mitchell leisen (11 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. Invitation Is A Single Sheet Folded Twice, With Duquette's Design On Front Cover. Undated, For Exhibition April 7-8-9 At 724 North La Cienega. Also With, The List And Description Of The Exhibition, String Bound, Wih Duquette's Design On Front Cover. Tony Duquette (1914 - 1999) Was An American Artist. After Graduating From Chouinard, He Began Working In Advertising, Creating Special Environments For The Latest Seasonal Fashions. He Also Began To Free-Lance For Designers. In The Early 1940S, Duquette's Parents And Siblings Moved Permanently To Los Angeles, Where Duquette Had Been Living Since 1935, And Where He Became Friends With Horace Okey. Duquette Was Discovered By Designer And Socialite Elsie De Wolfe. Through The Patronage Of De Wolfe And Her Husband Sir Charles Mendl, