Original portrait photograph of Ed Sullivan by photographer Ray Jones, circa 1939

Universal City: Universal Pictures, Circa 1939. Vintage portrait photograph of Ed Sullivan by photographer Ray Jones, circa 1939, with two Universal Pictures studio stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Jones and one noting Sullivan.

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 broadcasting pioneer of American television, Ed Sullivan was a television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Synicate, but is undoubtedly best known as the host of the television variety program "Toast of the Town," which began broadcasting in 1948, and in 1955 was renamed "The Ed Sullivan Show," which was broadcast till 1971, the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. Sullivan worked on two films for Universal Pictures, the 1939 film "Big Town Czar," for which he was given a story credit and in which he appeared as a narrator and newspaper columnist, and the 1940 film "Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me," for which he was given a story credit.

8 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus, with faint rubbing and creasing.

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