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Jean Ruth Patty Thomas Dorothy Abbott Bathing Beauties Photograph Original 1947

$ 2.61

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Object Type: Photograph
  • Condition: This photograph is in fine condition with light corner wear and mild storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Size: 8" x 10"
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Subjects: Jean Ruth, Patty Thomas, Dorothy Abbott
  • Industry: Movies
  • Modified Item: No
  • Year: 1940-49
  • Style: Black & White
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Film: Variety Girl (1947)

    Description

    ITEM: This is a vintage and original Paramount Pictures production still photograph of Hollywood starlets Jean Ruth, Patty Thomas, and Dorothy Abbott as a trio of vivacious bathing beauties splashing and playing in the shallow ocean surf during a pin-up photo shoot with Paramount photographer Don English. Publicity for the 1947 musical comedy film "Variety Girl." The press snipe on verso reads:
    BEACH BEAUTIES: Three girls who will help decorate any beach are film starlets; Jean Ruth, Patty Thomas, and Dorothy Abbott of the cast of Paramount's 40-star musical "Variety Girl."
    Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock. Typed studio text and photographer's ink stamp on verso.
    Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
    More about Jean Ruth:
    Jean Ruth was born on September 10, 1917 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is known for her work on Youth for the Kingdom (1945), At War with the Army (1950) and Union Station (1950). She was married to John Hay and Freddie Slack. She died on September 18, 2004 in Fortuna, California, USA.
    More about Patty Thomas:
    Patty Thomas was born on August 1, 1922 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Ladies Man (1961), Smooth Sailing (1947) and Los no invitados (2003). She died on March 29, 2014 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
    More about Dorothy Abbott:
    Perennial starlet Dorothy Abbott was a sexy, vivacious, wide-smiling model, showgirl and actress who could brighten up a room. Unfortunately, her cinematic offerings wound up being pretty minimal and her last years were marred by depression and, ultimately, a tragic end.
    She was born Dorothy E. Abbott on December 16, 1920, in Kansas City, Missouri and started her career off as a chorine with Earl Carroll and his Los Angeles-based revues and in Las Vegas showrooms where she was dubbed the rather mystifying title of "The Girl with the Golden Arm". Paramount Studios perked up on the lovely blonde with the Betty Page-like bangs and gave her a starting contract at 0 a week. Groomed in dozens of decorative "good time girl" bits -- dancers, chorus girls, waitresses, stewardesses, party girls, nurses and models -- she was at the same time promoted as a cheesecake pinup, "winning" such dubious titles as "Miss Wilshire Club," "Miss Los Angeles Transit" and "Miss Oil Cans".
    The dusky-voiced Dorothy was usually briefly seen and not heard in such dramatic and lightweight fare as The Razor's Edge (1946), Road to Rio (1947), Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) (in which she has her first speaking role as a maid), Words and Music (1948), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Little Women (1949), Neptune's Daughter (1949), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), His Kind of Woman (1951), Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952), _The Las Vegas Story (1952)_, The Caddy (1953), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Jailhouse Rock (1957), South Pacific (1958), The Apartment (1960), That Touch of Mink (1962), A Gathering of Eagles (1963) and Dear Heart (1964). Her one starring role came early in the exploitative, lowbudget potboiler A Virgin in Hollywood (1953) as a star reporter out to get a seamy Hollywood story, but she was unable to capitalize on it.
    Working bit parts at the studio during the days, she would often perform on stage in little theatre shows at night. On the sly, when work was meager, she became a real estate agent in the 1950s in order to help supplement her income. TV chores included guest roles in "Leave It to Beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriet". She also had a recurring part for one season as Jack Webb's girlfriend on the Dragnet (1954) series.
    Dorothy married LAPD narcotics squad officer-turned homicide detective Adolph Rudy Diaz in 1949. Diaz, who was of Native American (Apache) descent, eventually retired as a cop in order to pursue acting. By this time, the marriage was in trouble and the couple separated. Going by the stage name of Rudy Diaz in 1967, he began to get work and was seen out in public with other women. The divorce was finalized in 1968, but Dorothy took it hard and never seemed to get over it. On December 15, 1968, she committed suicide at her Los Angeles home -- one day before her 48th birthday. She was interred (as Dorothy E. Diaz) at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, Plot: Valley Lawn, Lot 2939.
    - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh