N.p. [England]: 22nd Feb., 1949. "Re-printed 24.10.49 (Shortened Reel Two). "The Passionate Friends" was David Lean film production starring Ann Todd, Clauded Rains, and Trevor Howard. Eric Ambler (with Stanley Haynes) adapted it from the H.G. Wells novel of the same name; it was released in the US under the... Read More

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

New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2002. First edition. SIGNED by Barney (”Matthew Barney”) on the title-page. Read More

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

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

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

Affectionate Letter from Shirley Temple Black to Alfred Eisenstaedt. By the time she was six she had made 20 films. FDR stated, "As long as our country has Shirley Temple we will be all right". At age seven, her films had saved 20th-Century Fox from bankruptcy, and she had become... Read More

[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

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

New York: September 1937. Number 147 of a Limited Edition of 700 copies, specially bound and numbered "presented to Ronald Colman, Esq." Ronald Colman's Copy. Only 3 issues of this costly magazine were issued. This issue also carries a full page ad for "The Prisoner of Zenda" Read More

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

[New York]: A Hugo Edition of the Bodley Press, [1949]. First American edition. Read More

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