ALLA NAZIMOVA (ca. 1930) Photo by Maurice Goldberg

[New York: ca. 1930]. Vintage original 9 x 7 1/2″ (23 x 19 cm.) borderless black-and-white print still photo, with stamp on verso of Broadway photographer Maurice Goldberg. A holograph pencil note on verso reads “10 March 1930”. This corresponds to a two-month Broadway run of Ivan Turgenev’s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, in which Nazimova starred as Natalia Petrovna.

After her years of stardom in Hollywood, Nazimova increasingly found little film work for herself and returned to the stage in productions of Eugene O’Neill, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, as well as new plays.