LAURA LA PLANTE (ca. 1927) Portrait by Walter Fredrick Seely

Los Angeles: Walter Fredrick Seely, [ca. 1927]. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Just about fine.

Christie Bathing Beauty Laura La Plante got her film acting training on camera in a series of silent shorts in the early-1920s. She graduated to leading lady and even made the transition to sound with the first filmed version of SHOW BOAT in 1929. After a few years of work in England she tired of movie making and after 1935 appeared in only a few films and TV shows.

Photographer Walter Fredrick Seely’s credit is written in pencil on the verso.