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1950réf. 161662New York: Visual Art Publications 1950. Limited Edition noted as "Enlarged Edition" on the front wrapper. INSCRIBED by Paul Reubens-better known as Pee-wee Herman-on the title page: "To Herb / on Christmas 1990 / Love Paul Reubens." A instructional volume regarding lighting and composition of pin-up photography. Very Good plus in spiral-bound wrappers with page 30 removed from the binding and altered with a small clipping from the page laid in. Visual Art Publications unknown books
1947réf. 147969N.p.: N.p. 1947. Three-sheets of First Series Hollywood Official Stamps of the Stars and Studios postage stamps featuring both photographs and caricatures of celebrities such as Roy Rogers Clark Gable the Marx Brothers Frank Sinatra Bela Lugosi John Huston and many others. 4 x 7.5 inches. One sheet Near Fine two sheets Very Good plus with light toning and soil. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 171668Los Angeles: Paul Kohner 1960. Vintage press kit produced by Paul Kohner Agency advertising his clients to the American motion picture industry. Features a number of prominent actors including Richard Attenborough Richard Attenborough Romy Schneider Ingrid Thulin Fernandel and others. 10 x 12 inches folded twice and measuring 28 x 12 inches unfolded. Very Good plus. Paul Kohner unknown books
1976réf. 170429Los 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. 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. 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. An insightful look into the latter third of the New Hollywood Cinema era and the commencement of the "summer blockbuster" era. 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 books
1936réf. 157965N.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. 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. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1930réf. 155000Hollywood: 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. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Fox Movietone Studio unknown books
1980réf. 154257Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / United Artists 1980. Vintage large format color negative produced circa 1981 showing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production logo with the studio's longtime motto "Ars Gratia Artis" replaced by the joint studio name "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. There have been eight different lions used for the MGM logo since its creation by designer Howard Dietz in 1924 beginning with Slats a lion born at the Dublin Zoo in 1919. United Artists was sold to Transamerica Corporation in 1967 who would sell the studio to Kirk Kerkorian the then-current owner of MGM in 1981. The MGM / UA mascot variant does not appear to have been widely used. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / United Artists unknown books
1915réf. 146857Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball held February 13 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors directors producers and others and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce with only two copies in OCLC. The Photoplayer's Club was a short-lived social club for both men and women that had members from throughout the motion picture industry including "actors directors camera men technical men owners manufacturers and managers" and sought the provide a space where they could meet "in 'clubby' equality" and "may talk shop may eat drink and make merry." As such the program provides a broad survey of both the major and minor players in the earliest days of the film industry as it established itself in Hollywood with each photograph identified with a caption and most actors and directors grouped with the studios or film production companies they were associated with. 12 x 9 inches in brown titled wrappers. About Very Good with loss and separation to the spine light chipping and few short closed tears with a brief dampstain to the lower corner of the page block. Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles unknown books
réf. 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
réf. 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. unknown books
