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198212947JNew York: Delilah 1982. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to Hollywood actress Gwen Seager: “For Gwen - the golden girl of ‘the golden voice’ with thanks for being as lovely to be with. John Kobal.†Additionally signed with five signed presentation inscriptions from film director Bruce Martin and members of the crew of the documentary film Screen Dreams - The Hollywood Pinup based on this book of which Gwen Seager appeared in. Laid in is the original letter from the film production company asking her to appear with much information about the production as well as another thanking her for participating in the film. A superb collection of vintage black & white and color photographs of some of the most stunning women to grace the Hollywood screen. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a couple of small tears. Delilah unknown
1930155000Hollywood: Fox Movietone Studio 1930. Three vintage keybook photographs of sets in Fox Movietone City the filming lot that would eventually become the Twentieth Century-Fox studio lot. <br /> <br /> The Fox Studio known historically as Movietone City was the first complete facility created specifically for the production of motion pictures. First opened in October 1928 the studio was built in just under four months on the former William Selig/Polyscope studio lot located at Western Avenue and Sunset Boulevard and was named after Fox's newly acquired Movietone sound system. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Fox Movietone Studio unknown
197816442JLos Angeles: Twentieth Century - Fox 1978 - 1979. All three scripts bound together in one volume. This special leather bound copy belonged to the show’s co-executive producer and writer of the scripts Jack Haley Jr. and has his name in gilt on the front board below the title - also in gilt as is the spine. 59 pages. Fine lovely copy. The Pin-Up Girls script is a study of how the Pin-Up Girl emerged during World War II with actresses Ann Sheridan known as the Oomph Girl Lana Turner the Sweater Girl Dorothy Lamour the Sarong Girl Chili Williams the Polkadot Girl Marie MacDonald known as The Body Rita Hayworth was known as The Love Goddess and the most famous of all Betty Grable with her Milllion Dollar Legs. Black Magic looks at African American entertainers in Hollywood films with Bill Bojangles Robinson Lena Horne Nat King Cole the Nicholas Brothers Harry Belafonte and Diana Ross. The This Is Raquel script is a look at the life of actress Raquel Welch. Twentieth Century - Fox hardcover
40510Bacall inscription in ink; Cukor in pencil. 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Fine. Bacall inscription in ink; Cukor in pencil. 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Bacall and Cukor to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. unknown books
198212947JNew York: Delilah 1982. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to Hollywood actress Gwen Seager: “For Gwen - the golden girl of ‘the golden voice’ with thanks for being as lovely to be with. John Kobal.†Additionally signed with five signed presentation inscriptions from film director Bruce Martin and members of the crew of the documentary film Screen Dreams - The Hollywood Pinup based on this book of which Gwen Seager appeared in. Laid in is the original letter from the film production company asking her to appear with much information about the production as well as another thanking her for participating in the film. A superb collection of vintage black & white and color photographs of some of the most stunning women to grace the Hollywood screen. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a couple of small tears. Delilah unknown books
76 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of dogs looking at spring robin in tree; News items include - The land where they know it all (Russia), A 'Tough-Minded Arguer, The Will as a Life-Force, The Spiirit of Fair Play, Too Much Commercialism, German's 'Readjustment', In Fascist Italy, Russia's New Revolution, and Northern Ireland; One-page photo ad for the Frigidaire fridge with new silent 'meter-miser'; Nice one-page colour-illustrated Simmons mattress ad shows young lady having sweet dreams; The Glamour of "New" Egypt - photo-illustrated article of this nation, including photo of His Majesty King Farouk and his new Queen, plus a photo of Queen-Mother Nazli and three of the King's sisters with his Queen, Farida, at St. Moritz; All That Goes Up (short story); The Orphan (short story); The Spiked Gunn (short story); The Broke the Power of the Medicine Men - fascinating photo-illustrated true-crime article involving the native peoples of Northern Manitoba; Fruits of Defeat (short story); The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part II); Looking Two Ways in Sport - vintage sports article talks about hockey and includes photos of figure skaters Montgomery Wilson and Miss Eleanor O'Meara, plus boxer 'Baby' Yack, Canadian Bantamweight champion; Lovely one-page 1938 Chevrolet ad shows green car; Nostalgic one-page Heinz soup ad shows 1930's gent about to take a slurp; Italian tourism half-page ad; Nice half-page Canadian National ad features photos of their Jasper destination; Hollywood news includes photos of Marlene Dietrich, Merle Oberon, Bobbie Breen, and many more; Parker Vacumatic ad features photo of advice-giver Dorothy Dix; Vintage half-page ad for Sun Life features photo of mom with kids; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of dog Volhynia Kyra ("Silver") owned by Mrs. H. Randolph Casgrain of Westmount, Quebec; Nice photo-illustrated fashion article; Easter cooking article; Article about how every woman 'shall keep romance alive'; Colour half-page ad by the Government of Canada includes illustration of the Canada Building at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Scotland; World Sayings; Maxwell House coffee ad inside back cover; Congoleum flooring ad on back cover; and more. Centre page loose but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
112 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Red-Shafted Flicker by Fenwick Lansdowne; Colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Classy one-page colour ad for James Richardson & Sons celebrates their 100th anniversary; Half-page colour ad for GE electric blankets; "We don't have to put up with rock 'n' roll"; Beverley Baxter column talks about Lord Altrincham; Nice one-page colour ad for RCA Victor hi-fi products; Joseph Tucker's Triumphant Retreat from the Twentieth Century - he lives in the log cabin he built in Kuroki, Saskatchewan 46 years ago - great photo-illustrated article; Rosa Tremblay and her Seven Sets of Twins! - photo-illustrated article; The Dance of the Bells (short story); What Kind of Man Was Herbert Norman? - did the brilliant diplomat take his own life? - photo-illustrated article; Hangover at the OK Coral - what would happen if Hollywood stars really drank that much alcohol?; Seven gorgeous colour pages of bird illustrations by Fenwick Lansdowne; The Comedian Who Made the House of Commons - Photo-illustrated article on John Pratt; William Lawrence and his wonderful windjammer; The Unseen World of Taste and Smell; Vintage NCR one-page colour ad features supermarket checkout with huge old cash register; Lovely colour-photo two-page ad for Del Monte canned foods; Eight-page colour celebration of the 100th anniversary of the House of Seagram; Eva-Lis Wuorio describes her most memorable meal; Nice one-page colour-photo Caterpillar ad features Manitoba's Highway 1E before and after it was modernized; Nostalgic colour-photo Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank ad shows classic teller scene with glass barrier along counter; Colour-photo one-page Canadian Club ad features Charles Fidani who snatches ribbons (rosettes) from the forelock of charging bulls in Saliers, France (The Ribbon Game); Attractive one-page ad for Philips Styline TVs; One-page ad for Dictaphone shows executive speaking into microphone in his impressive office; Nice colour-photo Old Vienna beer ad shows man reaching for tray; Pilkington Glass colour-photo ad with scene in home of E.C. Vandervoort, Kingston, Ontario; Nice one-page colour-photo ad for Simmons Hide-A-Beds; One-page colour-photo ad for Youngstown Kitchens; Trans-Canada Air Lines one-page ad shows Venice scene; Crown & Anchor beer ad features colour photo of golf scene; Vintage colour-photo Samsonite luggage ad features beautiful Miss Canada 1957, Joan May Fitzpatrick; Vintage one-page A.V. Roe ad entitled "Belgium Chooses the Avro CF-100", with two photos; Back cover colour Coke ad with illustration in Germany's Black Forest; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady on red background; Nice colour-photo ad for Swift's Premium bacon inside front cover; Brief news items include The Ledger of Life, A Good Resolution, The Glow of True Happiness, We are Mostly All Strangers, and Improved Seeing and Knowing; Nice one-page ad for two new Ford V-8 cars for 1938, the Standard Ford V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe Ford V-8 Fordor; Editorials touch on - The Farmer and the Income Tax, Fascist Influence in the New World, Sources of Wealth, and World Trade; Attractively illustrated one-page McLaughlin Buick ad features a blue Series 46-19, Five-Passenger Sedan with Trunk; London's Famous Underground - photo-illustrated article; The Batley Inheritance (short story); Liberal Reward (short story); The Vagabonds (short story); Junior G-Men - photo-illustrated article on Vancouver Police Constable Ronald Eveleigh and his initiative to reduce juvenile delinquency; Strange Achievement - Charles E. Jones is founder of the world bird sanctuary at Collingwood East, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.; The Murder on the Links (part III/3 of this Agatha Christie story); Mystery Man of Golf - Laverne Moore, alias Johnny Montague - article with photos; Sweet Caporals ad features photo of dog 'Rathlin Roundalay', owned by Miss Katherine Savage of Montreal West, Quebec; Hollywood news with photos of Andrea Leeds, Nita NAldi, Lily Pons, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Douglass Montgomery, Jean Parker, and more; Photo of Alice Faye in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Article on Curling; Beauty article; Cooking article; Recipes; How to make a dinner mat; World Sayings; Nice colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy (lady in tub), and Rinso (lady on cliff); Canadian fish ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Cute colour cover illustration by Joachim Gauthier; Dignified colour ad inside front cover presents the new 1939 Ford cars, showing a dark green De Luxe V-8 Fordor Sedan and a blue V-8 Tudor Sedan; News digest includes these headings - For a Cool Head, What Happened at Munich, Two Different Problems, The Belgian Parallel, Keep the Home Fires Burning, and Books of the Season; One-page ad for Parker Vacumatic Pens; "The Bells of Bethlehem" - Photo-illustrated Christmas article on the Holy Land; Before St. Mihiel and All That (short story); Mrs. Scodger's Husband (short story); Letters to a Former Husband (short story); Britain's Army Road Scouts - great photo-illustrated article on the British Automobile Association (A.A.); The Man Who Was Lucky (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 2 of 5) by Agatha Christie; Salute to Winter Sport - article with photos of ski jumper, bob-sledders and the honourable rite of 'bouncing' (in front of the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec); Nice Kodak one-page ad; Hollywood news includes photos of Shirley Temple, Loretta Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Jane Withers, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Edward G. Robertson with his wife; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Personal Finance article; Christmas dinner suggestions and recipes; Gorgeous colour ad inside back cover for this magazine features formal couple and many front cover images on jet black background; Handsome colour Nash car ad on back cover features an orange 1939 four-door; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Brief news items - The Dominion's 71st Birthday, No Province Can Live to Itself, Unwholesome Periodicals, Women Under Fascism and Communism, Dominion Day, The South African Election, and Franco-Italian Conversations; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); Air Linger (short story); Just Beginning (short story); Man the Lifeboat - interesting photo-illustrated article on lifeboats and their need; Smooth Joe (short story); The Autobiography of Sir Herbert Barker (part II); Salvage (conclusion); Golf's Grand Old Man - photo-illustrated article on George S. Lyon; Palmolive ad features the Dionne Quints; Hollywood news, with photos of Edna May Oliver, Spencer Tracy, Alice Brady, Cora Witherspoon, John Barrymore, and others; The Dead Letter (short story); Dr. Robert H. Coats, Keeper of the Domesday Book, Custodian of the Censuses of Canada; Sweet Caporal cigarette ad features photo of dog "Bob", an Alsatian owned by Miss Elizabeth Brice of Westmount, Quebec; Business News/Personal Finance article; Summer cookery article; Glammour Girl in the Making - illustrated fashion article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Cover illustration of female skier by Jules Erbit; Ad for the Dodge "D2" (four-door) Touring Sedan inside front cover; Editorial discusses King Edward VIII succeeding King George V; Lucky Cumsie Jones (fiction); Everything Went Well Until (fiction); Japan's Amazing "War" on World Trade - fascinating photo-illustrated article discusses Japan's quick development as an exporting nation; The Spongers (fiction); The Fire Brand (fiction); The Kiss (fiction); The Sudbury Basin - Where Nickel is King - photo-illustrated article; Photo-illustrated article on the bobsleigh (bobsled) run at Lucerne-in-Quebec; Nice one-page Plymouth car photo ad; Nice one-page ad for Mutual Life of Canada features photos of sixteen children from across Canada including William Cruikshank of Lacombe, Alberta, Jaques Tremblay of Loretteville, Quebec, and Roma and Jack Porter of Sudbury; Classy colour GM centrefold ad features the "New Chevrolet"; Lysol half-page ad includes photo of the Dionne Quints; Hollywood News; Illustrated ad for Jaffa oranges and grapefruit from Palestine; Classy colour-illustrated ad for the new Ford V-8 for 1936 inside back cover; and more. Above-average external wear, primarily to coverfold. Covers detached by present. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
