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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
1936157965N.p.: N.p. 1936. Collection of six vintage photographs of Hollywood studios circa 1936. Includes three double weight and three single-weight photographs. Two photographs with the stamp of Holly Photo Service on the verso. <br /> <br /> One photograph shows an aerial view of Warner Brothers First National and Cosmopolitan studios in Burbank. One photograph shows Columbia Studios with an annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso noting the year as 1936. One photograph shows Republic Studios. Finally three double weight photographs show aerial views of what appears to be the burgeoning Warner Brothers lot from different angles.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
192863463New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1928. 8vo. 297 pp. plus 15 pp. publisher’s ads. Blue publisher’s cloth orange lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of his starlet wife Fania Marinoff 1890-1971 in leggy costume slight chipping head of spine couple minor closed tears still NF/VG copy. First Grosset edition of this screwball comedy polemic against the absurdity and overboard nature of Hollywood after a Broadway playwrite heads to Los Angeles and becomes involved with movie moguls Herbert Ringrose and Ben Griesheimer and screwball adventures with the splendid screen actress “Imperia Starling.†Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
71206No place UK 1965. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the BLC Films production of The Chase produced by Sam Spiegal adapted from the book by Lilian Hellman. Sole printing. 32 x 24cm. A six-page fold out brochure providing cast and credits tie-in promotion for the soundtrack album ordering facilities for film stills and advert blocks. Fine condition. Topical American drama touching upon issues of racism sexual revolution small town corruption and excessive immorality starring Marlon Brando Jane Fonda Robert Redford James Fox Robert Duvall and Angie Dickinson. The score was by James Bond film composer John Barry. No place (UK), 1965 unknown
71203No place UK 1965. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the MGM film The Cincinnati Kid produced by Martin Ransohoff adapted from the best-selling novel by Richard Jessup. Sole printing. 32 x 24cm. A twelve-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits tie-in promotion for the paperback book toiletries etc ordering facilities for film stills and advert blocks. Fine condition. A poker showdown drama film directed by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen Edward G. Robinson Ann-Margret and Tuesday Weld with a theme song by Ray Charles. Supporting actress Joan Blondell won a Golden Globe. Adapted from the bestselling novel which the poker-playing author Ian Fleming had promoted in the UK with a favourable review. From the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert pencil signature within. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming 2012 won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. No place (UK), 1965 unknown
19748469San Diego: Greenleaf Classics Inc 1974. First edition paperback original Midnight Reader MR 7515. Illustrated wrappers uncredited. Hole punch in front cover light edge wear and toning minimal spine crease. VG/NF. <br /> <br /> Quite scarce Midnight Reader from Greenleaf Classics telling the tale of a fledgling writer prostituting himself and his wife for his first big break in Hollywood. Greenleaf Classics, Inc unknown
71188No place UK 1967. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the MGM film The Dirty Dozen produced by Kenneth Hynan adapted from the best-selling novel by E.M. Nathanson. Sole printing. 32 x 24cm. An eight-page brochure providing cast and credits tie-in promotion for the soundtrack LP original novel ordering facilities for film stills and advert blocks with campaign artwork to front cover. Fine condition. Shot entirely in the UK The Dirty Dozen is an American Second World War film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine Charles Bronson Jim Brown John Cassavetes Richard Jaeckel George Kennedy Ralph Meeker Robert Ryan Trini Lopez Telly Savalas Donald Sutherland Clint Walker and Robert Webber. The movie proved to be a huge commercial hit replacing 'You Only Live Twice' at number one at the U.S. box office becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM's highest-grossing film of the year. It won an Oscar for sound editing and spawned several film sequels. No place (UK), 1967 unknown
