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Maureen O'Sullivan – Antique Print

Maureen O'Sullivan, [between 1950 and 1960] — historic photograph
Maureen O'Sullivan, [between 1950 and 1960]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Maureen O'Sullivan, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Maureen O'Sullivan

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Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998) was an Irish-born actress whose career spanned stage and screen from the early 1930s, and this 1950s portrait comes from the Ashley Famous Agency, a talent agency whose publicity stills circulated widely among studios, newspapers and magazines. O'Sullivan was best known for playing Jane opposite Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s, a role that made her one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. By the 1950s she had moved into more varied work on stage and television, and agency portraits like this one were used to keep working actors in front of casting directors and editors. The record gives no photographer's name, so the print's exact studio origin is uncertain.

Created / published[between 1950 and 1960]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1950-1960.Photographic prints 1950-1960.
NotesPhotoprint from AFA (Ashley Famous Agency, Inc.)
SubjectsO'Sullivan, Maureen,--1911-1998.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,272 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182528

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