The Chocolate Soldier

Roy Del Ruth (director)
Ferenc Molnar (play)
Bert Lynch (photographer)
Leonard Lee, Keith Winter (screenwriters)
Nelson Eddy, Rise Stevens, Nigel Bruce (starring)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Two vintage oversize, borderless, double weight photographs from the 1941 musical. Signed, struck, and mounted by MGM photographer Bert Lynch.

Loosely based on Ferenc Molnar’s 1924 play Testor, which had previously been adapted to film in 1931 as The Guardsman, about husband who tests his wife's fidelity by disguising himself as another man, which she sees through immediately, and tortures him accordingly. The feature film debut of opera star Rise Stevens. Nominated for three Academy Awards.

Photographs 12.75 x 9.75 and 9.75 x 12.75 inches, mounted to 16 x 20 inches. Photographs Near Fine with some light edgewear. Boards very good plus with some edgewear, toning at edge and tidemark most evident on versos.


[Book #146417]