Production still from L'Epervier (1933)
Photography
Inventory number
2025.5.6.8.PH.CI.C1933.USDescription
Photograph from a scene of Marcel L'HERBIER's film L'Epervier (1933) featuring Charles BOYER and Natalie PALEY. Charles BOYER sports a formal tuxedo and gazes towards Natalie PALEY. Natalie PALEY wears an off the shoulder dress with puff sleaves, polka dotted with small floral appliqués, embellished with undulating straps of sequins and shoulder cutouts. She has diamond bracelets on either wrist and gazes off frame.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.