The Unguarded Moment [The Gentle Web]
Universal City: Universal-International, 1956. Vintage keybook publicity photograph from the 1956 film noir, showing actress Esther Williams. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.
A high school music teacher is harassed and eventually assaulted by a popular student, only to have her side of the story ignored and her teaching career ruined after her reputation is destroyed by the incident. Williams' first non-swimming dramatic role since "The Hoodlum Saint" in 1946.
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. Near Fine.
Grant US.
[Book #164819]
Price: $85.00
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