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Girl's Demand Excitement homage Helldorado Days Tombstone Arizona 1931-1980 Art Print
by David Lee Guss
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Girl's Demand Excitement homage Helldorado Days Tombstone Arizona 1931-1980 art print by David Lee Guss. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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When Duke appeared in The Big Trail, he had only been billed once, as Duke Morrison, in 18 films. In Trail he got star billing with a new name,... more
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When Duke appeared in "The Big Trail," he had only been billed once, as Duke Morrison, in 18 films. In "Trail" he got star billing with a new name, John Wayne. "Girls Demand Excitement" (1931) is his first movie after the failure of the film that was supposed to have made him a star.
Virginia Cherrill (1908-1996), who had played the blind girl in Charlie Chaplln's (1889-1977) great film, "City Lights" (1931), was given billing over Duke.
It was her first talkie. Her only other claim to fame is that she was Cary Grant's (1904-1986) first wife; one of her five husbands. Coincidentally Grant was also married five times, finally succeeding in his last to another non actress.
Duke has been quoted as saying that "Girl's Demand Excitement" was his worst motion picture. Cherrill, a society girl with no acting experience, had been picked by Chaplin when he saw her at a boxing match.
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About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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