72 Pages. Features: Cover photo of British Tommy on Guard in Palestine; Full-page two-color ad for movie 'Carnegie Hall' starring Frank McHugh and Martha O'Driscoll; Classy one-page photo ad for Aquatoys rain coats available from Knox the Hatter; Nice one-page ad for Dumon televisions features the Sherwood model; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, David E. Lilienthal, says development of nuclear power depends upon our knowledge of the issues at stake; Six photos from the U.N. which held its first special session to discuss the challenge of Palestine; Full-page photo of bombed-out officer's club in Palestine; How to achieve industrial harmoney between labor and management; Close-up of China in Travail - photo-illustrated article from China where 'her people are broken in spirit, her economy is collapsing, and peace is still far away; Cavalcade of Hollywood Heroes; Adult education is an ever-growing need; Spring thunder of waterfalls; Half-page ad for Marlboro cigarettes; Photos of political leaders in the news; Nice half-page color ad for Glen Oaks Men's Sportswear; One-page color ad for La Tausca simulated pearls; Photos of feeding time at the zoo; Lovely full-page color-photo ad for Monk's Robes; Nice one-page color ad for Chicken of the Sea and White Star tuna features Gramma on an old-fashioned phone; Home pastry instructions; Two pages of gorgeous fashion photos of tasteful dresses; Full-page color ad for J'ray Underthings; Nice color ad for Sherbrooke rainwear; Nice Lovable Brassiere ad features attractive Miss Jean Welch as their girl-of-the-month; Wonderfully colorful photo ad on back cover for McGregor Sportswear features David Niven, starring in 'The Bishop's Wife'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage issue. Book
76 pages. Nice cover illustration of young couple discovering they have each bought a Christmas tree. Articles: Ill Take Sled Dogs for Rough Going - Alaskan ranger Grant Pearson travels by dog sled; Spare Parts for Human Bodies - The U.S. Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland maintains an inventory of replacement parts for wounded soldiers; The Ladies Like 'Em Rugged - John Wayne is Hollywood's No. 1 he-man; The Kids Don't Remember a Thing - a new generation of young Americans flies over England, defending her against the Reds; All-Time Champ of the Lobbyists - Sam Ward was the most engaging scoundrel to ever afflict Washington; It's Tough to Go to School in New Mexico - color-photo-illustrated article about kids in Catron County who commute up to 50 miles one way through savage territory and wicked weather; Our Softhearted Warriors in Korea - US Troops care for pathetic Korean war orphans; India Opens Her Hidden Storehouse - American machinery is tapping rich farmland in India; Article on Napalm a.k.a. Bouncing Fire; Every Brick of the Vernal, Utah Post Office was shipped in by Mail! Short Stories: Child of Divorce; Company for Christmas Dinner; Granny Hite and the Angry Mob; Small-Town Doctor. Serials: The Desperate Woman (part 5 of 6); The Great Mail Robbery (conclusion). Ads: Nice one-page colour-photo ad for Cyanamid features artist Andre Dugo painting Christmas Seal illustration; Fatima Cigarettes; Color-photo Caterpillar ad features two Cat dragging loads of Christmas trees from bush; Nice color-illustrated ad for Studebaker trucks inside back cover; Sunkist naval orange ad on back cover. Small chip from lower tip of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear and soiling. Faint pink discoloration near lower corner of several pages. Complete and intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Cover photo of soldier being welcomed home by his little girl; Great one-page color Rheingold beer ad features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd, who is duck hunting; How Can We Get Along With Russia?; Eight photos of life in the Stalin's Russia; Lord Wright, Chairman of the U.N. War Crimes Commission discusses the basis for bringing war criminals to justice; Joseph Ball discusses Labor and the Law, with half-page photo of Hollywood sit down at gate of the Warner Brothers studio; Japan's Women - under occupation they have suddenly been granted a new place and a new role in their country's life; - article with photos; Sinclair Lewis is back on Main Street; Bold red one-page ad for Schaefer beer features oysters; How Bridgeport CT mobilized for peace as they did for war - article with photos; Australian Foreign Minister Dr. Herbert V. Evatt; Nice color-photo one-page ad for Revlon's 'Fatal Apple' nail color; Nine nice photos of classy dresses; One-page two-color ad for Emerson radios; Intersting back cover color ad for Forst's Catskill Mountain Smoked Turkey; and more. Moderate external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Mild age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII-era issue. Book
