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WALTER-FILM002290No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27"" 104 x 69 cm. poster USA. Julian Eltinge dir: William De Mille; Paramount. On linen with some touchups in blank margins and along old foldlines VERY GOOD. Julian Eltinge was the most celebrated drag performer of his generation. He attained great success on Broadway where a theater on 42nd Street was named after him and he also starred in a few films. Very scarce as are all of Eltinge's posters and film appears to be lost. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000182No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 36"" 35 x 91 cm. insert poster USA. James Stewart Grace Kelly Wendell Corey Thelma Ritter dir: Alfred Hitchcock; Paramount. The story of an apartment-bound man who takes an interest in the many neighbors living in the building behind him including the revelation of a murder. An interesting aspect which helped create the world in which James Stewart's character lived is that all of the sounds were ""live"" -- all dialogue the sounds of people autos and all music cues were sounds which were live within the story. Just another wonderful Hitchcock touch. Minor border wear repaired and touched-up without necessitating tape or backing. Insert appears to have never been folded NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000149No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Marlene Dietrich Sam Jaffe John Loder C. Aubrey Smith Gavin Gordon dir: Josef von Sternberg; Paramount. One of the finest lobby cards for one of film history's most truly bizarre movies. Perhaps this was Sternberg's answer for Dietrich to her great competitor Greta Garbo's Queen Christina. While that film attempted to tell an accurate historical account of a historic queen this film was a major experiment in style. The basis was the story of Princess Sophia of Germany who is taken to Russia to marry half wit Grand Duke Peter played with aplomb insanity by Jaffe. The Princess is repulsed by him finds love with a Russian soldier and produces a son. No one asks questions and she moves on to become Catherine the Great. Much of the film was silent and drenched in Gothic sets set pieces and artifice shot through diffusions of all kinds and lit in expressionistic ways which have never been duplicated. It became an homage by Sternberg who was by now obsessed to Dietrich. Dietrich is swathed in a fur creation by Travis Banton. There are a few scattered pinholes to an otherwise perfect card with vibrant colors FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000033No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 27 x 41"" 68 x 102 cm. one sheet poster USA. W. C. Fields Martha Raye Dorothy Lamour Shirley Ross Bob Hope Lynne Overman Ben Blue dir: Mitchell Leisen; Paramount. One of the finest and best remembered of the 1930s musicals if for no other reason than the introduction by Ross and Hope his first feature role of the classic song ""Thanks for the Memory"" it won the Academy Award. Martha Raye who did her own stunts in a raucously entertaining number was ingeniously cast as W. C. Fields' daughter in his last film for Paramount. Everyone shone in their musical moments in a story which concerned a race between two ocean liners from which the new S.S. Gigantic had a big radio broadcast emitting you see the turbine engine worked on radio waves is the explanation!. Amongst the numbers broadcast and lavishly staged were Kirsten Flagstad performing Wagner in full opera regalia. The radio audience was not able to see the extravagant finale concerning the history of dance but the film audience could. Direction by Mitchell Leisen lifted the film above the normal musical faire of the period. On linen NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000173No binding. Good. Fine Art Print Four 4 vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby cards USA. Fay Wray George Bancroft Richard Arlen Tully Marshall dir: Joseph von Sternberg; Paramount. Superb card from a film which is considered to be one of the first in the film noir genre. A top star of the time George Bancroft was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in this film. Story of a criminal named Thunderbolt Bancroft who is imprisoned and facing execution. An innocent man who has been framed named Bob Morgan Arlen is placed in the cell next to Thunderbolt. Unknowing of the relationship Bob has fallen in love with Thunderbolt's girl Wray while on the outside. Thunderbolt plots to stop his own execution long enough to kill Bob. A revolutionary early sound film which made use of asynchronous dialogue long before this became standard and made by the highly regarded director of world cinema Joseph von Sternberg. Art direction was by Hans Drier. The script was by Charles and Jules Furthman and Herman J. Mankiewicz. Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sternberg wrote the dialogue. Bancroft and Wray appear in three of the cards. Wray Arlen and another actor are in the fourth. Stunning color and Art Deco title treatments. One of the cards was illustrated in the famous reference book Foyer Pleasures. One of them is paper-backed all have professional touch-up to blank margins NEAR VERY GOOD. unknown books
