Wallace Beery Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Jockeys with the seven candidates

Jockeys with the seven candidates for the four City of London seats

Infanta Margarita Teresa (1651-1673) in a Blue Dress

by Antoine CÚsar Becquerel (Paris

Ipomoea sagittata

perched on a branch

Wallace Beery Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Jockeys with the seven candidatesWallace Beery (1885 1949), American actor, c1930s c1940s. A star of many silent Hollywood films, the arrival of sound saw Beery as one of the victims of the wholesale studio purge. However, MGM executive Irving Thalberg saw something in Beery and hired him for the studio. Beery was cast in The Big House (1930), for which he received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. The next year Beery would win the Oscar for Best Actor in Charlie chaplin's The