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1951ref. 151232Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film three showing crew members on the set including novelist Rumer Godden cinematographer Satyajit Ray producer Kenneth McEldowney and director Jean Renoir. One with a partially faded provenance stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Godden's 1946 novel. Renoir's first feature length film in color following an adolescent girl coming of age in British colonial India. Shot on location in West Bengal India. Three photographs 8 x 10 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1951ref. 142076Beverly Hills CA: Oriental International Pictures / United Artists 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film showing Renoir giving directions to an actor while members of the crew look on. Based on the 1946 novel by Rumer Godden who adapted it for the screen with Renoir. The film's crew included Satyajit Ray who worked as an assistant director on the film after meeting Renoir. Ray's longtime cinematographer Subrata Mitra also worked on the film and the two would come to international attention four years later with "Pather Panchali." Set and shot on location in India. 10 x 8 inches. Slight wear around the edges else Near Fine. BFI 619. Criterion Collection 276. Ebert III. Oriental International Pictures / United Artists unknown books
1951ref. 149591Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Vintage studio still photograph of director Jean Renoir and screenwriter Rumer Godden on the set of the 1951 film. Based on Godden's 1946 novel. Renoir's first feature length film in color following an adolescent girl coming of age in British colonial India. Shot on location in West Bengal India. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Ebert III. BFI 619. Criterion Collection 276. United Artists unknown books
1951ref. 148360N.p.: N.p. 1951. Three vintage studio still photographs with narrow margins from the 1951 film. All with "Archives Maurice Bessy" labels two with provenance stampa of film historian "Maurice Bessy" and one with Italian mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1946 novel by Rumer Godden who adapted it for the screen with Renoir. The film's crew included Satyajit Ray who worked as an assistant director on the film after meeting Renoir. Ray's longtime cinematographer Subrata Mitra also worked on the film and the two would come to international attention four years later with "Pather Panchali." "The River" an international co-production distributed by United Artists concerns three young girls two British one Indian in Bengal who become infatuated with an ex-soldier who comes into their lives. Set and shot on location in India. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 619. Criterion Collection 276. Ebert III. N.p. unknown books
1935ref. 149372Marseille: Les Films Marcel Pagnol 1935. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1935 film showing director Jean Renoir and actors Charles Blavette and Celia Montalvan on location during filming of the 1935 film. With the stamps of photographer Roger Corbeau and Cinemonde to the verso. Renoir's seventh sound film and an early example of the director's influence on both the French Left Bank and Italian neorealist movements. Renoir cast primarily non-professional actors and shot on location to craft the story of a group of immigrants working in a small town in Provence. Set and shot on location in the south of France. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine lightly and evenly toned. Les Films Marcel Pagnol unknown books
1959ref. 142159France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine with each sheet containing manuscript ink annotations with the name of the production credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet and with three dated January 26 1959 and one dated April 4 1959. Accompanying the photographs are 35 negatives for photographs in the archive and 1 negative for a photograph that was not struck and mounted. All the photographs featuring cast and crew working on the set and 16 feature images of Renoir on the set. Also included are two vintage borderless press photographs depicting scenes for the film. Each with the stamp of "Telerama" on the verso along with manuscript annotations identifying the film and for layout. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. Proof photographs and negatives roughly 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Proof sheets 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Card stock. About Near Fine with some wear at the corners. Press photographs 7.25 x 5 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the upper corner of one photograph else Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir unknown books
1947ref. 159822Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1947. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean Renoir talking with actors Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan on the set of the 1947 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a provenance stamp and the stamp of RKO photographer John Miehls. Renoir's last Hollywood film one of his most impressionistic and artistic efforts. A coast guard officer with post-traumatic stress disorder becomes involved with the beautiful wife of a blind painter. Shot on location in Malibu and Sequit Point California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1936ref. 145854Paris: Films Albatros 1936. Vintage oversize double weight French studio still photograph from the 1936 film. Notations listing other French films in manuscript ink on verso and with a negative-printed credit for photographer Roger Forster at the bottom left corner of the recto. Winner of 1936's Louis Delluc Prize the first year the prize was awarded Renoir's film is based on a Maxim Gorky play depicting life in a flophouse centering on a bankrupted Baron Louis Jouvet a thief Jean Gabin his two lovers and the landlord. Akira Kurosawa also adapted Gorky's play in 1957 as . Renoir's adaptation not nearly as bleak as Gorky's play maintains a warm humanity but in the case of Kurosawa the setting is changed to Edo period Japan and the story remains faithfully grim. Set in Russia shot on location in France. 9 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus light edgewear creases and pinholes at corners. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Criterion Collection 239. Films Albatros unknown books
