Night Key

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1937. Vintage portrait photograph of Boris Karloff by photographer Ray Jones from the 1937 film. Photograph with two studio stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Jones and one noting Karloff in Universal Pictures, with several provenance stamps, layout annotations, and paper tape also on the verso.

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.

Boris Karloff stars as an embittered inventor of burglar alarms, who seeks vengeance on the man who stole his ideas to build his business empire.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light edgewear and creasing at the extremities.

Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horrors 1931-1946.

[Book #165751]