1960réf. 3108Hollywood: np 1960. First edition. nb. Very Good. An extensive archive of casting and production material from the files of Fred Roos casting director and Academy Award-winning producer spanning more than six decades of American filmmaking 1960s to 2023. Few people shaped New Hollywood as directly as Fred Roos. As a casting director and later as Francis Ford Coppola's longtime producing partner he helped identify the actors who would define American cinema from the late 1960s onward. His producing credits include The Conversation and Apocalypse Now and he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Godfather Part II. This archive drawn from his working papers comprises over 4750 pages and roughly 1450 discrete objects in six banker boxes. We know of no more complete collection of his casting files. Major files cover The Godfather Trilogy American Graffiti Apocalypse Now and Raiders of the Lost Ark alongside Five Easy Pieces Zabriskie Point Harold and Maude and television work including The Andy Griffith Show and That Girl. The archive's great strength is how much it preserves of what never happened. A January 1971 page of Godfather casting notes written less than two months before filming lists Jack Nicholson Robert De Niro Martin Sheen and James Caan for Michael; Gene Hackman and Bruce Dern for Tom Hagen; and Anne Bancroft for Mama Corleone. A 1968 list for the minor role of "Boy" in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point includes Harrison Ford Al Pacino Sam Elliott Peter Fonda and Nicholson. An early Harold and Maude list includes Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner. The Godfather Part II files make up about a quarter of the archive. They go well beyond casting to include production memoranda logistical planning and Roos's notes to Coppola on story structure character motivation and narrative coherence. Among the most remarkable material in these files is Roos's running commentary on the editing of The Godfather Part II. It opens with several pages headed "Fred Roos - Notes - on 'GF II' first cut July 13 '74." The notes are numbered and direct: "I don't quite believe that the young Vito escapes from Don Francesco's the way it is now cut"; "I worry that the audience will not clearly see that there are dead bodies throats cut in the stream after the machine-gunning." From there ten further pages of notes follow the film through successive screenings between July 27 and October 4 1974 as it was recut ahead of its December 1974 release. Most are headed with the date and place of a screening "Screening @ FFC Hs - Aug. 22 '74 - Run time 3:45 'sh" and many are addressed directly to Coppola and the film's editors. Read in order they show the film's central problems being worked out one cut at a time. Some problems run through all of it. In July Roos asks for the first shot of Fanucci to be lengthened "We must clearly get a fix on his face"; in September he is still asking. The intercutting of the Vito and Michael stories which became the film's defining structure is still being tested: an August 1 page is headed "New linear structure Old-New" and a July 30 note worries that audiences will take the Sicilian killings for flashbacks. Fredo's betrayal is not yet landing either: "I agree with people at screening who don't know what Fredo had done & why Michael says 'you've broken my heart' - Important that it be very clear that it was that Fredo had set up Michael for machine gunning." By October 4 the instruction is to "Examine 'Broke my Heart' cutting - for most wrenchingly effective moment - FFC try cutting it." Another note is simply: "I want to see Neri kill Fredo." In the finished film Fredo is killed by Al Neri. Other notes propose an intermission "after shootout & before Havana" ask for "Xmas music B. Crosby" under a scene and record preview audiences' reactions to the young Vito sequences. Running through it all are Roos's brief handwritten first impressions of actors often a few words jotted as a performer first came into view. Harrison Ford in 1968: "very interesting - blond - strong handsome face." Julia Roberts in The Godfather Part III files: "very sexy - red hair - sister of Eric Roberts." A 1989 letter to Coppola tracks Roberts's schedule on a film then titled 3000 released the following year as Pretty Woman. Notes from 2017 for Fairyland evaluate a young Sabrina Carpenter. Similar notes appear on George Clooney Reese Witherspoon Keanu Reeves Jim Carrey Natalie Portman and Jennifer Lawrence and on many other stars and supporting actors. Just as many of the names on these lists never broke through or had only brief careers. Their presence is part of the record showing the full field of actors in contention for a part before anyone knew which of them would last. Casting lists sit alongside script notes budgets schedules and correspondence annotated and reused across projects. Together they form a primary-source record of how films were actually assembled from the late studio era through New Hollywood and into the contemporary industry. The archive comprises over 4750 pages and approximately 1450 discrete objects preserved in six banker boxes. Please click on pdf below images for more information. Full description available upon request. np unknown books
