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• Author/Creator:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
  
• Title:Promotional photographs for The bridge of San Luis Rey.
  
• Published/Created:1929.
  
• Physical Description:13 photographic prints : b & w ; 32.9 x 25.4 cm. and smaller.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS FILE 54 (Broadside)
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
  Discrete numbers in the individual negatives of the film stills.
  Ink stamps on the versos of several prints, as well as blind stamps, identify the works by Louise.
  Purchased from Walter Reuben, Inc., on the Thornton Wilder Memorial Fund, 2013.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) is a film directed by Charles Brabin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based on a 1927 novel of the same name by Thornton Wilder. The film was released in silent and partial sound versions.
  
• Summary:Promotional photographs for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 1929. The collection includes film stills that depict actors Don Alvarado, Lily Damita, Emily Fitzroy, and Duncan Renaldo. Other images include actor Ernest Torrence in costume on a sound stage, as well as a view of a set model of the titular bridge and Convent of Santa María Rosa de la Rosas. The collection also includes a series of photographs created by Ruth Harriet Louise for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of Alvarado and Damita.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Cite as:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Promotional Photographs for The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Alvarado, Don--Pictorial works.
  Brabin, Charles J., 1883-1957.
  Damita, Lily--Pictorial works.
  Fitzroy, Emily, 1860-1954--Pictorial works.
  Louise, Ruth Harriet, 1903-1940.
  Renaldo, Duncan--Pictorial works.
  Torrence, Ernest, 1878-1933--Pictorial works.
  Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Bridge of San Luis Rey.
  Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975--Film adaptations.
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
  Feature films--Pictorial works.
  
• Genre/Form:Film stills.
  Gelatin silver prints.
  Photographic prints.
  
• Also listed under:Brabin, Charles J., 1883-1957.
  Louise, Ruth Harriet, 1903-1940.