MGM stills department housed as many as 12 photographers housed in 3 buildings and under the supervision of Clarence Bull created still scenes and general publicity, there were places for developing, retouching, printing and a reception area. There were two portrait studios. one for Louise and one for Bull. Louise had a large degree of autonomy had her own studio and editing builing, most photograpgers would work on specific productions but Louise worked on the full range of images intended for publicity, as a result she reported not to Bull but to Howard Strickling the head of publicity. Louise employed her own assistant and a retoucher and in his words, 'she was a much better photographer than Bull'. There was certainly tension between he two. Bull maintained his own portrait studio, Bull's portraits were mainly costume studies or general publicity, he took some stills of the male stars. If Bull and Louise worked on the same production he would work with the subject on the set and Louise would take the portraits in her studio.
Mae Murray, once the queen of MGM
A softer portrait of Mae
I'm unsure if this is Mae or Marion, when I first looked at it I thought Marion, now I'm not sure? Anyone else hazard a guess.
A lovely Eleanor Boardman
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