71178No place UK 1962. Film promotion Two original synopses for films based on novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Sole printings. 21 x 26cm. Each being a two-page flyer providing cast credits and film story. Printed in colour. Although unmarked these are from the collection of Joel Finler. One fold to 'Gatsby' else fine. One fold to 'Tender'; near fine. Together with a duplicate of 'Tender' good only. Paramount Pictures 'Gatsby' starring Alan Ladd and Betty Field was produced by Richard Maibaum who went on to write thirteen of the sixteen Eon Productions James Bond films produced between 1962 and 1989. 'Tender is The Night' was an Oscar nominated film starring Jason Robards Jennifer Jones and in an early role Jill St.John who later starred as the female lead in Diamonds Are Forever. Joel W. Finler born 1938 was the first film critic for Time Out. He is the author of numerous books on cinema and film directors including Stroheim Alfred Hitchcock - The Hollywood Years The Movie Director's Story and the award-winning The Hollywood Story. He is also a picture archivist. No place (UK), 1962 unknown
71190No place UK 1967. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the MGM film The Heroin Gang adapted from the novel 'The Friut of the Poppy' by Robert Wilder. Sole printing. 32 x 24cm. A six-page fold out brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. One horizontal fold else fine. A result of the '60s spy fiction craze this is a narcotics thriller directed by Brian G. Hutton starring David McCallum Stella Stevens Telly Savalas and Ricardo Montalbán. Actor John Cassavetes was replaced by Rip Torn prior to filming. McCallum was a household name due to Ian Fleming's brainchild series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Telly Savalas would star in the following year's blockbuster James Bond film. The Heroin Gang was produced by Elliott Kastner who had a successful partnership with thriller writer Alistair MacLean adaptating his novels Where Eagles Dare When Eight Bells Toll Fear is the Key and Breakheart Pass. From the espionage collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. No place (UK), 1967 unknown
71261No place UK c.1967. Movie Memorabilia Large format press book for the United Artists' films. Sole printing. 37 x 25cm. A ten-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Fine condition. Campaign book for the double-feature of Magnificent Seven films starring Yul Brynner. The Oscar-nominated original movie is ranked among the greatest films of the Western genre and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. No place (UK), c.1967 unknown
71176No place UK 1946. Film promotion An original synopsis for the 20th Century Fox production of The Razor's Edge based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Sole printing. 25 x 20cm. A two-page flyer providing cast credits and film story with campaign artwork to front side ideal for framing. Printed in colour. Although unmarked this is from the collection of Joel Finler. Light handling three folds some light creases. Very good. A drama directed by Edmund Goulding produced by Darryl F. Zannuck starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. The film received four Oascar nominations winning one Anne Baxter Best Supporting Actress. Joel W. Finler born 1938 was the first film critic for Time Out. He is the author of numerous books on cinema and film directors including Stroheim Alfred Hitchcock - The Hollywood Years The Movie Director's Story and the award-winning The Hollywood Story. He is also a picture archivist. No place (UK), 1946 unknown
71193No place UK 1966 released January 1967. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the MGM film The Venetain Affair adapted from the novel by Helen McInnes. Sole printing. 32 x 24cm. An eight-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising with campaign artwork to front cover. Fine condition. A result of the '60s spy fiction craze this is a CIA crime thriller directed by Jerry Thorpe starring Robert Vaughan Elke Sommer and Luciana Paluzzi. Vaughan was a household name due to Ian Fleming's brainchild series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Luciana Pauluzzi had recently starred in the James Bond film Thunderball 1965. From the espionage collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. No place (UK), 1966 [released January 1967] 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
