CLARENCE MUSE | JUNGLE QUEEN (1945) Portrait
$200.00
Clarence Muse. Jungle Queen. [Hollywood]: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white print still photo, fine.
The great African American actor Clarence Muse, here in a rare portrait for a Universal serial which got released in 1945.
“Muse [was]… so unlike other black actors of his era. His performances crack the glossy artificiality of his films, injecting them with a healthy dose of unassimilated realism.” (Bogle, Blacks in American Film and Television, pp. 431-2.)
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