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Circa 1936 "The Marx Brothers (Harpo, Chico and Groucho)" Black and White Photograph Print by Ted Allan
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The Marx Brothers (Harpo, Chico and Groucho) circa 1936. Photo by Ted Allan.
11" x 14" silver gelatin print (unframed). …
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The Marx Brothers (Harpo, Chico and Groucho) circa 1936. Photo by Ted Allan.
11" x 14" silver gelatin print (unframed). Printed later from the original negative under the direct supervision and authenticated by Sid Avery, as authorized by the estate of the artist. Open edition.
MORE INFO ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER TED ALLAN (1910 - 2003):
Ted Allan is a native of Arizona who began his career in Los Angeles creating drawings, paintings and pastels from still photographs for Metropolitan Theatre lobbies. He then opened a portrait studio in Hollywood photographing actors. He shot portraits for several major studios and stills for Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. Later in his career, he opened the Ted Allan Film Studios and shot documentaries and low-budget feature films.
LOS ANGELES TIMES OBITUARY
Ted Allan, 83; Popular Studio Photographer
December 23, 1993 | MYRNA OLIVER | TIMES STAFF WRITER
Ted Allan, the popular Hollywood photographer known as "Rembrandt" at MGM and dubbed "Farley Focus" by Frank Sinatra, has died at the age of 83. Allan, who lived in the Hollywood Hills home he built in 1929, died Monday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank after a long illness. The veteran photographer was under personal contract to Sinatra for nine years in the 1960s and 1970s, taking pictures of the singer at recording sessions, during film productions and on world tours.
Born Theos Alwyn Dunagan in Clifton, Ariz., Allan changed his name during a brief fling at acting. As a teen-ager, he enhanced stars' photographs with oil paint for display in theater lobbies. The experience stuck with him, and years later stars praised his ability to retouch their images. Allan quickly moved behind the still camera when he established his own portrait studio in Hollywood in 1933. He later worked for MGM studios, CBS Radio (taking publicity photos for Cecil B. DeMille's "Lux Radio Theatre"), ABC television and several film productions, including "The Sand Pebbles" and "Von Ryan's Express."
Over the years he photographed such stars as Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Shirley Temple, Helen Hayes, and John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore. Allan, according to a catalogue entry during a 1987 show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "adhered to the portrait photographer's mandate, to make mere men and women into objects of fantasy . . . with poses and dramatic lighting . . . and retouching."
His work has also been exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and in London and Venice, Italy.
"Carole Lombard was a favorite of mine," Allan told The Times in 1987. "She was real down to earth. She was the first movie star I ever heard use a four-letter word." Another favorite was Eleanor Powell. "She liked my pictures so much that she proposed marriage," he told The Times. "I said, 'That's all well and good, but I don't think my wife would understand.' "
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- Dimensions
- 14ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 11ʺH
- Styles
- American
- Portraiture
- Art Subjects
- Figure
- Pop Culture
- Portrait
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1990s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Black & White Photography
- Condition
- Mint Condition, No Imperfections
- Color
- Gray
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