[Ben Bernie]
Photograph
Eugene Robert Richee
American, 1896–1972
[Ben Bernie]
1935
gelatin silver print
Overall: 33 × 25.7 cm (13 × 10 1/8 in.)
GEH Film Collection
1988.1592.0001
Inscriptions Handwritten in pencil, TRC of verso: P-1734-82.
Stamped in violet ink, TC of verso: CREDIT WILL BE APPRECIATED \ PARAMOUNT PHOTO \ BY \ EUGENE ROBERT RICHEE.
Stamped in black ink, RC of verso: MAY 13 1935.
Typewritten on paper caption, BC of verso: THE OLD MAESTRO, IN PERSON? YOWSAH! -- So help me - this is none other than Ben Bernie [circled in pencil], the King of Yowsah, in a few last-minute poses for the Paramount studio cameraman just before he returned to New York after being featured [...] in a new film, "Stolen Harmony".
Stamped in violet ink, TC of verso: CREDIT WILL BE APPRECIATED \ PARAMOUNT PHOTO \ BY \ EUGENE ROBERT RICHEE.
Stamped in black ink, RC of verso: MAY 13 1935.
Typewritten on paper caption, BC of verso: THE OLD MAESTRO, IN PERSON? YOWSAH! -- So help me - this is none other than Ben Bernie [circled in pencil], the King of Yowsah, in a few last-minute poses for the Paramount studio cameraman just before he returned to New York after being featured [...] in a new film, "Stolen Harmony".