114 pages. Articles: Wanted - A Miracle in Greece - staving off economic collapse and Communist inroads; Hollywood Headache - The movie moguls are atwitter these days - audiences down, censors upset, costs up, etc. - nice color photos; Tuned in on the Surgeon - doctors now witness operations via television; The Abundant Henry Wallace - study of a man who'd like to be a key in the 1948 political scene; Heartless Harvest (conclusion) - plight of the country's migrant field workers; Behind Your Stick of Gum - men brave death in tropic jungles to gather its basic ingredients - with photos; They Can't Fool the Revenue Man - few succeed in income-tax evasion; Young Man of Fashion - Mr. Charlie James and his super dress designs - article with great color photos. Fiction: Sweet Water (part 1 of 5); Charlie Squires and the Seven Marchettis; Banner Over First; The Split Hickory; A Wonderful Mixer; Wait and See. Includes ads for: Parker pens (featuring Lily Pons); RKO movies; De Beers - featuring Miss Jean Bullitt of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; Philco radio-phonographs; Plymouth cars; Firestone; Dodge cars; Mansfield Jogs shoes; Chevrolet cars; Cory all-glass coffee brewers - two pages!; Miller beer; DeSoto cars; Vintage cartoonPepsi ad involving large excavator; Fantastic two-page color ad for movie "Unconquered" starring Gary Cooper; American Airlines; Caterpillar - great color-photo ad with dozer and scraper; Westinghouse record players; Kodak film; Remington electric shaver ad features Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in scene from movie "Welcome Stranger"; Are You Mitty?: Gillette razors; Budweiser; National Guard - with large photo of President Truman; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Somewhat above-average external wear. Covers holding by one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: ; Nostalgic RCA photo-ad inside front cover shows civilian walkie talkies (early 'cell phones') at work; Why Do Men Strike, and What's To Be Done?; Fear Dominates Japan - a first-hand report by Frank L. Kluckhorn on the difficulties we face in remaking a whole people's way of life and thought - with photos; Teaching men to be free - in colleges today courses in basic human knowledge replace traditional electives; Winning the Peace - It is Our Job; Our New Concept of the Universe, by Harry M.Davis; Opportunities for Veterans with the help of the Veteran's Administration (VA); In Lisbon Falls, Maine a benefit is held to raise funds for Virgil Healey after his home was burned; S.J. Woolf Talks About New York; Hollywood Movies Defended - An American View; Nice one-page color ad for Elco, the Electric Boat Company; "Traditional Modern' home design photos; Moscow is not New York - all the differences between socialism and individualism are reflected in the streets; A Farewell to Ration Books, although in their use Americans found profit and a sense of sharing; Half-page of cartoons of GI life in occupied Japan; Color Super Suds ad features Mrs. Lorett R. Kelly; Nice one-page color ad for Sara Lee Fruit Cake; Delinquency has hidden roots; Attractive one-page color ad for Face Powder Tabu by Dana; Hope for the Home Laundry - washing machines and irons are being mass-produced; Two pages of attractive fashion photos for women called "The Importance of Details"; Nice one-page color ad for Chateau Martin wine; Nice one-page color ad for B. Altman & Co. hats for men; Back cover color ad for Knit-tex topcoats for men; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII-era issue. Book
68 pages. Songs include: Breakfast in America; The Logical Song; Gone Hollywood; Goodbye Stranger; Oh Darling; Take the Long Way Home; Casual Conversations; Lord is it Mine; Just Another Nervous Wreck; Child of Vision. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy of this wonderful memento of Supertramp's glory days in the late 1970s. Would make a wonderful gift. Book
1931HOLLYWOO016258Heinemann London. 1931. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo. pp x 275. Plain wrappers. A biography of one of the pioneers in the moving pictures business and the prime mover in the creation of Universal Studios. Ogden Nash bestowed upon him the honour of a couplet albeit inspired by a perceived nepotism: ''Uncle Carl Laemmle/Has a very large faemmle''. Nine corrections by the author; on the front cover he has listed the page numbers where they occur.Presentation copy from the author inscribed on the half-title page: ''Corrected proofs for Jeff from John Drinkwater - September 1st 1932''. The recipient is his secretary Winifred Gwyn Jeffreys.Covers a bit creased. Very good. Heinemann, London. unknown
404967-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Fine. 7-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Two Hollywood actors of markedly different styles and fortunes: Mickey Rooney born 1920 youthful box office draw and major star in 1938 rising to the height of his popularity; and veteran character actor Reginald Gardiner 1903-1980 who appeared most often as an urbane Englishman with a mustache in dozens of films and on Broadway from the 1920s to the 1960s. unknown
