Albert by Fryer

In 1941, Eddie Albert appeared in OUT OF THE FOG, which was based on Irwin Shaw’s THE GENTLE PEOPLE. Photo by Elmer Fryer

Warren William Day

Warren William (Warren William Krech, 1894-1948), known posthumously as “The King of Pre-Code” films. He married Helen Barbara Nelson in 1923.

Preston Foster (1900-1970) by Elmer Fryer

I bought this photo on a whim — a sixth sense of a kind. It is lovely in person, and bears the photographer’s embossed stamp as well as the subject’s autograph.

Photos by Elmer Fryer (1898-1944)

George Arliss (Augustus George Andrews, 1868-1946) filming THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD (1932).

Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson, 1886-1950) in GO INTO YOUR DANCE (1935).

Patric Knowles (Reginald Lawrence Knowles, 1911-1995)

Marie Prevost (Mary Bickford Dunn, 1896-1937) and Seena Owen (Signe Auen, 1894-1966) filming THE RUSH HOUR (1928). Seena Owen was married to Raoul Walsh’s brother, the matinee idol George Walsh, 1916-24.

Jane Wyatt (1910-2006)

Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon at home.