193119133ENew York: Paramount Pictures 1931. First Edition. Large folio with an elaborately decorated boards. Lavishly illustrated with terrific full color film posters celebrity portraits and other promotional material celebrating Paramount Picture’s 20th anniversary. Very good copy in colorful printed boards. An in-studio volume of publicity material announcing to exhibitors and theater owners the 1931 -1932 season of film production with information about the upcoming releases from Paramount Pictures including Indiscretion directed by Josef Von Sternberg starring Marlene Dietrich The Smiling Lieutenant directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by Rouben Mamoulian starring Frederck March and Miriam Hopkins and many more. With much additional information about Paramount’s team of directors producers and writers. Paramount Pictures hardcover books
WALTER-FILM000154No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Rudolph Valentino Agnes Ayres Ruth Miller George Waggner Adolph Menjou dir: George Melford Paramount. A legendary and iconic film the ultimate romantic melodrama. A free thinking British woman is abducted by an Arab sheik who has become infatuated with her when she visits the Sahara desert. He takes her to his desert tent castle and seduces the reluctant beauty. Only when she is kidnapped by desert bandits does she realize she has fallen in love with him and he is to her rescue! This film made Rudolph Valentino a star and the image of him as The Sheik is now iconic. He appears on this card in his most famous costumes with leading lady Agnes Ayres. Interestingly his future wife Natasha Rambova appears as an extra as do three sisters who would become stars -- Sally Blane Polly Ann Young and Loretta Young. Border art includes line art of ""The Sheik"" carrying his lady across the desert while being pursued by bandits. There is one single neat closed pinhole in each corner FINE. unknown books
1933WALTER-FILM001169William Faulkner source Vintage original pressbook "Press Sheet and AD-SALES Catalogue" UK. Pictorial wrappers 8 pp. 11 ½ x 9 ½" 30 x 24 cm. pages partly coming loose VERY GOOD.<br /><br />1933 pre-Code film based on William Faulkner's 1931 novel <i>Sanctuary</i>. An extremely rare film only shown at festivals on occasion since its release with only one known nitrate print in storage at UCLA. Along with <i>Baby Face </i>made the same year <i>The Story of Temple Drake</i> is one of the most notorious of the films from the pre-Code area so controversial that it was ordered never to be shown again after the Production Code Administration was instituted the following year.<br /><br />The controversy comes straight from Faulkner's source material wherein a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle is trapped in a hideout with a gang of vicious criminal bootleggers. The leader of the gang Trigger lusts after the woman and her subsequent rape is presented in a manner that was unheard of at the time. George Raft under contract to Paramount was assigned the part but found the part repulsive and went to battle with the studio in a suit that nearly cost him his career.<br /><br />This British pressbook has extensive illustrations of the notorious advertising and poster campaign which eventually made the film's release such a troubled one. A rare piece from a film that is legendary in the history of literary adaptation and film censorship. It is very interesting to note a few references to Faulkner in the text as he was not yet a well-known author much less in the UK. Paramount British paperback books
WALTER-FILM000176No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 17"" 35 x 43 cm. jumbo lobby card USA. Clara Bow Frederic March Rex Bell dir: Frank Tuttle; Paramount. This is the story of a girl who works at a soda fountain in San Diego. She is the favorite of all sailors who come to port. Each one is her favorite as well as they come in at separate times. Problems arise whenever they arrive at the same time. However Ruby Nolan really pines mainly for the one gob who will not give her the time of day -- it is her mission to peak his interest. Film was made in both talkie and silent versions. Bow was known to audiences for her irresistible personality and for her red hair and this fantastic image highlights just that! It also shows her with her many boyfriends including Frederic March with his arms around her and soon-to-be husband Rex Bell at lower right. One of the highlights experienced in the sound version only was Bow's singing of ""Believe It or Not I Lost My Man"" -- that would be hard to believe. Both the silent and talking versions of this title are extant. This is a museum quality piece VERY GOOD. