Vintage double-weight Studio Harcourt, Paris portrait photograph of the Dominican-born actress, the "Queen of Technicolor," looking over her shoulder with her hair swept up and a jeweled earring, Harcourt Paris imprint at lower right. Unsigned. Light crease to upper left corner, else fine. 7 x 9.5 inches; 18 x 24 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Montez married the French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1943 and settled with him in Paris after the war. Their marriage ended tragically when she drowned in the bathtub after suffering an apparent heart attack in 1951.
“In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologies (1957).
Vintage double-weight Studio Harcourt, Paris portrait photograph of the Dominican-born actress, the "Queen of Technicolor," looking over her shoulder with her hair swept up and a jeweled earring, Harcourt Paris imprint at lower right. Unsigned. Light crease to upper left corner, else fine. 7 x 9.5 inches; 18 x 24 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Montez married the French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1943 and settled with him in Paris after the war. Their marriage ended tragically when she drowned in the bathtub after suffering an apparent heart attack in 1951.
“In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologies (1957).