Vintage original 8x10 in. US single-weight glossy photograph from the silent film drama, BUTTONS, released in 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and directed by George W. Hill. Child star Jackie Coogan is a young street orphan, Buttons, who gets a job as a pageboy on an ocean liner. He and
his friend, Slugger (Paul Hurst), get on the wrong side of the ship's captain (Lars Hanson), however, when
they try to tell him his wife, who is aboard the ship, is cheating on him. The
captain throws them both in the brig and their troubles get even more
complicated when the ship is wrecked at sea and is in danger of sinking.
The image features an interior shot inside the gymnasium on board an ocean liner as an exhausted Slugger (Paul Hurst) tries to keep passenger Henri Rizard (Roy D'Arcy), who is shirtless, in the saddle of a vintage motorized exercise machine while one of the ship's pageboys, Buttons (Jackie Coogan), watches the tortured man. Printed on single-weight stock with a glossy finish, this vintage original photograph is in very fine condition with two light 0.75 in. diagonal creases near and above the right end of the exercise machine; signs of wear on the tip of the corners; and a small area of paper loss on the left border above the center.
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