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000032No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. W. C. Fields Martha Raye Dorothy Lamour Shirley Ross Bob Hope Lynne Overman Ben Blue dir: Mitchell Leisen; Paramount. One of the finest and best remembered of the 1930s musicals if for no other reason than the introduction by Ross and Hope his first feature role of the classic song ""Thanks for the Memory"" it won the Academy Award. Martha Raye who did her own stunts in a raucously entertaining number was ingeniously cast as W. C. Fields' daughter in his last film for Paramount. Everyone shone in their musical moments in a story which concerned a race between two ocean liners from which the new S.S. Gigantic had a big radio broadcast emitting you see the turbine engine worked on radio waves is the explanation!. Fields plays T. Frothingill Bellows brother to the owner of the ship who with his daughter Martha Martha Raye are sent to cause trouble on the rival ship. They end up on the S.S. Gigantic instead and comically impede the ship's chances of winning NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000485No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28"" 56 x 71 cm. half sheet poster style B USA. Burt Lancaster Lizabeth Scott Kirk Douglas Wendell Cory Kristine Miller George Rigaud dir: Byron Haskin; Paramount. Finely remembered and regarded film noir and nice testament to star Lizabeth Scott. When Frankie is sprung out of prison after 14 years he expects his bootlegging partner who has since made good to stick to their 50/50 agreement. Noll Turner has no intention of doing that even though torch singer femme fatale Kay does her best to intervene. Their first film together Douglas and Lancaster would form a company and make six more films. Lancaster appears on this poster with Liz Scott. This is by far the best poster for this film which we have ever seen. Paper-backed originally twice folded with very minor touch-ups ABOUT FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000981No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 17"" 35 x 42 cm. jumbo lobby card USA. Clara Bow Neil Hamilton Harrison Ford Lucille Powers Jack Raymond dir: Clarence G. Badger Paramount. Clara Bow had become the star prolific popular writer Elinor Glyn wished to write stories for by 1928. For this script she had expert assistance including that from John Farrow and Herman J. Mankiewicz. Bow plays gold digging chorus girl Gladys O'Brien who falls for James Gordon Neil Hamilton believe him to be a wealthy playboy. He is but an insurance agent. She ups his and her chances when she arranges an invitation to attend a swank party with a real playboy millionaire Turner Harrison Ford. Unfortunately this is amongst Bows numerous missing films though a few fragments have been found and appear in the show ""Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films."" In this card Bow is the ultimate flapper. Minor crease near top left corner. Wear along right side border. Creasing at two small tears repaired with archival tape at the bottom right edge and corner NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000500No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Alan Ladd Veronica Lake William Bendix Howard Da Silva dir: George Marshall; Paramount. One of the finest classic film noir titles and written by the master of the genre Raymond Chandler. The story involved a war vet who returns home to see his wife with another man. She is murdered and he is the prime suspect. The Blue Dahlia is a nightclub where much of the action takes place. Chandler initially had the returning vet Bendix as the murderer but the patriotic atmosphere of the time would not permit a war vet to be seen in that light so he had to rewrite the story and character. In this card are Alan Ladd Veronica Lake and Howard da Silva. There is a mended left edge tear and a few soil spots to the top blank white margin. There are two pinholes near the top left corner and two at the top right corner of the image NEAR FINE. unknown books
