MYLES CONNOLLY 1930s Ernest A. Bachrach 10x8 PORTRAIT

Original 10 inch x 8 inch Black and White Portrait of RKO Associate Film Producer and Screenwriter MYLES CONNOLLY.

Connolly worked on screenplays for MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON; TARZAN’S NEW YORK ADVENTURE; TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY; HARVEY and many others
Myles Connolly was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts (a neighborhood-suburb of Boston, Massachusetts). After receiving his education at Boston Latin School, he graduated from Boston College in 1918. Connolly had a fan in fellow Bostonian Joseph P. Kennedy (father of President John F. Kennedy). Kennedy convinced Connolly to leave Boston to work at the Hollywood movie studio that Kennedy financed, Film Booking Office (FBO). He began his work at FBO as a film producer in the 1929 Frank Craven and Richard Rosson comedy The Very Idea. FBO was purchased by RCA to become RKO studios in 1930. At RKO, Connolly served as associate producer for that studio's earliest Wheeler & Woolsey vehicles. In 1933, his work as a screenwriter-producer of dramatic films was introduced with The Right to Romance.
Connolly eventually befriended director Frank Capra at a cast and crew party for Ladies of Leisure (1930) after actor Alan Roscoe invited Connolly to tag along with him to the event. Capra followed Roscoe's lead in describing the writer/producer from Boston as "a hulking, 230-pound, six-three, black-haired, blue-eyed gum-chewing Irishman with the mien of a dyspeptic water buffalo."

The portrait is by Ernest A. Bachrach (1899 - 1973).
One of the most influential Hollywood portrait photographers, Bachrach headed the photographic department at RKO from its inception in 1929 and stayed until Desilu purchased the studio in 1958.

The portrait is in very good condition with slight age browning. The snipe on the reverse faintly shows through.