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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-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
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
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-FILM000253No binding. Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27"" 104 x 69 cm. one sheet poster USA. Arlene Dahl Fernando Lamas dir: Edward Ludwig; Paramount. Another great example of 3-D coming-out-of-the-screen graphics. Folded there are some scattered tears and pinholes creasing in upper right corner VERY GOOD-. unknown 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
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
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-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-FILM000716No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 10 x 7"" 25 x 18 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. Joel McCrea Veronica Lake Robert Warwick William Demarest Franklin Pangborn dir: Preston Sturges; Paramount. The classic Preston Sturges tale of a spoiled movie director with a social conscience who dons the clothes of a tramp and joins the poverty stricken in order to make a movie about the troubles of the downtrodden. Veronica Lake who plays simply The Girl joins Joel McCrea on his journey as film director John L. Sullivan looks on both characters donning the clothing of hobos as in still labeled 1908-50. Left and right blank white margins appear to be slightly trimmed for publication. Crease at bottom right corner ABOUT FINE. -movieposter -prestonsturges -sullivanstravels -veronicalake -joelmccrea 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-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
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-FILM000243No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 11"" 35 x 28 cm. lobby card no. 2 USA. James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes; dir: Alfred Hitchcock; Paramount. Story of a San Francisco detective who suffers from vertigo and in investigating a friend's wife becomes obsessed with her. His vulnerable trait is well-known by those who have hired him and they have quite an agenda. The film is visually stunning with Hitchcock painstakingly utilizing the then-newly developed technical advancements in use of color creating a hallucinatory and nightmarish mood Vista Vision and stereo. Lobby card no. 2 for the 1963 re-release features the Golden Gate Bridge portraits of Hitchcock Stewart and Novak and the scenes in the cemetery where Stewart discovers an important clue. Since the original 1958 cards are all printed in only two colors they lack the phantasmagoric vivid colors of the film which are much more properly reflected in the 1963 lobbies such as this one. There are single and double light pin holes at top blank white margin border right and left corners and center and same at bottom blank white margin border NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000696No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Bebe Daniels Ricardo Cortez Wallace Beery Arthur Edward Carewe dir: William K. Howard Paramount. The ever-versatile Bebe Daniels in a disaster epic which takes place in Martinique ca. 1902 during a volcanic eruption. The romantic element concerned an interracial relationship taboo at the time which of course turned out not to be so when in the last reel it is discovered that the male lover is really white. The film was believed lost but a damaged print does survive. Bebe Daniels Arthur Edward Carewe and Wallace Berry are in the center image. The title and credits are caught up in the enveloping eruption of the volcano in this highly stylistic card of superb 1920s lobby card art. Minor stain at bottom left corner FINE. -movieposter -volcano -bebedaniels -wallacebeery -silentmovie unknown books
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
