The Lady from Shanghai

Orson Welles (director, screenwriter, starring)
Robert Coburn (photographer), Rita Hayworth (starring)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, circa 1946-1947. Vintage photograph of Rita Hayworth, taken for the 1947 film by Columbia Pictures special photographer Robert Coburn. With Coburn's stamp on the verso.

Robert Coburn was one of the most influential portrait photographers working in the major Hollywood movie studios from the 1930s to 1960s. His star subjects included Hayworth, Joan Crawford, Kim Novak, Carole Lombard, William Holden, Glenn Ford, and Orson Welles. Coburn’s most famous portraits immortalized Hollywood’s greatest icons and helped to define this era as the Golden Age of Cinema. In 1940, Coburn began a twenty-year career with Columbia Pictures as the head of the still production department and the studio’s chief portrait photographer for many landmark films including “Picnic”, “Gilda”, and “The Big Heat”.

8 x 10 inches. Fine.


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