HAZEL BROOKS EXOTIC LOOK | ZIEGFELD FOLLIES [1944] Photo by Clarence Bull

Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1944]. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Clarence Bull photography stamp on verso, fine.

Follies girl Hazel Brooks, who would become a film noir femme fatale and marry MGM scenic designer Cedric Gibbons, was prominent in several of the extravagant musical numbers directed by Vincente Minnelli for the Arthur Freed-produced Ziegfeld Follies. Mostly filmed in 1944 but not released until 1946, by which time Brooks had been cast in such noir thrillers as Body and Soul.