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Vanity Fair,1929

Maurice Chevalier

Thirty years before he thanked heaven for little girls, Maurice Chevalier went to Hollywood in that massive influx of all-singing, all-dancing talent after the advent of talkies .Thirty million Frenchwomen were not wrong: American females also succumbed to the Gallic jut of his lower lip, the tilt of his boater. This limelit photograph of him and his shadows was shot for Vanity Fair in New York in 1929 by Edward Steichen. A print made from the original negative will be auctioned at Christie's East on November 11 (estimate: $1,200 to $1,800). Ah, yes, we remember it well.