LOUISE BROOKS AT THE START OF HER PARAMOUNT CONTRACT [1925] Photo by M. I. Boris

New York: Paramount Pictures, [1925]. Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white photo. Trimmed for publication; archival paper has been added to blank margins. With a Paramount New York stamp on verso indicating that Brooks is a “former Follies beauty”. Very good-.

Clearly, a very early Brooks portrait, before she moved to Hollywood. It contains in the plate at bottom left the signature of portrait photographer M. I. Boris.