2002107274<p>NY:: Pocket Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0743456904 . Color and black and white photographs throughout. Stated first printing. SIGNED by Hulk Hogan on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ; 343 pages; Signed by Author .</p> Pocket Books, hardcover
194521236EBerkeley and Los Angeles CA: University of California Press 1945 1946 1947. Eight original issues of ‘Hollywood Quarterly’ magazine published under the joint sponsorship of the University of California and the Hollywood Quarterly Associates: for 1945 - Volume 1 October 1945 Number 1; for 1946 - Volume 1 January 1946 Number 2 with a supplement to Volume 1 1946 Volume 1 April 1946 Number 3 Volume 1 July 1946 Number 4 and Volume II October 1946 Number 1; and for 1947 - Volume II January 1947 Number 2 Volume II April 1947 Number 3 and Volume II July 1947 Number 4. All paperbound 6 3/4†x 10â€. The condition runs from bright very good lightly handled copies with some small chips and tears to one Volume II April 1947 Number 3 with dampstaining to the covers slightly affecting a few interior pages. Hollywood Quarterly was a quarterly journal devoted to the study and coverage of film television and visual media which ran from 1945 - 1951 when it became Quarterly of Film Radio and Television from 1951 - 1958 until its present incarnation as Film Quarterly. University of California Press unknown
194521236EBerkeley and Los Angeles CA: University of California Press 1945 1946 1947. Eight original issues of ‘Hollywood Quarterly’ magazine published under the joint sponsorship of the University of California and the Hollywood Quarterly Associates: for 1945 - Volume 1 October 1945 Number 1; for 1946 - Volume 1 January 1946 Number 2 with a supplement to Volume 1 1946 Volume 1 April 1946 Number 3 Volume 1 July 1946 Number 4 and Volume II October 1946 Number 1; and for 1947 - Volume II January 1947 Number 2 Volume II April 1947 Number 3 and Volume II July 1947 Number 4. All paperbound 6 3/4†x 10â€. The condition runs from bright very good lightly handled copies with some small chips and tears to one Volume II April 1947 Number 3 with dampstaining to the covers slightly affecting a few interior pages. Hollywood Quarterly was a quarterly journal devoted to the study and coverage of film television and visual media which ran from 1945 - 1951 when it became Quarterly of Film Radio and Television from 1951 - 1958 until its present incarnation as Film Quarterly. University of California Press unknown books
404967-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Fine. 7-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Two Hollywood actors of markedly different styles and fortunes: Mickey Rooney born 1920 youthful box office draw and major star in 1938 rising to the height of his popularity; and veteran character actor Reginald Gardiner 1903-1980 who appeared most often as an urbane Englishman with a mustache in dozens of films and on Broadway from the 1920s to the 1960s. unknown books
23776Anstey's TLS on his Daily Telegraph Magazine letterhead and dated 20 March 1970. Hayden-Guest's article evidently written shortly before that date. A curious artefact indicating Garbo’s iconic status and an early example of a journalistic trend which has gained ground since the late 1960s. Hayden-Guest still active as a writer is the son of the diplomat Peter Haden-Guest 4th Baron Haden-Guest and brother of the 5th Baron Christopher who is won fame as ‘Nigel’ in the film ‘Spinal Tap’. Anstey who edited the Daily Telegraph magazine for twenty-two years from its inception in 1964 has been variously described as ‘the last of the great autocratic magazine editors’ ‘tyrannical’ and ‘completely terrifying’ with a habit of sending his employees ‘alarming memos on the eve of their summer holidays’. He ‘did not often meet his reporters personally instead he wrote notes and invited them once a year to the magazine’s Christmas party’. While grateful for the money John Betjeman found working for the magazine ‘hateful’. Gitta Sereny who contributed extensively to what she considered ‘the best of the weekend colour supplements’ found Anstey ‘difficult’ but ‘extraordinary’. Both are items in fair condition lightly aged and stapled together. ONE: Unsigned Carbon Typescript of article titled ‘GRETA GARBO - a Personal Memoir Anthony Haden-Guest’. 5pp long 8vo. Single-spaced on five leaves. As Item Two makes clear the article is a spoof of the ‘type of article’ which Anstey describes as the ‘anti-profile’: pretentious and implying in conspiratorial tones an implausible familiarity with the subject. It is the sort of writing which Martin Amis would begin by satirizing. The beginning sets the tone: ‘Some people just a few call her ‘Greta’ right to her face That face. Charlie Chaplin does to name but one. All the same most people who are so close that they could call her ‘Greta’ in fact call her ‘G. G.’. Acquaintances But wouldn’t that be enough call her “Miss Garbo†and a very few indulge her own conspiratorial urges and refer to her as “Miss Brownâ€. As indeed she sometimes does herself. I am indebted for this information to the writings of Mr Norman Zierold who does not say what he calls her or what she calls him. / Personally I like to call her simply “Greta Garboâ€.’ Further on comes a passage which like the rest of the article may or may not be a complete fiction: ‘Actually the first time that I was introduced to Greta Garbo was under pretty funny circumstances but Destiny as so many of her great motion pictures have pointed out gets up to some pretty funny things. Certainly it seemed funny to see Garbo at a party especially this sort of party a flourescent celebration of . . . Well not Garbo though she is incontestably the centre of it all. An acid/rock group is pounding nervily away into the statutory light-machine and a film is being projected onto a wall which is white and narrow - so narrow that most of the party is taking place without artistic licence in the movie.’ Towards the end Haden-Guest stretches the bounds of credulity with the following: ‘Great Garbo! Now she is looking at me . . . The ageing roue is nowhere to be seen. Her shoulders are working hugely and her throat and the face . . . planes shift as conflicting emotions do massive internal furniture removals but now Garbo looks so worried and she says it - She actually says it - “I want to be aloneâ€. / Yes she is really saying it and not just once because she repeats it - “I want to be aloneâ€. / Well yes. Great Garbo want to be alone -’. TWO: Typed Letter Signed ‘J A’ from John Anstey 20 March 1970 addressed to ‘Anthony Haden-Guest Esq. C/o Chateau Marmont Los Angeles California U.S.A.’ ‘c. c. Pat Kavanagh’ 1p 8vo. He begins: ‘Dear Anthony I read the Great Garbo article when it first came in. Last night I read it again. It is a difficult one. However I know that you have misgivings about it - and I fear that I have them too.’ Anstey’s opinion is that the piece ‘just does not work at the moment. ‘It does not come across as the sort of “anti-profile†we were thinking about. It starts off by being intriguing. But then one just gets confused and there is a danger of it seeming rather pretentious: which is one of the faults of the type of article which it should be satirizing.’ He suggests that they ‘look at it again’ when Haden-Guest gets back from America. ‘The formula is right at the moment but we must overcome the danger of pretentiousness and it must seem less pointless than it is at the moment. The last paragraph cleverly suggests that there is nothing more to know about Greta Garbo than we learn here: but somehow I think that we have got to say more.’ The letter ends: ‘How is California Can you let me know about the Hollywood idea as soon as possible.’ Not known if published in any form despite Googlebooks. Anstey's TLS on his Daily Telegraph Magazine letterhead, and dated 20 March 1970. Hayden-Guest's article evidently written short unknown
17960Both on his letterhead 11 Apple Tree Yard. 23 August and 24 November 1949. Both items in good condition lightly-aged. ONE: 2pp. 4to. Having returned from 'a rather long painting expedition to France' he finds that 'circumstances have arisen in regard to the administration of the Society' the Society of British Film Art Directors and Designers of which Craig was a leading light and in the light of these circumstances Irving feels compelled to resign. 'It is . unlikely that I shall design any more films. Life is short and there is so much to be done that even if anybody wished me to I should hesitate to commit myself to the months not only of work but of preoccupation which a film production involves. Quite apart from this I feel that the principles of film design which however wrongly I have always advocated are being abandoned naturally in the face of economic pressure and the general registration of film making. I am old fashioned enough to believe that the situation into which films have fallen is very largely due to the insistance sic of those who have misguidedly and not very successfully tried to make it into an industry rather than a medium of expression for groups of artists of enterprise and imagination.' Two more paragraphs follow before the letter ends. TWO: 1p. 4to. Following the last letter Irving has been offered honorary membership of the Society and writes: 'I do not feel that I deserve such consideration for you and several others have striven hard to maintain the prestige of Art Directors in the gruelling factory conditions of commercial studios through good and bad times. However as you well know to an artist the only commendation or criticism which really touches him is that of his fellow craftsmen .'. He offers his assistance to the Society before ending: 'I heard from Flower that your meeting in London was a success and that you are going to get out drawings and plans for the proposed Elizabethan theatre. I am very glad to hear this and I know you will find the Stratford people charming to deal with.' Both on his letterhead, 11 Apple Tree Yard. 23 August and 24 November 1949. unknown