Movie stars at Mayfair ball – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Movie stars at Mayfair ball in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Movie stars at Mayfair ball
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Harold Lloyd, the silent-comedy star best known for hanging from a clock face in "Safety Last!" (1923), is the figure this print singles out from the crowd of Hollywood names gathered at a Mayfair ball in 1936. Lloyd was among the most popular box-office draws of the 1920s and was one of the few silent-era comedians to keep his stardom through the transition to sound. Society balls of this kind, held at Los Angeles and Hollywood venues, were a regular stage for studio publicity, and photographs like this one helped set the glamour and social standing of the film colony for newspaper and magazine readers.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1936 |
| Subjects | Lloyd, Harold,--1893-1971. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,274 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-186056 |
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