STEPIN FETCHIT | DIMPLES [under working title: THE BOWERY PRINCESS] (1936) Portrait

Stepin Fetchit. Dimples [working title: The Bowery Princess]. Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white print still photo, USA. Traces of paper in bottom left corner, very good+.

Portrait of Stepin Fetchit in this Shirley Temple film for Fox, under its working title The Bowery Princess. Fetchit was noted for playing stereotyped lazy, shuffling good-for-nothings. Bogle, p.388: “The fact that he was also immensely talented has been forgotten.”