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ref. 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
ref. WALTER-FILM006440Paramount. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1935. Vintage original 8 x 11"" 20 x 28 cm. black-and-white double weight glossy silver nitrate keybook photo. Minor wear at bottom left edge keybook holes at left edge about fine. Independent film producer Walter Wanger throws a wrap party at the completion of his Paramount-released musical Every Night at Eight on the film's nightclub set and likely on the last day of principal photography; it is rare to find photos showing such events. His stars Alice Faye Frances Langford George Raft and director Raoul Walsh are joined by left-to-right: - Henry Fonda who was placed under contract to Wanger in 1935 after Broadway success and was just finishing his first film The Farmer Takes a Wife; - Gail Patrick Paramount contract player who was appearing in Wanger's Smart Girl at the time; - Walter Wanger producer of the film; - Alice Faye who was on loan from Fox Pictures to star in Wanger's film. She is still in costume; - Ida Lupino who was appearing in and is in costume and makeup for Wanger's production Smart Girl; - William Wellman well-known director writer and producer seemingly between projects; - Alison Skipworth in costume for The Devil is a Woman; - Frances Langford making her feature film debut and debuting her signature song ""I'm In the Mood for Love"". Her costume matches that of Alice Faye; - George Raft lead star of the film and Paramount contract player; - Joan Bennett who would be married to Wanger between 1940-65 and who was appearing in numerous Paramount films in 1935; - Raoul Walsh director of the film; - Bert Hanlon though the verso identifies him as Harry Holman -- the character actor who appeared in over 20 films in 1935 alone including uncredited in this film -- it is incorrect. This is composer songwriter actor author and director Bert Hanlon who wrote dialogue for this film. The party took place in late-June 1935 at General Service Studio Hollywood CA. Ink stamped by the Hollywood Advertising Council June 26 1935. Paramount unknown
ref. st-louis-blues-1958-origiThe rare original British Quad poster for the 1958 film St. Louis Blues starring Nat King Cole Eartha Kitt Cab Calloway Ella Fitzgerald and more. A rare poster in such condition. St. Louis Blues 1958 British Quad film poster starring Nat King Cole 30 x 40 inches. The colours are incredibly vibrant with only minor fold wear. A near-fine example that has been professionally dry mounted with archival materials. Framed and glazed to the highest standard. unknown
ref. 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
ref. 63-8676Paris France: Films Paramount 1930. Autographed Post Card 3.5" x 5.5". Good with creasing; post card removed from album with remains on verso. En Francais. On Verso: Cinemagazine Edition Paris. Provenance: from the collection of Madeleine Sintes. Many of the photos from the collection have dedications to her. Paris, France: Films Paramount, 1930. unknown
1949ref. L069427NP Paramount Pictures Inc 1949. First Edition. Unknown. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall large. Slight browning to edges; slight browning to acetate and album matting. 12 leaves rectos only except for 1 newspaper clipping recto/verso; unpaginated. Series of 8 film stills in all from the Paramount picture released in 1949 directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a script by Jesse L. Lasky Junior and Fredric M. Frank starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature plus supplementary photographs showing Ms. Lamarr's peacock feathered cape 2 from the studio both from November 1948; one with designers Jeanne Wheeler and Jane Moore working on the costume and one with Jane Moore alone working with the feathers; and one excerpted from the Los Angeles Times taken by Iris Schneider of the entire costume and the Norman Rockwell portrait of Samson from the 'De Mille Dynasty Exhibition' undetermined date; with the added bonus portrait photograph of Lamarr 3/4 right profile pose undetermined photographer and date with 'HL-DL-62' in white in lower left corner boldly signed and inscribed by Lamarr in lower right corner: 'To Jane -- With every good wish -- Hedy Lamarr / 1948'. A genuine token of affection of a star for a notable costume designer Ms. Moore being a protegee of Edith Head at Paramount with relevant supplementary matter; sold as a unit. Lamarr 1913-2000; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; Austrian-born leading lady of the 1930's and 1940's; noteworthy for her nude appearance in the 1933 Czech film 'Extase' or 'Ecstasy'; in Hollywood from 1937 on 'Algiers' 1938; 'Boom Town' 1940; 'White Cargo' 1942; 'Samson and Delilah' 1949; 'My Favorite Spy' 1951; etc.12 b/w Photographs including Film stills. NP [Paramount Pictures, Inc?] unknown
1928ref. 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
1932ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
1928ref. 557301 vol. in-4 cartonnage éditeur demi-percaline marron, Société Anonyme Française des Films Paramount, 1928-1929, non paginé, mais 4 pages sont consacrées à chacun des 63 films, avec 64 planches supplémentaires hors texte et annexes
ref. 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
1933ref. 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
1933ref. 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
1931ref. 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
ref. 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
1932ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
1931ref. 19133ENew 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
ref. 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
1926ref. 215433New York City : Paramount Pictures 1926 1926. Pre-Publication Edition. Hardback. Portfolio folio copy in an elaborately decorated cloth binding. The binding is somewhat worn around the spine and panel edges with some surface cracks visible on the spine cover. Some posters are card-backed and loosely inserted with some minor dulling and edge-wear. The other posters are in a cord-bound section of the folder. This unique collector's item remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; Description: In-house pre-publication working copy of '15th birthday group : World-wide Celebration of 15 Years of Continuour Leadership of Paramount Pictures'. 40 x 30cm. Contents include 18 full-colour double-sided film posters loosely inserted and 11 double-sided film posters in a cord-bound section of the title. The cord-bound section also features some blank leaves with MS instructions indicating the placing of the plates and contents. Subjects: Paramount Pictures -- Movie memorabilia -- Film -- United States -- Film posters -- Motion pictures -- Film history -- Film studies -- 1920s -- 20th century. Films featured on posters include: Old Ironsides Moon of Israel The College Flirt Born to the West The Quarterback The Thief of Dreams The Rough Riders Sorrows of Satan Beau Geste The Covered Wagon Nell Gwyn and many others. New York City : Paramount Pictures, [1926] hardcover
1931ref. 19133ENew 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
ref. 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
