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Norma Shearer camera negative from The Divorcee by George Hurrell

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Norma Shearer camera negative from The Divorcee by George Hurrell
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(M-G-M, Oct., 1929) Black-and-white 8 x 10 in. camera negative on nitrate film of Norma Shearer from The Divorcee by George Hurrell; with EASTMAN- KODAK etched on the border, NORMA SHEARER – METRO GOLDWYN-MAYER and MG-3497 in India ink and extensive retouching. Private commission and first sitting at Lafayette Park studio, from which Hurrell made only 25 prints, one of each. Fewer than ten negatives from this sitting survive; all with Hurrell’s personal retouching. Reproduced on p. 21 of Hurrell’s Hollywood Portraits by Mark A. Vieira. Very fine.