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1928rif. WALTER-FILM007800Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1928. Set of 22 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photos one with a marginal chip. Sixteen have mimeographed text on verso some have old photo agency stickers. Two have writing in margins. Overall near fine. A remarkably substantial group of photos from this film which came near the end of Erich von Stroheim's career as a director. Set in Vienna in 1914 this was one of Stroheim's regular forays into the world of decadent European aristocracy. Paramount books
1932rif. WALTER-FILM006662Paramount. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount 1932. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. There are light signs of use at blank corners about fine. Marlene Dietrich was the true writer of the screenplay for this opus which took her from wealth to ruin to rags to fame to wealth again. The censors crossed out so much of her material even in the pre-Code period that by the time a final script was approved she and director/mentor Joseph von Sternberg had little interest in making the film. They came through though with a brilliant odyssey highlighted by Dietrich in many moods all behind heavy diffusion. Here is Dietrich as the down-and-out vagrant Helen Faraday with Sidney Toler as the detective on her trail. Photo coded 1385-87. Paramount books
rif. WALTER-FILM006308Paramount. No binding. Fine. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1947. Vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white print still photo fine. Studio portrait shot a year after Veronica Lake appeared in THE BLUE DAHLIA. She remained at Paramount for a few more years after. Paramount unknown books
1933rif. WALTER-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. 1933 pre-Code film based on William Faulkner's 1931 novel Sanctuary. 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 Baby Face made the same year The Story of Temple Drake 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. 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. 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
1931rif. WALTER-FILM007590Paramount. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1931. Vintage original 11 x 14" 28 x 36 cm lobby card. Two archival paper remnants on verso. Card is in impeccable condition fine. Tabu was the great German director F. W. Murnau's last film he died shortly before its premiere due to a car accident and one of the final masterpieces of silent film. Murnau traveled to Bora Bora with documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty with whom he worked on some early versions of the script but disputes arose and Flaherty bowed out. Wikipedia Lobby cards from this film are genuinely rare. This card with the film's two protagonists in the center turns up almost never. Paramount books
1932rif. WALTER-FILM007826Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1932. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Near fine. A beautiful portrait of Anna May Wong for one of her most substantial roles in a major talking film the notorious pre-Code opus Shanghai Express directed by Josef von Stroheim. Though Wong received third billing behind Marlene Dietrich and Clive Brook her portrayal of Hui Fei is universally regarded as a masterclass in acting. Hui Fei is a fiercely independent woman navigating a train ride from Peking to Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War which is hijacked by rebel forces. Her performance often overshadowed Dietrich's. Unfortunately she would not be cast in another role as complex as this. Wikipedia Photo coded P671-245. Paramount books
rif. WALTER-FILM006307Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1942. Vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white print still photo small closed tear in blank upper center top just about fine. Studio portrait of Veronica Lake during her time at Paramount Pictures. Photo coded P2745-504. Paramount unknown books
rif. WALTER-FILM005811Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount 1942. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo. Photo is lightly sepia toned. There is creasing in all four blank white margins. Near fine. A stunning portrait of Veronica Lake during her early time at Paramount when she was appearing in such now classic films as I WANTED WINGS THIS GUN FOR HIRE and I MARRIED A WITCH. Lake worked with the top directors and filmmakers and turned in some wonderfully subtle and deft performances in which her genius has been more recently recognized. This publicity photo is coded #2745034. Paramount unknown books
