Another Photo Saved from Oblivion

 I found this in a bulk lot of photographs, one step from being tossed into the trash.  I shudder to think of that, losing an image of Bob with such a big smile.  There wasn't much smiling in the movie, Inspiration (1932), nor on the set.  Garbo gave Bob the cold shoulder, or should I more correctly say icy shoulder.  Not a happy experience for the young actor.  

I'm sure the working relationship with Beryl Mercer, the diminutive lady playing Garbo's maid pictured above, was much better.  Ms. Mercer was in five movies with Bob, starting off with his very first movie, Three Live Ghosts (1929).  And after Inspiration, she was in The Man in Possession (1931), Lovers Courageous (1932), and Night Must Fall (1937).  Bob did NOT make another movie with Ms. Garbo.