Original keybook portrait photograph of Leatrice Joy by photographer Ray Jones, 1939

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1939. Vintage keybook portrait photograph photograph of Leatrice Joy by photographer Ray Jones, 1939, with two studio stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Jones and one noting Joy "in Universal Pictures."

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.

A leading silent-film actress, Leatrice Joy starred in over 60 films between 1915 and 1951. In 1917, in the relatively young film colony in Hollywood, Joy began appearing in comedy shorts opposite Billy West and Oliver Hardy, and in the 1920s became a protégée of Cecil B. DeMille and starred in several of DeMille's films, including "The Ten Commandments" (1923), "Manslaughter" (1922), and "Triumph" (1924), as well as the female lead in such films as, "Vanity" (1927), "The Blue Danube" (1928), and "The Dressmaker from Paris" (1925). With the advent of talkies, Joy's career faltered, and in 1931 she went into retirement, periodically emerging for such films as "First Love" (1939), "Red Stallion in the Rockies" (1949), and "Love Nest" (1951), her final film role. Joy is also of note as credited with beginning the bobbed-hair craze of the 1920s.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with archival tape on the top of verso at the keybook punch holes.

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