Original photograph of the home garden of film producer Carl Laemmle, circa 1935

N.p. N.p., Circa 1935. Vintage double weight photograph of the home garden of Universal film producer Carl Laemmle, circa 1935. Culver Service stamps and label on the verso, along with the credit stamp of photographer Ray Jones.

Laemmle opened Universal Studios Hollywood on March 15, 1915, then the largest motion picture production facility in the world. He maintained control over the company until 1936, when the rising costs (including an unprecedented $750,000 production loan) of the 1936 film "Show Boat" led stockholders to dismiss both Laemmle and his son Carl Jr. from the studio.

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.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #165566]