Photograph of Princess Natalie Paley
Photography
Inventory number
2025.5.6.2.PH.CI.C1935.USAuthor:
Ernest A Bachrach (American 1899-1973)Description
Studio portrait of Princess Natalie PALEY related to her role in RKO Radio Pictures' Sylvia Scarlett (1935). She is wearing a white knit sweater, and looks over her shoulder.Natalie Paley (1905-1981) was a Russian princess, the granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II. She fled the Russian Revolution and went on to establish herself as a model in Paris throughout the 1930s, for Schiaparelli, Chanel, and Vogue. She later appear in French and American films.
Sylvia Scarlett (1935), directed by George CUKOR, stars Katharine HEPBURN, Cary GRANT, and Edmund GWENN in a story about a woman disguising herself as a boy.
Material
PhotographOrigin
circa 1935 New York, United StatesDimensions
Length : 20 cmHeight : 26 cm