Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler: Original Pre-Code Gold Diggers of 1933 8x10 Still Photo

Original vintage 8" x 10" Warner Bros. / Vitaphone still photograph from Gold Diggers of 1933, the 1933 pre-Code musical, featuring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.

The photograph shows Keeler seated in costume on a stage set, with Powell standing beside her in a white formal suit. The lower margin carries the original printed caption: “Gold Diggers of 1933” — A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Production. The reverse is identified in writing as Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.

Gold Diggers of 1933 was directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with musical numbers staged by Busby Berkeley. The film starred Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks, and Ginger Rogers, and is one of Warner Bros.’ Depression-era pre-Code musicals.

Provenance
These pre-Code movie stills descend from the estate of the consignor’s great-uncle, who worked at Duluth, Minnesota’s Lyceum Theatre during the 1930s. According to family history, he rescued the stills from the theater at the time and preserved them for decades. Opened as a vaudeville and motion picture venue, the Lyceum began showing films around 1921 and featured two theater organs as well as a 16-piece orchestra conducted by Louis Christie. The theater remained a Duluth landmark until its closure on January 11, 1966, and subsequent demolition.

Condition:
Original vintage photograph with age toning, surface wear, handling marks, light creasing, edge and corner wear, and general wear from age and storage. There are punched binder or file holes along the left edge with associated edge tearing and loss. Reverse has handwritten identification. Please review photographs carefully for condition.