"Jungle Jim" 1936
2 Vintage Original Photographs
RAYMOND HATTON AND GRANT WITHERS
"JUNGLE JIM." Two (2) Vintage Original Photographs (not signed)
from the 1936 film "Jungle Jim."
1). 3/4 length shot of Raymond Hatton holding his rifle wearing on old
straw hat holding back Grant Withers.
Information slip on the back reads: "'JUNGLE JIM' (UNIVERSAL) Jungle
Jim (Grant Withers) listens apprehensively as they hear jungle drums beat
out The Cobra's order for their death."
With green rubberstamp on the back that reads: "APPROVED
ADVERTISING ADVISORY COUNCIL SEPT. 30, 1936."
2). 3/4 length shot of Grant Withers and Raymond Hatton surrounded by
natives with spear pointed at them with Henry Brandon and Betty Jane
Rhodes in the background
Photographs are on heavy weight stock; approximately 10" x 8"; very good
(minor signs of handling); 1936.
"Jungle Jim" was released in 1936, directed by Ford Beebe and Clifford
Smith from a screenplay by Wyndham Gittens and Norman S. Hall.
Starring: Grant Withers; Betty Jane Rhodes; Raymond Hatton; Evelyn
Brent; Henry Brandon; Bryant Washburn; Claude King; Selmer Jackson;
Al Bridge; Paul Sutton; Al Duvall; Frank Mayo; J.P. McGowan; Frank
McGlynn Jr.
Provenance: from the estate of producer Alex Gordon.
Raymond Hatton (1887-1971), born July 17, 1887, Red Oak, Iowa; died
October 21, 1971, Palmdale, California; The son of a physician, appeared
in Hollywood's first feature film, "The Squaw Man" 1913 and then in
almost 500 other pictures. In early silents he formed a comedy team with
big, burly Wallace Beery in the late 1920's. He was best known as the
tobacco-chewing, rip-snorting Rusty Joslin in the "Three Mesquiteers"
series. He was also in the Rough Riders series with Buck Jones and
appeared as Johnny Mack Brown's sidekick as well. His last Western was,
fittingly, "Requiem for a Gunfighter"; other films include: "Male and
Female" 1919; The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 1923; "In Cold Blood"
1967.
Grant Withers (1904-1959), born Granville G. Withers, January 17, 1904,
Pueblo, Colorado; died March 27, 1959 (suicide), North Hollywood,
California; American screen/television actor; married to a 17 year old
Loretta Young (1930-1931 - annulled); film career 1926-58.
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