GEORGE BRENT 10x8 George Hurrell PORTRAIT

Original 10 inch x 8 inch Black and White Portrait of GEORGE BRENT.

George Brent (1904 – 1979) was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included Jezebel and Dark Victory.

The portrait is by George Hurrell (1904 - 1992) with his stamp on the reverse. Hurrell moved to Long Beach, California in 1925 and began his photographic career. He gained success after the actress Norma Shearer showed Hurrell’s photographs to her husband, Irving Thalberg, who fortunately for Hurrell was the head of production at MGM Studios. During the golden decades of glamour that were the 1930 and 1940s, Hurrell had the opportunity to photograph every star that worked with MGM: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth, and Humphrey Bogart, among many others. His black and white portraits, composed with sophistication, portray an unforgettable and iconic elegance. Unlike other “studio” photographers he printed his own work and had the highest standards for the quality of his images.

The portrait is in very good condition with slight bleed through of his name printed on the reverse in red.