herbert brenon (3 Ergebnisse)

Shooting script for the 1928 film. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer file copy, with rubber stamps on the front wrapper indicating such. Carbon typescript, with descriptive text and intertitles in black type. A few typeovers and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. A rare example of a silent film screenplay. Based on the 1923 stage adaptation by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, about professional clowns Tito (Chaney) and Simon (Siegel), who take in an abandoned child and name her Simonetta (Young, who was 15 at the time). When Simonetta is older, she joins the circus, and meets Count Luigi Ravelli (Asther), who becomes infatuated with her. Ravelli consults a doctor about his fits of uncontrollable laughter, and there he meets Tito, who has come to seek help for his fits of uncontrollable weeping. The two decide to help each other, but soon find they are both vying for Simonetta's love. Nominated for an Academy Award in 1929 for Best Title Writing, the only year for that category. Set in Italy, shot on location in Elysian Park (a suburb of Los Angeles, California). Blue studio wrappers, noted as FIRST TEMPORARY INCOMPLETE on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 1640 and copy No. 5236, dated November 19, 1927, with credits for playwrights Belasco and Cushing, and screenwriter Meehan. 72 leaves, carbon typescript, on watermarked onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, now encapsulated in mylar, bound with two gold brads. Blake (2001) US.

Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1923 epic silent costume film, here showing actress Pola Negri enjoying a lunch break with director Herbert Brenon and actor Antonio Moreno. Mimeo snipe and Famous Players-Lasky stamp on the verso. Based on the 1844 play "Don Cesar de Bazan," which was in turn loosely based on Victor Hugo's 1938 play "Ruy Blas." Love develops between a Romani fortune teller and a wealthy Spanish count, to the chagrin of the King of Spain. Hot on the heels of Mary Pickford's "Rosita," also released in 1923. Set in Spain. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned.

Reference photograph, struck circa 1934, from the 1924 film. Stamped on the verso by photographer Jacques Boyer as well as Roger Violette, who acquired Boyer's archive in 1963. Shown are noted Irish-American director Herbert Brenon, cinematographer James Wong Howe, and an unidentified indigenous interpreter on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and the stamps of photographer Jacques Boyer and Helene Roger-Viollet on the verso. Based on the 1923 novel by James Oliver Curwood, about an Alaskan who fights robber barons in order to preserve the wilderness. An early performance by actress Anna May Wong. Currently considered a lost film. 6.75 x 9.25 inches. About Near Fine.