Ginger Rogers - "Broadway Ingenue" by HERBERT MITCHELL (1930) Size:24x30 and also to promote Lucky

and also to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes in the same year

Crisp textures

Natural color portrait of Ilona Massey as restored from the vintage original 1940 tri-color (carbro) camera separation negatives

the actress died in Beverly Hills at the age of 81 in June of 2011

Ginger Rogers - "Broadway Ingenue" by HERBERT MITCHELL (1930) Size:24x30 and also to promote LuckyThis exquisite early portrait of Ginger Rogers, captured in 1930 by celebrated photographer Herbert Mitchell, offers a rare glimpse of the actress at the dawn of her Broadway career. Framed in a medium close up, Rogers natural brunette hair is styled in the soft, sculpted marcel waves characteristic of the period, lending her a refined, timeless elegance. She wears a delicate dress, its sheer sleeves and glittering embroidered front catching the light