Heartbeat

Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou (starring)
Sam Wood (director)
Hans Wilhelm, Max Kolpé, Michael Duran (screenwriters)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1946. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Mikhail Rasumny from the 1946 film, with two editorial annotations in manuscript wax pencil and ink on the recto, and a "Silver Screen Archives" provenance stamp on the verso.

A remake of the 1940 French film "Battement de cœur," directed by Henri Decoin, and starring Danielle Darrieux and Claude Dauphin. Ginger Rogers stars as the young reform school runaway, Arlette, who joins a pickpocket academy in Paris and ends up falling in love with the handsome diplomat she's been tasked to steal from, played by Aumont.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942.


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