Editing Keye Luke (section)

==Artist==
Before becoming an actor, he was an artist in Seattle and, later, Hollywood. Luke worked on several of the murals inside [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]]. He did some of the original artwork for the [[pressbook]] of the original ''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]'' (1933). Luke also painted a mural for the casino set in ''[[The Shanghai Gesture]]'' (1941).

He published a limited edition set of pen and ink drawings of the ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]]'' in the 1950s. He also created illustrations for the books ''The Unfinished Song of Achmed Mohammed'' by Earle Liederman, ''Blessed Mother Goose'' by [[Frank Scully]] and an edition of ''Messer Marco Polo'' by [[Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne]] (unpublished).<ref name="auto" /> Other artwork completed by Luke included the dust jackets for books published in the 1950s and 1960s. It was through his studio art work that he was recruited for his earliest movie roles.