Sorry for the big watermark (someone else's), but I found this shot on eBay and it was too good to not pass along!  According to the numbering (lower right corner), this was taken on the set of "Paid." I have no idea who the man is, but I'm imagining Joan thinking: "Doug? Security?? Anyone???"   ;p

MAY 24, 2007, NOTE:  Apologies for my above flippant guesswork as to the man in the picture. And thanks to Gustavo Rieder from Chile for passing along the real information. The man was Jorge Delano, also known as "Coke," a Chilean artist, writer, director, and journalist who worked in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. (Delano was also a 4th cousin of the US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.) On November 17, 1930, Delano had an exhibition of his cartoons at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel. Delano mentions in his biography that many stars, such as Buster Keaton, wanted to buy his work, but he refused, wanting to take his work back to Chile... Except in the case of Joan: "How could I receive money from a woman with eyes like her?"

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