TO DODO FROM WIFE JOAN CRAWFORD
Goethe: The History of a Man, 1749-1832
New York / London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. TO DODO FROM WIFE JOAN CRAWFORD. From the library... Read More about Goethe: The History of a Man, 1749-1832
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New York / London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. TO DODO FROM WIFE JOAN CRAWFORD. From the library... Read More about Goethe: The History of a Man, 1749-1832
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. First edition. In Dust Jacket. Adaptation of Aldrich’s epic dramatic poem Judith and Holoferne, and the basis for two films, most importantly D.W. Griffith's 1914 version, which was his first feature length film and the film that laid the foundations for his furture extravaganzas..... Read More about Judith of Bethulîa, A Tragedy
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Los Angeles: July 15 & November 17, 1939. The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox. Following this agreement — due, it is said, to the intervention of 20th-Century Fox star Jane Withers — Western box-office star Gene Autry signed with the Hollywood giant, and made his first movie with them..... Read More about Two Typed Letters of Agreement, signed, to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming two amendments...
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Los Angeles: 29 March 1993. "if it was easy everyone would be doing it" Responding to Hartley's enquiry into the importance of education to his career. The Cowboy-singer responded "I have always considered a good education extrememly important and one of the best tools to take along with you in..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Gene"
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N.P. [Hollywood]: n.d. [ca. 1950]. Young Man with a Camera: Bacall & Douglas. Bacall & Douglas starred together in YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950), in which Douglas plays a jazz trumpeter involved with the strange and beautiful (and possibly lesbian) Amy, played Bacall. The inscription is reproduced in EISENSTAEDT'S..... Read More about Autograph Inscriptions Signed ("Best Always, Lauren Bacall" and "to Alfred...
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New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. First edition, Number 221 of 265 copies, Signed by the Author, on special paper. Signed Limited. Read More about Memories: An Autobiography
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Hollywood: Spurr, [ca. 1926]. “For 'Doug' Jr”. Superb, large portrait of the great John Barrymore (1882-1942) by the well-known Hollywood photographer of the the silent era, Melbourne Spurr, inscribed lower right to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, (whose signature is on the verso), “For 'Doug' Jr with sincerest good wishes from his..... Read More about Portrait photograph of John Barrymore, inscribed by Barrymore to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
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New York: July 19, 1933. Richard Barthelmess, Born 9 May 1895 in New York, New York, USA, as Richard Semler Barthelmess. Died 17 August 1963 in Southampton, New York, USA, of throat cancer.Married actress Mary Hay 18 June 1920; divorced 1927. Married Jessica Stewart Sargent 1928,together until his death. Richard..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess "Richard Barthelmess at Malibu"
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New York: July 19, 1933. Richard Barthelmess, Born 9 May 1895 in New York, New York, USA, as Richard Semler Barthelmess. Died 17 August 1963 in Southampton, New York, USA, of throat cancer. Married actress Mary Hay 18 June 1920; divorced 1927. Married Jessica Stewart Sargent 1928,together until his death..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess, "Richard Barthelmess at Malibu"
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merill Co, [1939]. 1st state printing with illustrated endpapers showing 10 sepia stills from the movie and with Loews logo lower right and black bands on spine. MOVIE EDITION. Read More about The New Wizard of Oz
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[Los Angeles: July 20, 1938]. Press photos for use in publicity for Universal Pictures LETTER OF INTRODUCITON, with two images of Edgar Bergen with his creation Charlie McCarthy at the signing of their names in cement on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a shot of Bergen and McCarthy at..... Read More about Three press photographs of Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
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[Atlantic City, N.J.]: [1915]. A handbill advertising a screening in Atlantic City, New Jersey, of what remains one of the most controversial American films, The Birth of a Nation, dating from the year of the film's release. The Birth of a Nation was banned in numerous cities, including Atlantic City..... Read More about New Nixon Theatre / Matinee Every Day / D.W. Griffith Presents / The Birth of a Nation / An...
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Praha (Prague): Nakladatelství Svoboda, 1967. First edition. The film script to the Czech new wave musical, directed by Ladislav Rychman. Read More about Dáma na kolejích. Scénář českého filmu
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Culver City, CA: Chartoff Winkler Productions, 1971. Revised draft February 1971, copy distributed to Jack C. Jacobsen, sound engineer on the film, with his name inked to title page along with the number 23. Screenplay for the film based on the Jimmy Breslin novel which in turn is based on..... Read More about The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. A Screen Play by Waldo Salt from the novel by Jimmy Breslin
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New York: Peabody & Co., 219 Broadway, 1833. First edition. Parmly Copy (from the family). "This classical poem was a marked literary production, considering the subject, and was extensively quoted at the time and favorably commented on by the best critics and writers in the profession, and had a great..... Read More about Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, and Their Proper Remedies. By Solyman Brown,...
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Eddie Cantor, Josef Hoffmann, C.B. DeMille to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) began his stage career in 1907, and a half-century later was still going strong on TV's “Colgate Comedy Hour”. He was a Ziegfeld Follies star, a radio headliner with his own shows, and a star of screen and..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York, 1938 [with, on verso:]...
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New York: The Avondale Press, (1929). First edition. Seabury was the General Counsel to the Motion Picture Board of tarde and the National Association of the Motion Picture Indsutry. Read More about Motion Picture Problems. The Cinema and the League of Nations
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[New York]: A Hugo Edition of the Bodley Press, [1949]. First American edition. Read More about The Blood of a Poet. A Film. Translated by Lily Pons with Translator's Note
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[New York]: A Hugo Edition of the Bodley Press, [1949]. First American edition. Read More about The Blood of a Poet. A Film. Translated by Lily Pons with Translator's Note
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[Paris]: Editions Rombaldi, 1944. First Rombaldi edition, one of 120 press-numbered copies on Arches [total edition of 165 copies]. WITH ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY JEAN COCTEAU. Jean Cocteau's play, 'Orphee,' was first produced in 1926, at Theatre des Arts, in Paris. This 1944 limited edition, by Editions Rombaldi, in Paris, is..... Read More about Orphee. Texte et Lithographies de Jean Cocteau. (Tragedie en un Acte et un Intervalle
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Sun Valley, Idaho: Feb 8 1937. SKIING & MORMONS. With sentiments signed by: Robert Young: "I aspire to your perfection in photography." Melvyn Douglas-1936 Sun Valley Wesley Ruggles: "Knowing you has been a great pleasure-Sincerely-Wesley Ruggles-1937." On verso: Helen Meinardi: " 'I met him in Sun Valley' 1937 An original..... Read More about Signature
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New York: May 18, 1946. Toby, in Menotti's THE MEDIUM, 1946. A very rare and early image (none are in the Library of Congress) of the versatile and prolific actor, choreographer, screenwriter and director who worked on stage and screen in Italy in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Born Leopoldo..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Leo Coleman [aka Leopoldo Savarona] as Toby in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera,...
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1957]. First American edition. With TLS to Ronald Colman from Publisher sending him a copy of the book and mentoning that he appears on page 183. Read More about Freddy
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Los Angeles, Calif: September 13, 1950. Cooper was to receive 3% of the gross receipts -- up to $350,000 -- for his role in the film which came out in the following year as YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW. Read More about Typed Contract signed, between Gary Cooper and Twentieth-Century Fox , to portray the role of...
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