Of Human Bondage (Two original photographs from the 1934 film)

  • London: National Film Archive, 1934
By W. Somerset Maugham (novel); Lester Cohen (screenwriter); John Cromwell (director); Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee (starring)
London: National Film Archive, 1934. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1934 film, one showing actors Bette Davis and Leslie Howard, the other showing director John Cromwell and a camera crew capturing a scene with Kay Johnson and Howard. Both with the stamp of National Film Archive on the verso.

From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.

Based on the 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. A sensitive, clubfooted young man falls in love with a mercurial tearoom waitress. A breakout role for actress Bette Davis, and the first of three adaptations of Maugham's novel, followed by one in 1946 and one in 1964.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

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