Verlag: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Cosmopolitan Productions, Beverly Hills, CA, 1933
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Vintage reference photographs from the 1933 film. With manuscript ink annotation on the border of the recto identifying actor Walter Huston. Based on the 1933 novel by T.F. Tweed. The President of the United States gets in a car accident and begins to not act like himself. He declares himself dictator of the country. Set in Washington D.C. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Weldon 1996.
Verlag: 20th Century Pictures / United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1934
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film, here advertised under working title, "The Firebrand." Based on the 1945 play by Edwin Justus Mayer. A duke and duchess both have their eyes on other people, but do not want the other to know. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with one small tear to the top left corner and a small chip missing from the top right corner.
Verlag: Universal Pictures, Universal City, 1942
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Vintage press photograph of actress Irene Dunne and director Gregory La Cava on the set of the 1942 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. A screwball comedy about Jane Palmer (Irene Dunne), a wealthy heiress who recklessly spends away her fortune, worrying her guardian Billinglsey (Eugene Pallette) who arranges for her to see Dr. Enright (Patrick Knowles) a psychiatrist who poses as her chauffeur on a cross country trip to her childhood home in Arizona where Jane begins prospecting in her grandfathers now defunct gold mine. Shot on location in Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films.
Verlag: Universal Studios, Universal City, 1941
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film, showing actress Irene Dunne in a lace-embellished dress and net fascinator. Printed mimeo snipe and provenance stamp on the verso. A small-town singer falls in love with a city playboy on a train to New York, only for him to ignore her as soon as the train pulls into the station. Days later, after gaining a job as a nightclub singer, she is propositioned by the playboy's brother. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: Columbia Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1935
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Collection of ten vintage photographs from the 1935 film, including one keybook photograph and six double-weight photographs, including one taken on the set. All photographs with studio stamps crediting photograph Ray Jones on the verso, and nine with mimeo snipes on the same. The collection includes one keybook photograph of Katherine Alexander, one double-weight photograph of Claudette Colbert and Michael Bartlett on the set, four publicity photographs of Edith Fellows (two being double-weight photographs), and four reference photographs (three being double-weight photographs). From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Claudette Colbert stars as an extraordinarily competent secretary who marries her bossonly to discover taking care of him at home proves much more challenging than taking care of the office. 8 x 10 inches to 8 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall. Byrge and Miller. The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942.