Original publicity photograph of Elyse Knox

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Vintage wartime publicity photograph of actress Elyse Knox, showing the actress looking happily at a knife stabbed through a pumpkin carved with a wartime "yellow peril" depiction of an Japanese face. Mimeo snipe on the verso.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Elyse Knox was signed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1939, but found her greatest success with Universal, where she starred in 11 films throughout the 1940s, usually appearing as an ingenue.

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.

[Book #165985]