Frank Borzage Director, for Columbia Pictures
Adolph Lorenz "Whitey" Schafer
1940
Black and white vintage print
Image: 9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in. (23.7 × 18.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 13/16 in. (35 × 27.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The John Kobal Foundation Collection; Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2019.57.4053
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Verso: Upper left, stamped in red ink, "Photo by Schafer Columbia Studio" / Upper center, stamped in red ink, "Exclusive" and, in graphite, "Photoplay" / Upper right, stamped in blue ink, "Property of Photoplay Magazine Return to Library May 5 1934" / Center, typed in black ink on tan paper, affixed, "Frank Borzage, director of Columbia's 'Men of Tomorrow' (formerly 'No Greater Glory'), sees the picture in reverie. This is the great Ferenc Molnar's story entitled 'Paul Street Boys', perhaps the most dramatic tale of youthful sacrifice for an ideal that has ever been told. Borzage selected for the lead in the picture, a lad who had never been before a camera, George Breakston. He wanted the natural reaction of a sensitive, childish youth, rather than that of a trained actor, and the results, he declares, are eyond his fondest dreams."
Provenance
John Kobal Foundation Limited, London, England; sold to present collection, 2019.
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