1983réf. 379647No Place: ZTT 1983. Unbound. Fine. Original 12" 45 rpm vinyl record. Fine in fine black cardboard sleeve. One of three variants of the single release in October 1983 featuring "Relax" which eventually rose to number 6 and earned the band a Grammy for best new artist. ZTT unknown books
1950réf. 374338Hollywood: Bernard of Hollywood 1950. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Spiral bound cardboard wrappers. 126pp. Creasing rubbing and some edgewear else very good plus. Includes photographs of actress Jane Greer Joyce Holden and Marilyn Monroe a few years after beginning to use her stage name and six years before legally changing it. Bernard of Hollywood unknown books
1950réf. 46367Hollywood CA 1950. Very Good . Hollywood CA: s.i. ca. 1950s. Glossy silver gelatin photograph with typed paragraph to verso. Curled at edges and bumped at corners with minor surface marks but relatively clean and clear. A Very Good or better example. The happy ladies are jumping on an early patented version of the pogo stick notably without handles. Based on the description typed on the verso the pogo riders are Catherine Hughes and Dorothea Kent both Universal Studios actresses in Hollywood. Hughes was known for starring in early Westerns including two Gene Autry films. Kent was less well-known but held roles in "Pin Up Girl" "Some Blondes are Dangerous" and "Million Dollar Legs. unknown books
réf. 06014Various Places: 1930-2000. A Vivid Gallery of Hollywood History From Silent-Era Pioneers to Golden Age Stars HOLLYWOOD ICONS. A Collection of Twenty-Eight Original Signed and Inscribed Photographs. Various places various dates ca. 1930s-1970s. Twenty-eight black-and-white photographs sizes ranging from 5 x 7 in. to 10 x 8 in. each boldly signed or inscribed by leading actors actresses directors producers and musicians of Hollywood's Golden Age and beyond. All items in near-fine or better condition many with personalized inscriptions. A remarkable assembly of signed portraits representing the glamour and breadth of twentieth-century cinema and stage including Academy Award winners legendary directors pioneering producers and iconic performers. Together these images form a vivid gallery of Hollywood history: from silent-era pioneers Anna May Wong Raoul Walsh Fay Wray to Golden Age stars Tyrone Power Joan Fontaine Olivia de Havilland Janet Gaynor Rosalind Russell and from influential directors and producers John Ford William Wyler King Vidor Billy Wilder Otto Preminger Hal Wallis Joe Pasternak to cross-disciplinary figures such as Leonard Bernstein. The inscriptions many personalized add a layer of provenance and human connection to these iconic names. The Photographs: Constance Bennett - Signed 10 x 8 in. photograph. Joan Bennett - Signed 9½ x 8 in. photograph. Leonard Bernstein - Signed 10 x 8 in. portrait. Madeleine Carroll - Signed 7 x 5 in. photograph. Joan Fontaine - Signed 10 x 8 in. portrait. John Ford - Signed 9 x 8 in. photograph. Janet Gaynor - Inscribed 7 x 10 in. photograph dated 1937. Helen Hayes - Signed 10 x 8 in. portrait. Jennifer Jones - Signed 10 x 8 in. photograph. Elia Kazan - Signed 10 x 8 in. photograph. Herbert Marshall - Inscribed 10 x 8 in. photograph dated 1938. Mike Nichols - Signed 9 x 7 in. photograph. Olivia de Havilland - Signed 10 x 8 in. portrait dated August 1971. Joe Pasternak - Inscribed 9½ x 7 in. photograph. Tyrone Power - Signed 10 x 8 in. portrait. Otto Preminger - Signed 10 x 7 in. photograph dated 1972. Dolores del Río - Signed 10 x 8 in. photograph. Rosalind Russell - Signed 10 x 8 in. portrait. Budd Schulberg - Inscribed 10 x 8 in. photograph. Lupe Vélez - Signed 9½ x 7 in. photograph. Hal B. Wallis - Inscribed 10 x 8 in. portrait. Raoul Walsh - Inscribed 10 x 8 in. photograph. Billy Wilder - Signed 9¾ x 7¾ in. photograph. Anna May Wong - Inscribed 10 x 8 in. portrait with Chinese characters dated 1932. Fay Wray - Signed 7 x 5 in. photograph. William Wyler - Inscribed 10 x 8 in. photograph. King Vidor - Signed 10 x 8 in. photograph dated 1972. Loretta Young - Inscribed 9½ x 7¾ in. photograph. Various Places: , 1930-2000 unknown books
réf. 2242798 3/8" x 6 1/2"; very good fresh; ca. 1940. Photograph is by Wallace-Zorn Photos with their imprint on the back of the folder. Slapsy Maxie's Hollywood "Laff Spot of California" books
1960réf. List3205New 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 books