193520945EHollywood CA: Paramount Studios 1935. Original 1935 Studio Pass to Twentieth Century-Fox Studios for Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr. Blue cardstock 3 1/2†x 2 1/4†with 1935 in red. Studio passes were given to press and industry representatives allowing the bearer access to the studio’s lot and sets. It reads in full: “Non-Employee Identification Card Paramount Productions 5451 Marathon Street Hollywood California Name Jimmy Starr Herald-Express typed Expiration Date 4-30-35 typed Mar 26 1935 stamped Authorized by Studio Manager signed April stamped.†On the verso is a printed set of basic terms regarding the holder of the pass. About fine with the most minute trace of use. Jimmy Starr 1902 - 1990 is best known as a Hollywood columnist though he was also a writer and actor known for The Corpse Came C.O.D. 1947 A Night for Crime 1943 and Pink Pajamas 1929. Some of the March and April 1935 Paramount Studios films Mr. Starr may have enjoyed include such popular productions as Ruggles of Red Gap starring Charles Laughton Mary Boland Charlie Ruggles and Zasu Pitts winner of the Oscar for Best Picture Love in Bloom starring George Burns and Gracie Allen Mississippi starring Bing Crosby W.C. Fields and Joan Bennett Four Hours to Kill! starring Richard Barthelmess and Private Worlds with Claudette Colbert Charles Boyer and Joel McCrea. Paramount Studios unknown books
WALTER-FILM000048No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28"" 56 x 71 cm. half sheet poster style B. USA. John Howard Heather Angel H. B. Warner Reginald Denny E. E. Clive Leo G. Carroll. dir: James P. Hogan; Parmamount. Suspensful B-film in which Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but the house they are to live in has hidden treasures and so the wedding is postponed. Atmospheric sets added to the suspense of this entry into the long line of films featuring this detective. Paper-backed originally twice folded with minor wear now displays beautifully NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM004127Softcover/Paperback. Fine. Book Vintage original 15 x 12"" 38 x 30 cm. pressbook USA. Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten dir: William Dieterle; Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. This is one of a handful of screenplays written by Ayn Rand in the 1940s. THE FOUNTAINHEAD was published in 1943 and it was a while before it took off and became a bestseller. This is a very scarce book. Pictorial wrappers stapled folio there is a very slight separation at bottom of spine minor creasing but NEAR FINE or better. paperback books
WALTER-FILM000144No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Clara Bow Jean Arthur James Hall Edna May Oliver Charles Sellon Jean Harlow dir: A. Edward Sutherland; Paramount. A great glimpse into life of the late-1920s this early talkie left behind the typical Bow character and presented her in a subdued role. It is the story of two sisters who work as salesgirls in a department store. The younger sister is played by Jean Arthur in a very early lead role she the unsympathetic character who stabs her sister in the back. Both girls are in love with the same store clerk. Clara again appeared with James Hall as her leading man and he is with her in this fantastically colored card. A few pinholes FINE. unknown books
1982405848New York: Paramount Pictures Corporation 1982. In fine condition save a few small stains on folder. Press kit distributed by the Publicity Department of Paramount: Printed folder containing fourteen 8x10 inch black-and-white stills from the film each with printed caption on Paramount letterhead folded around image; and "Handbook of Production Information" 4to 29 pages stapled in printed wrappers. An original publicity pack for the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte hit film from 1982 directed by Walter Hill. Executive producer D. Constantime Conte produced by Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver written by Roger Spottiswoode and Walter Hill & Larry Gross and Steven E de Souza.The text handbook details the production credits story cast composer editors production designer cinematographer writers director. and producers. '48 Hours' is often credit as being the first of the "buddy cop" genre and was nominated and won several critical awards. This was Eddie Murphy's film debut and therefore these are among the earliest film stills to feature the actor. <br/><br/> Paramount Pictures Corporation unknown books
