Mar 20, 2025 - Sale 2697

Sale 2697 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Jet Magazine poster and photograph of singer Joyce Bryant. Jet Magazine point-of-purchase poster: "The Sexiest Gowns in Show Business. Joyce Bryant: Sultry singer finds low-cut gowns help her audience appeal." 13¼ x 10 inches, printed in green and black on light board; minor wear and toning. 1 October 1953.

Full-length photograph portrait of Bryant, 13½ x 9½ inches to sight, lightly retouched, not examined out of period bubble frame. Undated. No place, 1953 and undated

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The singer Joyce Bryant (1927-2022) was a popular sex symbol in the early 1950s, dubbed "The Black Marilyn Monroe."