Photograph of Princess Natalie Paley
Photography
Inventory number
2025.5.6.4.PH.CI.C1935.USAuthor:
Ernest A Bachrach (American 1899-1973)Description
Photograph of Princess Natalie PALEY related to her role in RKO Radio Pictures' Sylvia Scarlett (1935). PALEY is wearing a headband with her head turned towards the camera, gazing over the back of a patterned silk sofa.Natalie Paley (1905-1981) - Russian princess and granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II who became a Paris fashion model for Schiaparelli and Chanel in the 1930s, later appearing in French and American films.
Directed by George CUKOR, Sylvia Scarlett (1935) is a romantic comedy starring Katharine HEPBURN as a woman who disguises herself as a boy, with Cary GRANT and Edmund GWENN in supporting roles, blending farce and drama in what became one of the era's most notorious box-office failures, despite later cult status.