A New (for me) Favorite Photo

                                Robert Montgomery (1930)

Quick ... Where's Bob's Left Hand?

Bob with 19-year-old Vanessa Brown, his co-star in the October 20, 1947 Lux Theater radio adaptation of 13 Rue Madeleine.

Well, it is Bob ... and He's in Color!

Bob in Color with Clouds

This is a clipping from a 1949 British magazine, photo taken probably in November, 1948.                       

And a photo used on the cover of a  Chicago Tribune supplement, dated November 28, 1948, from the same photo shoot as the one above with a significant color shift.  Guessing the true color is somewhere in between.  Dig the clouds used as a backdrop in the photos.

And, lastly, a third photo from the shoot.  Not in color (well, except for the blue tint), but too nice a photo not to include it.  

Bob in Color Week

There are, unfortunately, not many color photos of Bob.  At least very few that I have seen.  I know he was taking color home movies in the 1930s, so I'm sure there were many color shots of him taken at home.  But, then, they are either lost or squirreled away in someone's collection ... frustratingly not available.  There are a few good photos available, such as the following 1954 Lucky Strike ad.