Bedtime for Bonzo

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1951. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1951 film, showing Ronald Reagan and Diana Lynn holding hands with Bonzo the chimp.

To prove to his hopefully soon-to-be father-in-law that he will not be a criminal just because his father was, a man and his fiancée try to raise a baby chimp like a human baby as proof of nurture being greater than nature.

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.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a short closed tear at the top edge.

[Book #164803]