1950réf. 2738861950. unbound. All the pages measure 3.75 x 4.75 inches and are signed by various actors and actresses of the Golden and Silver ages of Cinema including: Jackie Coogan 1914 - 1984 best remembered in Charlie Chaplin's classic film "The Kid" 1921 and for his television role as Uncle Fester in "The Addams Family"; Sabu 1924 - 1963 the first Indian actor to achieve great success in Hollywood -- he died at the age of 39; James Mason 1909 - 1984 an English actor who made the transition to American films and became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 1909 - 2000 iconic American actor and highly decorated naval officer during World War II; and Robert Donat 1905 - 1958 English actor best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" 1935 and "Goodbye Mr. Chips" 1939 the latter earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor. All items are boldly signed and in near fine condition. unknown books
1936réf. 41091NY: Macfadden 1936. Reprint. 12mo pp. 139. Illustrated with photographs. Orange paper over boards stamped in black. Pencil drawings on rear pastedown corner torn out of rear flyleaf tear at top of one leaf cover somewhat scuffed and soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Beauty advice. The author was a columnist for Photoplay Magazine and had a radio program as well as a practice working with Hollywood actresses. Interesting contrast with contemporary trainers! Macfadden unknown books
2002réf. 107274NY:: 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 . Pocket Books, hardcover books
1954réf. 68580New York: The Viking Press 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 277pp. Octavo 22 cm Publisher's red topstain. Illustrated endpapers. Spine rolled. 2 and 1/2" light scratch to the front board. Previous owner's name and brief numerical notation along the top edge of the front endpaper. In the dust jacket illustrated by George Schreiber with very periodic shallow closed tears and chips to the edges and a light moisture stain to the reverse along the bottom edge 3" wide x 1/2" deep. Despite these flaws the jacket is actually quite attractive. A memoir revealing the antics of Japanese-American art critic poet and anarchist Sadakichi Hartmann "the Gray Chrysanthemum" and the Bundy Drive Group John Barrymore W. C. Fields and John Decker. The Viking Press hardcover books
réf. 015404NY: Robbins. Near Fine. N.D. First Edition. Hardcover. mid 1930s many stills from the films near fine.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 64 pp . Robbins hardcover books
1962réf. 31872Hollywood CA: Frederick's of Hollywood 1962. Very Good. Hollywood CA: Frederick's of Hollywood 1962. First Edition. Quarto 27.5cm.; publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 47pp.; illus. throughout many full-color. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers else Very Good and sound. Rear wrapper postally used to a Mrs. Betty Place of Worcester Mass. Lavish Mad Men-era fashion and lingerie catalog "with over 300 fashion finds just for you! Frederick's of Hollywood unknown books
1950réf. 27155Los Angeles: Evergreen / Bernard of Hollywood Publishing. Near Fine. c.1999 1950. First Edition Thus. Softcover. tiny bump to bottom right corner of front cover otherwise virtually as-new. Trade PB B&W photographs A new trilingual edition text in English French and German of a "how-to" book on pin-up photography by the guy who virtually invented the technique originally published by him under his own imprint in 1950 under the title "Pin-Ups: A Step Beyond." The rear cover photo depicts a relaxed and bemused Robert Mitchum perusing a copy of the original publication. Bruno Bernard 1912-1987 was a German-born emigre who only took up photography shortly after arriving in Los Angeles fleeing Nazi Germany in 1937. Although he had no formal training in photography he gained a reputation during the 1940s for his "posed candid" style of photographing beautiful actresses including a young Marilyin Monroe and eventually started billing himself as Bernard of Hollywood. NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. . Evergreen / Bernard of Hollywood Publishing paperback books
1950réf. WALTER-FILM005325Set of eight 8 vintage original 7 1/4 x 9″ 23 x 18 cm. black-and-white print still photos JUST ABOUT FINE. A set of portraits of Marlon Brando. Stamps and date stamps on the back of a couple indicate that this photo shoot was used for Hear Hollywood magazine. Two photos show him by his bongo drum which in a 1955 Person to Person broadcast on CBS he was also shown playing. Hear Hollywood books
