This series contains personal photographs of Novarro and publicity shots and stills from several of his films. The majority of the photographs are contemporary prints or postcards produced by Novarro's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; however, a number of images, including most of those reproduced in Ellenberger's book, are reproduced from scans. The personal photographs, dating from the 1940s, were acquired by Ellenberger from Novarro's friend Edward Zubbrick. The series also contains a folder of photocopies of photographs published in secondary sources. The images in this folder are private or generic studio publicity shots: photocopies of stills from individual films are placed with other materials relating to those films among the subject files in Series 2: Research Notes and Files (see above).