I Loved You Wednesday (Two original publicity photographs of Warner Baxter

N.p. Fox Film Corporation, 1932-1933. Two vintage publicity photographs of Warner Baxter, one double weight photograph and one keybook photograph, circa early 1930s, each with two Fox Films stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Ray Jones and one for actor Baxter, and a mimeo snipe on the verso of the keybook photograph announcing Baxter's next film, "I Loved You Wednesday," released in 1933.

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

Warner Baxter was a popular film actor who starred in over 100 films between 1914 and 1950. A matinée idol during the silent era, Baxter rose to prominence as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film "In Old Arizona," for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor at the second Academy Awards. In 1936, he starred in John Ford's "The Prisoner of Shark Island," largely considered his finest role. By the late 1930s, he openly talked of retiring from the industry, and by the mid-1940s suffered a nervous breakdown, after which he began to largely focus on film series work in order to reduce his stress, most notably in the "Crime Doctor" mysteries, a series of low-budget mysteries produced by Columbia Pictures from 1943-1949.

Double-weight photograph, 7.75 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine.

Keybook photograph, 7.75 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus, with a small chip to the top left corner and some modest tearing at the top hole punches.

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