1956ref. 143992Paris: Franco London Film S.A. 1956. Original program for the 1956 English language release of the 1955 French-Italian film. Deluxe program in English text illustrated throughout in black-and-white stills from the film detailing the film synopsis. Also includes 8 full-color borderless film stills akin to lobby cards a brief filmography of director Renoir and transcript of an interview between Renoir and Georges Van Parys from January 1 1955 and sheet music for the theme song "Complainte de la butte." Housed in a Franco London Film folder with tipped-in plate reproducing Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Le Moulin de la Galette" and film title in red on the front wrapper. Based on an idea by Andre-Paul Antoine his second to last film credit before "La dulce enemiga" 1957. Set in 1890s Paris Henri Danglard Gabin is the owner of a cafe where his mistress Lola Felix performs as a belly dancer. With the cafe nearly bankrupt Henri inspired by an old-fashioned cancan in Montmartre decides to add a new dancer to revive his business. Cue a laundress named Nini Arnoul who soon finds fame at the Moulin Rouge. François Truffaut's review in "Arts" magazine May 1955 was highly supportive even though other critics like Bernard Chardere criticised the music the sets even the final cancan scene. Regardless the film was awarded the Grand Prix de l'Academie du Cinéma 1956. Program 9 x 12.5 inches saddle-stapled and string-bound 4 leaves in slightly larger folder. 8 film stills 9 x 12 inches. Interview slightly smaller than stills single leaf printed on both sides and sheet music slightly larger dated 1954 single leaf folded twice 3 sides printed. Very Good plus overall with a few small scattered creases and brief dampstains to the folder. Criterion Collection. Roger Ebert Great Movies IV. Franco London Film S.A. unknown books
1947ref. 172385Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1947. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. Based on the 1945 novel "None So Blind" by Mitchell Wilson. A Coast Guard officer develops feelings for a married woman despite the presence of her blind husband. Shot on location in Malibu CA. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a crease down the left side of the photos. One photo with a small tear at the right edge. One photograph with a loss at the top right corner. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 144576France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF 1959. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and members of the crew on the set of the 1959 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. 11 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] unknown books
1956ref. 144496Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and Ingrid Bergman on the set of the 1956 French film. Agency stamps on the verso. A romantic-comedy set in 1890 Paris starring Ingrid Bergman as Elena Sokorowskaa Polish princess who has a reputation for bringing good luck to her lovers. While scheduled to be married to a wealthy family friend with plans to bring new money to the family's dwindling fortune she meets Count de Chevincourt Mel Ferrer the aide to General Rollan Jean Marais. Both men are taken by her charm and find themselves in a romantic knot with repercussions for all of France. Shot on location in and around Paris. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine with single bottom margin. 244 Criterion Collection. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Warner Brothers unknown books
1956ref. 150324N.p.: N.p. 1956. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actress Ingrid Bergman filing her nails on the set of the 1956 film. With the stamps of Match magazine Photo Garofalo and Gamma picture agency on the verso. In turn-of-the-century France a young Polish princess agrees to marry a wealthy older man to save her family from the poorhouse but finds herself falling in love with a handsome stranger despite her engagement. The third film in director Jean Renoir's romance trilogy preceded by "The Golden Coach" 1953 and "French Cancan" 1955. Set and shot on location in France. 9 x 11.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 151415N.p.: Franco-London Film 1956. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Jean Renoir listening while composer Joseph Kosma plays the organ on the set of the 1956 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso along with a stamp specific to the film's French release. In turn-of-the-century France a young Polish princess agrees to marry a wealthy older man to save her family from the poorhouse but finds herself falling in love with a handsome stranger despite her engagement. The third film in director Jean Renoir's romance trilogy preceded by "The Golden Coach" 1953 and "French Cancan" 1955. Set and shot on location in France. 7 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. Franco-London Film unknown books
