MIDNIGHT (1939) Elaine Barrie original MGM glamour photograph

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MIDNIGHT (1939) Elaine Barrie original MGM glamour photograph
MIDNIGHT (1939) Elaine Barrie; an original MGM glamour photograph.  Photograph measures 8 3/4" x 12 1/4".  Photographer's stamp (William Walling) is stamped on the back.
ABOUT ELAINE BARRIE
:  Elaine Jacobs was a 16-year-old high school student in New York in 1931 when she went to see the John Barrymore film Svengali (1931). She fell in love with Barrymore and vowed that one day she would marry him and she sent him an adoring fan letter asking for an interview, and Barrymore wrote back and granted her one. After that first interview she returned to see him every day for more "interviews", and when Barrymore was finally discharged from the hospital he moved into the Jacobs' family apartment in New York City. Barrymore took Elaine and her mother out to nightclubs, parties and theaters all over the city, with reporters and photographers in hot pursuit. The coverage of the pair was so extensive that in 1935 the Associated Press named Elaine (along with presidential candidate Alf Landon) as one of the people who made that year most interesting.
Barrie and Barrymore were finally married in 1936, and it turned out to be a stormy one. She appeared in MIDNIGHT at MGM,  and made two shorts (one of which, How to Undress in Front of Your Husband (1937), was made by low-rent exploitation legend Dwain Esper) capitalizing on her status as Barrymore's wife. She also co-starred with him on Broadway and in several radio dramas. However, Barrymore's heavy drinking and serial infidelity resulted in several trial separations, and they finally divorced in 1940.
CONDITION: EXCELLENT condition; there is a 3/4" chip on the upper left black corner.
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