Pin Up Ingenue Penny Singleton Vintage 1938 Scotty Welbourne Fashion Photograph

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Pin Up Ingenue Penny Singleton Vintage 1938 Scotty Welbourne Fashion Photograph:
$56.00

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Photographer\'s ink stamp on verso.CONDITION: Fine+ condition with very little corner wear. A dazzling old Hollywood artifact! Please use the included images as a conditional guide.Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.********************Her father was Irish Philadelphian newspaperman, Benny McNulty. He was related to Jim Farley Roosevelt\'s campaign managers and later Postmaster General. As a child, she sang songs at a silent movie theater. After the sixth grade she joined a touring vaudeville act called \"The Kiddie Kabaret.\" Billed as Penny McNulty, she sang and danced with Milton Berle and Gene Raymond. Her first speaking part was in a Jack Benny Broadway show \"Great Temptations”.Moving to Hollywood, she took a new name after marrying dentist Lawrence Singleton. Her first name derived from having saved large amounts of penny coins. She played a tough nightclub dancer in After the Thin Man (1936) and acted/sang/danced in Swing Your Lady (1938), one of the movies Humphrey Bogart regarded as his worst. Though naturally a brunette, she bleached her hair blonde ever since she got the role of Blondie in that long-lived series.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan********************Scotty Welbourne was born on May 14, 1907 in North Carolina and by the end of his career he not only photographed great film stars but also became a wonderfully known cinematographer and director.mptv (dot) net says of Welbourne:Scotty Welbourne replaced Elmer Fryer as department head at Warner Bros. in 1941, photographing many of the studio\'s newer stars, including Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, and Alexis Smith, as well as Marlene Dietrich and Merle Oberon. (During the shooting of \"Fools for Scandal\" (1938), he took 686 pictures of Carole Lombard in one day.)Welbourne worked at Warners into the 1940s, taking photos of studio stars such as Jane Wyman and Bette Davis.However, movie buffs may best know Welbourne for his work in the 1950s horror genre -- he handled photography of the underwater sequences for director Jack Arnold\'s 1955 3-D gem \"Revenge Of The Creature.\" Recalled Rico Browning, who was in the gill man\'s suit when filming took place underwater, \"The cameraman, Scotty Welbourne, also did some directing under the water. He built the housings for the two 3-D cameras, which were placed beside each other, and they flooded twice, and had to be overhauled overnight to have them ready to go the next day.”Welbourne believed that the proper use of light and shadow was the answer to most of the photographer\'s problems and that \"the photograph or the photographer must never overshadow the subject in importance [but] must always be of secondary importance to the star.\" Welbourne left Warner Bros. in 1945 to set up, with Madison Lacy and former MGM publicity photographer Bud Graybill, the stills department at Enterprise Productions, a short-lived production company that made three or four films, among them \"Arch of Triumph\"(1948).He was often a uncredited still photographer for films such as \"Public Enemy,\" \"The Sound and the Fury,\" and \"The Creature From the Black Lagoon.” He passed away on May 25, 1979 shortly after his 72nd birthday in Los Angeles, California.— Biography c/o VintageMovieStarPhotos (dot) BlogSpot (dot) com******************** Paypal Buyers Are Invited To grapefruitmoongallery\'s Fresh sale Weekly Newsletter