Subject:  Joyzelle Joyner

Size:  8x10

Description:  Supremely rare doubleweight late twenties portrait, inscribed and signed (Joyzelle, as she was often billed) by the beautiful dancer-actress.  Photograph by the Paralta studio of Hollywood.  Joyner (1905-1980) has come to be viewed as a symbol of pre-Code salaciousness thanks to her famously provocative dancing in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932).  Other films include The Black Watch (1929), the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930), and Dante's Inferno (1935).  This is the only signed photo of hers we have encountered.  (Vintage original photograph; true vintage autograph)

Condition:  Fine Minus with a few edge and corner tack holes and slightly curled edges; the inscribee's name has been erased, and some of the writing is slightly faded including the last part of her name