WALTER-FILM000453No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28"" 55 x 70 cm. half sheet poster USA. Barbara Stanwyck Van Heflin Kirk Douglas Lizabeth Scott Judith Anderson Darryl Hickman Janis Wilson dir: Lewis Milestone; Paramount. Psychological noir about a domineering woman and her alcoholic husband -- her childhood friend and the only witness to her murdering of her rich aunt when they were adolescents. Atmospheric cinematography by Victor Milner and music score by Miklós Rózsa were highlights. John Patrick was nominated for an Academy Award for original story. This poster is rolled and has some signs of creasing notably at the right side near the blank margin. Poster has quite a bit of soiling to the background overall VERY GOOD-FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000006No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 17"" 35 x 43 cm. jumbo lobby card USA. Charles ""Buddy"" Rogers Kathryn Crawford Josephine Dunn Carole Lombard dir: Victor Schertzinger; Paramount. Early musical vehicle for charismatic Buddy Rogers which highlighted his abilities as a singer and musician. He plays a songwriter who has been sheltered by his family and is about to come into a large inheritance. His uncle sends him to the city to learn about the ways of the world which includes the hiring of three chorus girls to oversee his education. Of course several other girls want to help out as well and thus the title. It was all presented in the very ""naughty"" atmosphere of pre-Code Hollywood. Here is buddy with two of his tutors Kathryn Crawford and Josephine Dunn. Edge wear and chips to border tack holes in four corners 1"" 3 cm. tear into title treatment VERY GOOD. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000536No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 9 x 7"" 24 x 18 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print photo USA. Gloria Swanson William Holden Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Jack Webb Cecil B. DeMille Hedda Hopper Anna Q. Nilsson H. B Warner Buster Keaton dir: Billy Wilder Paramount. A ""Hollywood"" story which rings true to this day about how the film industry uses and abuses people and yet from which beautiful and interesting art flourishes. This rare behind-the-scenes still shows Billy Wilder with Erich von Stroheim following an industry screening of the film at a Paramount screening room. The woman is not identified. There is an original paper blurb attached to the verso which talks about Billy Wilder being in Paris as well as an ink stamp from the Paramount office in France. Minor handling ABOUT FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM004271No binding. Very Good. Photo Los Angeles: Paramount 1925 Vintage original 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. linen-backed keybook photo USA. Raoul Walsh with three Asian American cast members for this lost film adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's play of the same name. unknown books
WALTER-FILM004357No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Tokyo: Paramount Pictures 1973. Vintage original 28 5/8 x 20 1/4"" 73 x 51 cm. B2 poster Japan. Diana Ross Billy Dee Williams Richard Pryor dir: Sidney J. Furie; Paramount. An excellent portrait of Diana Ross in her first starring role in a feature movie. Unfolded with some scattered light creases JUST ABOUT FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000763No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 7 x 9 "" 17 x 23 cm. black-and-white single weight semi-glossy print still photo Spain. A very unusual exterior display for the film during its first release in Spain during the Spring of 1961. In Spanish-speaking countries the film was titled Psicosis. Hitchcock was so popular in these countries by 1960 that his image would greatly enhance the selling of a film. The famous cut out of Hitchcock pointing to his watch was installed inside and outside all theatres showing the film indicating that no patrons would be allowed into the theatre once the film had started. Two different posters and five lobby cards for the film are displayed. There is a crease near the top left corner and a tiny professionally repaired tear along the bottom white margin ABOUT FINE. -moviephoto -psycho -hitchcock unknown books
WALTER-FILM000759No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. Clive Brook H. Reeves-Smith Betty Lawford Charles Hay Phillips Holmes Donald Crisp dir: Basil Dean; Paramount. The very first Sherlock Holmes film to be produced with sound and in which the immortal line ""Elementary my dear Watson"" was uttered on-screen though it does not appear in the writings of Arthur Canon Doyle. Made at the Paramount Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York and employing actors of the theatre this early Holmes effort is an antique curiosity today full of gadgets and gizmos which have little to do with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story also updated the setting to the present day. Clive Brook was known for his understated interpretation of the main character and he featured at right along with H. Reeves Smith as Dr. Watson and Betty Lawford as Marry Watson. Unfortunately the sound disks to this film are presently lost. Still 1221-36 includes the Paramount logo and title information along the bottom blank white margin. Actor's names written in pencil on verso. Right blank white margin edge a bit irregularly trimmed for publication NEAR FINE. unknown books
