Merle Oberon for A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures
Robert Coburn, American, 1900 - 1990
1945
Black and white vintage print
Image: 9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in. (23.8 × 19 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.3 × 20.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The John Kobal Foundation Collection; Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2019.57.2879
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Verso: Upper right corner, in graphite, "Merl Oberon" and "A Song to Remember 1944" and stamped in red ink, "Columbia Pictures Photo By Coburn" / Center, typed on affixed white paper, "D-1011-149 - THEIR BELOVED - FOR the love of Mme. Sand (Merle Oberon) Europe's greatest composers write undying melodies, in Columbia's Technicolor "The Song That Lived Forever," Paul Muni-Oberon starrer with Cornel Wilde as Frederic Chopin."
Provenance
John Kobal Foundation Limited, London, England; sold to present collection, 2019.
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