JOAN CRAWFORD SHOWS HER LEGS | DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE (1931) Photo

[Los Angeles]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1931. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Photo has minor use. Typed credit information on verso comes through on Lester Vail’s face. About fine.

A riches-to-rags saga involving the Roaring Twenties, the 1929 Wall Street stock market crash and the subsequent Depression, which is reason for wealthy Joan Crawford to seek a job at a newspaper. All of the pre-Code story elements were here, some of the storyline was based upon the real-life incidents of the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in a garage in Chicago and the June 9, 1930 murder of Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle.

Photo is coded 531-58.