Louisiana Purchase

Irving Cummings (director)
Irving Berlin (music, lyrics)
Morrie Ryskind (book)
Buddy G. DeSylva, Morrie Ryskind, Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields (screenwriters)
Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Irene Bordoni, Dona Drake (starring)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1941. Collection of two vintage borderless studio still photographs and one vintage double-weight reference photograph from the 1941 musical film. One with the stamp of Consolidated Poster Service on the verso, along with a provenance stamp.

Based on Irving Berlin and Morrie Ryskind's 1940 Broadway play. A satirical take on political corruption set in Louisiana, following a bumbling senator investigating graft throughout the state who himself becomes the target of a crooked political scheme.

Set in Louisiana.

Two photographs 9 x 7.75 inches, one photograph 6 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus, lightly creased, one with two small closed tears to the bottom edge.


[Book #150928]