BEAUTIFUL KAREN MORLEY LARGE GEORGE HURRELL PORTRAIT NR

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ITEM: You are bidding on a 1932 large format double weight close up portrait photograph of Karen Morley, promoting Flesh her pre-code film with Metro Goldwyn Mayer, by George Hurrell. This features Morley at her most erotically entrancing and is everything people love about George Hurrell, the lighting, focus, and style are all astonishing. Blindstamped lower right and inkstamped on verso, this is a great glamorous view of the star, verso reads "Karen Morley in Flesh, Loew's State starts Thurs Dec 8" This original double weight large format M-G-M vintage movie still photograph by George Hurrell with semi gloss finish is inkstamped by photographer and studio, measures 10" x 13" with margins.

CONDITION: This 1st generation original double weight photograph is in very fine-near mint condition with no issues. The image looks incredible and this is a rare beauty. The corners are sharp and this is as good as it gets of an incredible beauty by a masterful artist; 100% guaranteed vintage and original.

Mini Biography Born Mildred Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa on December 12, 1909, Karen Morley was adopted by a well-to-do family who moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1920s. She enrolled at Hollywood High School and studied for a career in medicine at UCLA, but a class in theater changed her career ambitions. After studying at Pasadena Playhouse, she was signed by Fox Studios and her big chance came when producer Howard Hughes selected her to play the blond moll in the 1932 crime epic, Scarface (1932), Morley was put on a contract by MGM and starred in such early 1930s movies as Mata Hari (1931) (with Greta Garbo), Arsène Lupin (1932) (with John Barrymore), Dinner at Eight (1933) (with Jean Harlow), as well as films with Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery and Boris Karloff. In 1934, Morley left MGM after arguments about her roles and her private life, including her intention to start a family and her marriage to director Charles Vidor. She continued working as a freelance performer, appearing in King Vidor's Our Daily Bread (1934), Michael Curtiz' Black Fury (1935) and Pride and Prejudice (1940). In 1947, her screen career came to a halt when she testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and refused to answer questions about her possible enrollment in the Communist Party. Afterward, she continued promoting left-wing causes and married actor Lloyd Gough. In 1954, she ran unsuccessfully as a New York lieutenant governor candidate for the American Labor Party. Morley died March 8, 2003 at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills. IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous