The Echo of a Distant Time: “When the black cat crosses your path and still you smile, you’re the lucky one.”

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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