock.Ink stamps and publisher\'s cropping notations on verso.
CONDITION: This vintage, silver gelatin photograph is in fine condition with only minor edge wear in the upper margin. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Stevenson was born Margaret Helen Stevenson on February 8, 1912 in New York City to actor Charles Alexander Stevenson and Frances Riley. She performed regionally, in summer stock, and on the West End before appearing over a dozen Broadway shows. She starred in the radio series \"The Shadow\" opposite Orson Welles. She married Robert Russell and then Val Avery, with whom she had her daughter Margot Avery.
Film/TV Credits:Film credits include: \"Valley of the Dolls,\" \"Flight Angels,\" \"Going in Style,\" \"The Brotherhood,\" \"Invisible Stripes,\" \"Rabbit, Run,\" and \"Castle on the Hudson.\" Television credits include: \"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,\" \"The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse,\" \"Rheingold Theatre,\" and \"How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days.\"
Biography: IBDB
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Ben Pinchot established his photographic studio in 1927 renting the fifth floor of the building on the northeast corner of 48th Street & Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. He immediately made an impression as a new talent among theatrical photographers. In December 1932 he declared bankruptcy, in order to break his lease, and listed liabilities of $73,000 and no assets. In 1933, after the bankruptcy was discharged, he moved with his wife, the novelist Ann Pinchot to an apartment at 52 52nd Street, the raffish center of jazz and after-hours nightlife in Manhattan. There he fashioned a studio in the apartment and his wife hosted a famous salon where the musicians playing on \"Swing Street,\" actors, and writers consorted.
From 1933 until the birth of their daughter in 1937, the apartment was one of the vibrant centers of artistic life in the city.In 1935 he published with Bridgman Publishers,along with a concurrent London publication by John Lane, a collection of blackand white drape shotsand nudes entitled,Female Form. 1934 marked the year of his arrival as a force in the market, when he suddenly became an A-list photographer, one whom a producer or a magazine editor would call first (Florence VandammorAlfredo Valentewere also on that list.)In the mid-1940s the Pinochots moved to Stanford, Connecticut, and became active in civic life there.
The Pinchots enjoyed a collaborative marriage, with Pinochot contributing images and sometimes prose to Ann\'s books, particularly 1949\'sHear This Woman. One offshoot of his involvement with his wife\'s literary engagements was his increasing interest in photographing authors. In the late 1930s and early 1940s his portraits of novelists and poets were ubiquitous in American newspapers and magazines.
Biography: NY Times
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