ESTHER RALSTON vintage risque leggy 1934 pre-code RUSSELL BALL photo SADIE McKEE

ESTHER RALSTON vintage risque leggy 1934 pre-code RUSSELL BALL photo SADIE McKEE
ESTHER RALSTON vintage risque leggy 1934 pre-code RUSSELL BALL photo SADIE McKEE

ESTHER RALSTON vintage risque leggy 1934 pre-code RUSSELL BALL photo SADIE McKEE
A vintage risque 8×10 photo of Esther Ralston by Russell Ball the famed MGM photographer. This superb double weight pinup photo shows the semi-nude Ralston in “Sadie McKee” and is perhaps the finest pinup we’ve seen of the “American Venus”. A remarkable pre-code photo of one of the greatest Hollywood stars of the golden age. The Hollywood pinup which began with Mack Sennett’s famous “Bathing Beauties” reached its zenith in WWII. Evelyn Keyes, one of the most popular of the WWII era pinup girls, wrote in “Scarlett O’Hara’s Younger Sister”: It was our patriotic duty to answer the gallant servicemen… With pinup pictures, the nakedest the Hays Office would allow… We females spent hours posing in bathing suits, negligees and shorts, jumping out of candy boxes for Valentine’s Day. The pinup would endure through the Korean War and into the 1950s, when the more aggressive Men’s magazines made them seem quaint and old fashioned. Today these photos, also known as “Cheesecake” are valuable collectors items symbolizing a time of more innocent glamour and beauty. The item “ESTHER RALSTON vintage risque leggy 1934 pre-code RUSSELL BALL photo SADIE McKEE” is in sale since Thursday, March 7, 2019. This item is in the category “Entertainment Memorabilia\Movie Memorabilia\Photographs\Pre-1940\Black & White”. The seller is “malibran” and is located in Culver City, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
ESTHER RALSTON vintage risque leggy 1934 pre-code RUSSELL BALL photo SADIE McKEE