This is a great find by Luther - from the "Picture Play Magazine", 1930:
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A nice variety of spankings from this era, indeed!
Here is some information on the movies and/or people shown in the picture above:
No Defense (1929) - the movie is presumed lost.
The Water Hole (1928) - one of the early (partially) color feature films. You´ll find the movie poster online easily, but no hint about the movie´s survival at a first glance.
Sugar Geise´s film career hadn´t even really begun at that time; the IMDB lists her first movie for 1933. This probably also explains the misspelled last name.
So this is probably not a movie spanking; it´s probably not even Sugar Geise, but Maxine Cantway as the spankee
is labelled in another magazine.
Alice Day and Jack Mulhall featured in See You in Jail (1927) and In the Next Room (1930). However, due to the release date and since the latter is listed as "mystery" my money is on "See You in Jail", a comedy.
Update: Another source suggests it is for In the Next Room.
An actress called Constance Meredith isn´t even listed in the IMDB.
But I was able to dig out some information that suggests that she was a stage performer with (at least) one appearance in a Broadway production.
Since Sidney Blackmer also started his career on stage - and on Broadway - there is a good chance that this was actually taken while rehearsing for a stage production.
A nice variety of spankings from this era, indeed!
Here is some information on the movies and/or people shown in the picture above:
No Defense (1929) - the movie is presumed lost.
The Water Hole (1928) - one of the early (partially) color feature films. You´ll find the movie poster online easily, but no hint about the movie´s survival at a first glance.
Sugar Geise´s film career hadn´t even really begun at that time; the IMDB lists her first movie for 1933. This probably also explains the misspelled last name.
So this is probably not a movie spanking; it´s probably not even Sugar Geise, but Maxine Cantway as the spankee
is labelled in another magazine.
Alice Day and Jack Mulhall featured in See You in Jail (1927) and In the Next Room (1930). However, due to the release date and since the latter is listed as "mystery" my money is on "See You in Jail", a comedy.
Update: Another source suggests it is for In the Next Room.
An actress called Constance Meredith isn´t even listed in the IMDB.
But I was able to dig out some information that suggests that she was a stage performer with (at least) one appearance in a Broadway production.
Since Sidney Blackmer also started his career on stage - and on Broadway - there is a good chance that this was actually taken while rehearsing for a stage production.