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A Marion Davies signed photo to Louella Parsons by Hurrell
10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$573.75 inc. premium
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A Marion Davies signed photo to Louella Parsons by Hurrell
Silver gelatin oversized doubleweight matte photograph of Marion Davies with "Hurrell" blind stamp to lower right border, signed and inscribed, "To the greatest friend / I have ever had. I love / you Louella. / from / Marion." Accompanied by three 8 x 10 in. publicity and scene stills of Davies. When Parsons first met Davies in 1919, Davies was in the thick of her affair with newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst. Parsons was surprised to find a modest, sweet woman: "She is like a child who had suddenly found herself in a golden palace surrounded with every luxury money can buy." Parsons was so adoring of Davies in her column that she eventually was hired by Hearst. Her columns were syndicated in hundreds of newspapers with over 20 million readers, with nary a negative word ever written about Marion Davies.
Provenance: originally from the estate of Louella Parsons.
11 x 14 in.
Provenance: originally from the estate of Louella Parsons.
11 x 14 in.


















