Can't Help Singing

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1944 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.

In the early years of the Gold Rush, a senator's daughter takes a wagon train west in order to follow her boyfriend, a lieutenant in the US cavalry. One of the most expensive productions in Universal's history, and the only Technicolor film in which Deanna Durbin appeared.

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.

Shot on location in Utah and California.

10 x 8 inches. Faint scratches on the recto, else Near Fine.

[Book #164516]