Original publicity photograph of Joyce Compton, circa 1933

Universal City: Universal Pictures, Circa 1933. Vintage keybook publicity photograph of actress Joyce Compton in a fur-lined jacket and silk dress, circa 1933. Mimeo snipe on the verso.

From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.

Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Joyce Compton appeared extensively in films from the mid-1920s through the 1950s, most notably in "Bedtime Story" (1941) and "Christmas in Connecticut" (1945).

8 x 10 inches. Good, with an inch-long closed tear on the right edge, and light creasing at the bottom right corner.

[Book #162038]