Tom Bloom writes, sharing a scarce foreign entry in the Al Hirschfeld canon. He describes Danmarks Films-Serie as a movie industry book, published circa 1948. The heart of the book is twenty-five pages containing approximately one-hundred fifty color-tinted photo portraits (1.75 x 2.5") of movie stars of the day. The actors are named and their studio affiliations provided. There is a half page introduction in Danish as well as an index. The front cover features Hirschefeld's caricature of Clark Gable and the back cover has Robert Taylor and Van Johnson, all leading men with MGM. Three more Hirschfeld drawings are inside: Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon on the front paste-down and Esther Williams on the introductory page.
Note: My thanks to Tom Bloom for treating us to his nineteenth contribution here.
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I always regret missing out on this one! I believe it also contains one of Esther Williams. It appears to be a ready-made collection fo several facial and profile artworks by Al Hirschfeld of MGM contract players. I’ve found many such ones in the Newspapers.com provisions.
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