Auburn Speedster Movie Set Shot........

Agreed.  This is not the car for a rear mount spare, which typically looks great on all other prewar cars.  To stream line a design to be broken up.

Looks beat to crap.  Typical of a movie car.  There are other pictures of this car or a similar one with a rear spare somewhere.  I just can't find them.

Yowza!

Virginia Bruce was born in 1910 and had a substantial career in  1930s and 1940s, best known for introducing Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” in Born to Dance (1936) and playing a Ziegfeld showgirl in The Great Ziegfeld the same year.  Weirdly 3 of her 4 husbands died within a few years of marrying her (she didn't do it).  She largely retired from films in the early 1960s and died of cancer in 1982.

Like many actors and actresses her personal life was "complicated".   Her first marriage ceremony was in her future husbands dressing room after a play he was performing in.   They divorced a few years later and he was dead a year after that   There was a pattern with the next husbands passing away early.