Leadbelly

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1976. Collection of eleven vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film. With folded mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, and two with a provenance stamp to the verso.

A dramatization of the troubled early life of African American folk singer Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, chronicling the musician's youth in the segregated south and his time in prison, while focusing on Ledbetter's efforts to be a free man through the music he created.

Set in Louisiana and Texas, shot on location in various locations throughout Texas.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #148659]