Friday, October 31, 2025

“When the black cat crosses your path and still you smile, you’re the lucky one.”

Actress and model Lillian Wells kneels amidst a rustic bed of straw in this playful Halloween-themed portrait from the late 1940s. Framed by towering corn stalks, she wears a red-and-white chequered blouse, fastened primly at the collar, and high-waisted black shorts that accentuate her poised silhouette. Upon the painted fence behind her, the shadowed arc of a cat curves with spectral elegance, its silhouette imparting a note of seasonal whimsy, whilst a carved pumpkin grins slyly from the corner of the frame. The controlled interplay of light and composition conjures an atmosphere at once beguiling and faintly suspenseful—transfiguring the studio tableau into a vision of small-town October enchantment.
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Actress and model Lillian Wells in a Halloween mood, sometime in the 1940s.

Copyright 2025, Arthur Newhook.

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