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...

New York: July 15, 1941. Read More about Portrait photograph of Tallulah Bankhead, with her lion cub Winston Churchill

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

n.p. [Paris?]: n.d [ca. 1920-1954]. Inscribed to his Sister. A lyrical piece in A minor, with a central section in A major, composed for the piano and inscribed by Lionel Barrymore to his sister:“Dédieé à Mlle. Ethel Barrymore.”Barrymore composed a variety of music, from solo pieces to large orchestral works..... Read More about Autograph music manuscript, "Ossity Hongroise, op. trente"

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"

[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...

[Los Angeles]: University International, 1956. The Life of Lon Chaney. A fascinating account of the detailed costs involved in making this black and white production of Lon Chaney's life compiled November 15, 1956 by Robert Daley, of the Production Budget Department, with the inserted “Picture Cost Report” providing an update... Read More about Production Budget for the making of “Man of a Thousand Faces” with James Cagney (as Lon...

Los Angeles: 29 May 1942. Chandler Sells Part of His Soul. Chandler assigns film rights for his third novel, completed in March 1942, here still bearing his original title, The Brasher Doubloon as well as the alternate title that Chandler gave it at Blanche Knopf’s suggestion. The High Window was... Read More about Original Typed Document, signed in ink (“Raymond Chandler”), dated 29 May 1942, assigning...

New York: February 11, 1930. ‘It Can Be Done’. An encouraging letter by one of the founders of Universal Studios. Reading in part: “When I reached America in 1884, I was probably about your age. I was the proud possessor of $50.00 - - A world of adventure lay ahead... Read More about Typed letter signed "Carl Laemmle" to "Mr. Halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in...

New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. One of the great anti-war novels to come out of the First World War and the basis for the film by Stanley Kubrick starring Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou. Read More about Paths of Glory

[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

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,...