199028248New York:: Harper & Row 1990. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This is an informative study of the lives and contributions to the movie business of the many and sometimes distinguished writers who stood out of the limelight in Hollywood and rarely received fair credit.: Fitzgerald Hammett Chandler Faulkner and West. Hamilton also explores the world of the professional screenwriters those ex-newspapermen failed playwrights and New York wits who flooded into Hollywood during the Great Talkies Panic and stayed to take both the big money and the indignity of toiling on a literary assembly line producing scripts that were then red-penciled by Hays Office censors studio moguls martinet directors and wartime propagandists. Here are the long fight over the Screen Writers Guild the story of the Hollywood Ten and the conflicting political pressures that wracked the industry during the pre- and postwar years. Here are not just the spectacular failures but those writers like P.G. Wodehouse who took the money and ran and those life Ben Hecht Nunnally Johnson Herman Mankiewicz and Anita Loos--highly paid professionals who produced box office successes still loved by moviegoers sixty years later. Harper & Row, hardcover
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
1976170429Los Angeles: Carl Gottlieb 1976. Original two-page typed letter signed to producer Fred Roos from screenwriter Carl Gottlieb on Gottlieb's letterhead dated May 12 1976.<br /> <br /> Gottlieb best known as the co-screenwriter along with author Peter Benchley for Steven Speilberg's "Jaws" 1975 writes cordially to Francis Ford Coppola's long-time producer Fred Roos on location in the Philippines working on "Apocalypse Now" regarding the "Coppola Company's" Zoetrope Studios sponsorship on Gottlieb's unproduced project "My Country" which Gottlieb notes has been shopped to the major studios without commitment.<br /> <br /> Gottlieb's letter also notes meeting Teri Garr and Richard Dreyfuss at Steven Speilberg's house "noodling" on the script for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" a week prior to the commencement of shooting in Wyoming and Alabama. <br /> <br /> An insightful look into the latter third of the New Hollywood Cinema era and the commencement of the "summer blockbuster" era.<br /> <br /> 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine bound with a single staple to the top left corner with two horizontal creases from mailing and a two-hole punch at the top margin. Carl Gottlieb unknown
63-1771Hollywood CA: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Printed Signed 9" x 7" Black & White Photograph. Very Good with pin holes at corners. Marian Nixon was a silent film star most known for her role opposite Lon Chaney in the 1925 movie The Phantom Of The Opera. The autograph is printed not original. Hollywood, CA: [Fox Film Corporation], [1932]. unknown
199716523New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1997. First Edition. Large octavo. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 382pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight straight copy of the first hardcover edition; one page corner turned down else very Near Fine in a crisp unworn dustwrapper. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
80599Los Angeles: Local 644 International Motion Picture Painters Union 1945. First Edition. Sole printing. Quarto 11" x 8-1/2". 189 unnumbered mimeographed sheets including title page and introduction printed recto-only chiefly illustrations; post-bound at left margin. Unprinted card rear cover wrapper possibly later; no front cover wrapper else complete and probably as issued. Minor edge-creasing and wear; faint marginal stain to final 15 leaves well away from printed area; evidence of old adhesion to cover page not affecting legibility; Very Good and quite well-preserved especially considering the volume's inherent fragility. <br /> <br /> A bound volume presumably one of very few produced collecting all of the circa 185 issues of "The Picket Line" a cartoon broadside distributed daily to striking workers during the 1945 Hollywood Film Strike which began in March 1945 following a walkout by the Hollywood local of the International Set Decorators Union. A number of sympathetic locals joined the strike but others - including the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Screen Office Employees' Guild - refused to honor the picket line leading to a lockout that lasted more than five months. <br /> <br /> The cartoons draw on topical events often commenting humorously on developments of the day before. A recurring comic character is a sardonic rat an avatar for the union scabs who refused to join the strike weakening the position of labor and paving the way to the violent events of October 5 1945 the so-called "Hollywood Black Friday" when strikebreakers were brought in to violently suppress the strike fire-hosing and clubbing dozens of strikers in front of the gates of Warner Brothers Studios. All of these events are pictured here with the upbeat mood of the drawings growing increasingly dark following the events of Black Friday. The cartoons are preceded by a one-page introduction giving the background of the strike and tracing its history through its conclusion which came when the strikers finally called a truce on October 31st. A rarely-seen relic of one of the darkest incidents in Hollywood labor history. Rare: OCLC notes three copies MSU UM and UCLA; not generally seen in commerce. unknown