1955ref. 161316N.p.: N.p. 1955. Three vintage reference photographs of director Jean Renoir on the set of the 1955 film two showing Renoir with actress Françoise Arnoul and one showing Renoir examining the ground while surrounded by cast members. All three photographs with Amsterdam distributor stamps on the versos. A dramatization of the opening of the famed Moulin Rouge nightclub about a theatre producer who decides to revive the cancan dance after seeing a beautiful young woman dancing at an old-fashioned Montmartre dance hall. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn one with faint ink residue on the top portion of the recto. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 151080N.p.: N.p. 1962. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film including one of Jean Renoir sitting amongst the cast on the set of the film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil provenance stamp and label of film historian "Maurice Bessy" and "Le Caporal Epingle" stamp all on verso. Two photos shown please inquire to see others. Based on the 1947 novel by Jacques Perret. A comedic account of a French aristocrat's repeated attempts to escape from a German POW camp during WWII. A companion piece to Renoir's earlier WWI set masterpiece "Le Grande Illusion" 1937. Shot on location in Paris France and Vienna Austria. 9.5 x 7 inches. Some light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 140952France: Les Films du Cyclope / Omnia Films 1962. Vintage photograph from the 1962 film showing Jean Renoir directing star Jean-Pierre Cassel and some supporting actors during an outdoor shot with the boom operator in the background. Manuscript pencil notation on the verso identifying the subjects and film. Based on Jacques Perret's 1947 novel a comedic account of a French aristocrat's repeated attempts to escape from a German POW camp during WWII and a companion piece to Renoir's earlier WWI set masterpiece "Le Grande Illusion" 1937. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Light creasing to the borders Near Fine. Les Films du Cyclope / Omnia Films unknown books
1931ref. 148495N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and two overlapping National Film Archive stamps on the verso. A key French film noir antecedent based on the 1929 novel by Georges de La Fouchardiere and the 1930 play by Andre Mouezy-Eon. An aspiring painter trapped in an abusive marriage falls in love with a prostitute who scams him out of the money for his paintings with the help of her pimp. The second sound film by Jean Renoir. Remade in 1945 as Scarlet Street directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 818. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 144442Paris: Cinedis 1956. Original borderless single weight still photograph from the 1956 French-Italian film. Bergman and Marais enjoy a moment sharply dressed. Numerical notation in manuscript pencil and a rubber-stamp crediting starring actors director and French film title on the verso. One of director Renoir's final films a turn of the century romantic comedy about Polish princess Elena Bergman and various men of military rank in pre-WWI Paris. Shot on location throughout France. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and brief creases at the corners and a faint dampstain. Criterion Collection 244. Godard Histoire du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Cinedis unknown books
1938ref. 151968Paris: Paris Film 1938. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1938 film showing actors Jean Gabin and Julien Carette. Based on the 1890 social realist novel by Emile Zola. Director Jean Renoir's film remains true to the proletarian source material while grafting on elements of film noir and his own humanist philosophy. One of the director's biggest commercial successes with a powerful lead performance by Jean Gabin. Remade in the US by Fritz Lang in 1954 as "Human Desire." 15.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with creasing to far bottom corners with a small bruise on right side small crease to top right and a very small closed tear in top margin. Criterion Collection 324. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Paris Film unknown books
1937ref. 154246New York: Filmarte 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing L-R Jean Gabin Gaston Modot Pierre Fresnay Julien Carette Jean Daste and Marcel Dalio. Provenance stamp and library stamps to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown books
1938ref. 151432New York: Filmarte 1938. Vintage program for the US premiere of the 1937 French film which opened at the Filmarte Theatre in New York on September 12 1938. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. One leaf bi-fold. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown books
1957ref. 144612Paris: N.p. 1957. Two original single weight black-and-white press photographs from an anniversary showing of the 1937 French film circa 1957. Director Renoir is seen with actress Mylene Demongeot and an image of a neighboring Champs-Elysees drugstore. Renoir's film about soldiers during WWI is widely regarded as a masterpiece and one of Orson Welles' favorite films. 5 x 7 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 145128France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean Renoir and actor Jean-Louis Barrault on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamp of photographer Albert Decamps on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] unknown books
1933ref. 150898N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph of Andre Dignimont and Georges Pomies from the 1933 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and provenance stamp of film historian "Maurice Bessy"on verso Bessy was a noted cinephile best known for his association with Orson Welles. One of Jean Renoir's more obscure but equally charming early sound films from 1933 wherein hard-working grocer Francois Chotard Fernand Charpin marries his daughter Jeanne Loury off to the seemingly lazy writer Julien Collient Georges Pomies and has a change of heart when Julien receives a prestigious literary award. 9 x 7 inches. Evenly faded else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
