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The Golden Age of Hollywood
Lot 183

A Seena Owen group of rare keybook photos

14 May 2019, 13:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$510 inc. premium

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A Seena Owen group of rare keybook photos

Approximately 201 silver gelatin photos, all linen-backed and bound with red laces, comprising 38 from The Woman God Changed (1921); 86 from Back Pay (1922); 34 from Sisters (1922); and 43 from The Go-Getter (1923). Seena Owen was a popular star in silent pictures who appeared in D.W. Griffith's masterpiece, Intolerance (1916). Having made films for William Randolph Hearst's company, Cosmopolitan Productions, she happened to be on his yacht in 1924 when the mysterious death of director Thomas Ince occurred. Despite Owen's popularity on the screen, she was one of the unfortunate silent film stars whose voice failed her upon the advent of talkies. Not one to throw in the towel, Owen became a screenwriter and penned Aloma of the South Seas (1941) starring Dorothy Lamour, among other films.
8 x 10 in.

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