Melva Block
Grab
Description
Portrait of roller skater Melva Block. Typed on back: "Melva Block, United States Womens Skating Champion, Senior Division, who makes her screen debut in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor production, 'Private Miss Jones.' Miss Block, eighteen years of age, is the youngest to ever hold the skating title, and the only woman to ever win it two successive years. 'Private Miss Jones' has a cast featuring Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Jose Iturbi, Mary Astor and John Boles. It was directed by George Sidney, produced by Joseph Pasternak."
Details
- Resource ID:
- hr005566
- Subject:
- Block, Melva
- Women roller skaters
- Roller skates
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1943
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- Ernie Harwell Sports Collection
- Location:
- Photographs-Biography-Block, Melva
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.