192463247Hollywood CA: Hollywood Publishers Inc. Printed and bound by The Los Angeles Lithograph Co. Inc. 1924. 8vo. 543 1 pp. With photo plates throughout many consisting of photo montages facsimile signatures at the end of each article by the respective artist. Brown publisher’s embossed flexible cloth covers lettering and cover art illustration in blind of motion picture camera stars & palm tree front cover lettering in blind on front cover minor scuffing to head & foot of spine minor rubbing inner hinges neatly repaired ever-so-faint tidemark at fore-edges of preliminary & end leaves still a VG- copy from library of Donald M. Patton 1897-1951 former singer performer with the Ellison-White Chautauqua Circuit and later insurance broker in Portland OR and later Los Angeles CA. First edition of this fascinating work prepared from 1921-1924 with assistance of the Western Motion Picture Advertisers providing an essential and detailed history and snapshot of Silent Movie era Hollywood with a focus on the pre-Code moviemaking and industry itself. Included are essays and advice from such artists as Norma Talmadge on “What percentage of Girls Who Come to Hollywood Actually Achieve Success;†Constance Talmadge “What Opportunities are There for a Girl Who is Willing to Work to Stardom;†Betty Compson “Not a Life of Ease;†Clara Bow “What are the Essentials of Success†Edward Connelley “Aspirants Should Have Some Stage Experience;†as well as Wallace Beery “What is a “Heavy†Man.†Other contributors include Charlie Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks Rudolph Valentino Lon Chaney Sr. Buster Keaton Harold Lloyd Mary Pickford Tom Mix and others. Worldcat locates 1 copy Danish National Bibl. Hollywood Publishers, Inc., [Printed and bound by The Los Angeles Lithograph Co., Inc.], hardcover
1987127832Marilyn Monroe 1987. Very Good. Original cardboard movie standee of Marilyn Monroe circa 1987 reprints a familiar image from the release of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1953 where she dances in a similar dress. She wears this dress too in the the film and the standee is cropped from an actual press photo of Marilyn walking with Jane Russell. Bernard of Hollywood took photographs of Marilyn in the same dress but vintage standees from these photos are uncommon. Corrugated cardboard 1/8-inch printed recto 72 inches tall 22 inches base 11 inches head. Very Good Plus overall a few small bruises light bend to the neck and to the shoulder area brief edge bumps slight overall concavity faint stains on the verso. Support stand intact and strong. Shipping at cost no international shipping. Marilyn Monroe unknown
1960List3205New York City: Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers 1960. Photo album measuring 9 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches containing forty-seven photographs mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller with some 8 x 10. Most photos loosely affixed with some having detached. Overall excellent. An album of photographs of African American models from the 1950s and 1960s many with stamps verso from Ophelia DeVore’s Grace del Marco Modeling Agency. DeVore’s was among the first agencies for African American models and was highly influential with talent including the first Black supermodel Helen Williams Shaft actor Richard Roundtree and pioneering actresses Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson. Identified models in this album include Trudy Daniels Haynes and Lourdes “Lulu†Guerrero. Guerrero was a cover girl for Ebony and Jet magazines and had a role on The Jackie Gleason Show in 1958 making her one of the first Black women to have a role as a regular performer on national television. Trudy Haynes had a brief modeling career before becoming the first African American TV weather reporter working with WXYZ-TV in Detroit in 1963. There is also a photograph of radio DJ Pat Connell; though not a fashion model Connell was the first African American hired as a staff announcer by CBS. Of interest to historians of African American fashion and media. Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers unknown
68-7580Hollywood CA: 20th Century Hollywood Studio ca. 1945. B&W Photo. 10" x 8" Very Good. Hollywood, CA: [20th Century Hollywood Studio], [ca. 1945] unknown
68-7544Hollywood CA: 20th Century Hollywood Studio ca. 1950. B&W Photo. 9" x 7.5" Very Good. Hollywood, CA: [20th Century Hollywood Studio, ca. 1950]. unknown
68-7538Hollywood CA: 20th Century Hollywood Studio ca. 1950. B&W Photo. 20 x 14.5 cm. Very Good Hollywood, CA: [20th Century Hollywood Studio], [ca. 1950]. unknown