ROBERT MITCHUM / THE LOCKET (1946)

[Hollywood: RKO Pictures, 1946]. Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, with studio text affixed, JUST ABOUT FINE.

Moody portrait of Robert Mitchum as Norman Clyde, a painter whose relationship with the film’s deranged heroine eventually leads to his suicide. Mitchum was then at the onset of his film career, and single portraits of him from this film are seldom seen. The text uses the working title WHAT NANCY WANTED.