Christopher Strong

Katharine Hepburn (starring)
Dorothy Arzner (director)
Zoë Akins (screenwriter)
Gilbert Frankau (novel)
Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler (starring)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film, showing actors Colin Clive mansplaining while Katharine Hepburn is having none of it. Manuscript pencil annotations on the verso regarding cropping, along with a printed provenance label.

Based on the 1932 British novel by Gilbert Frankau, about a middle-aged politician who falls in love with a beautiful, adventurous aviator. Hepburn's second screen role, directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the few female directors in Hollywood from the silent era into the early 1940s.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.


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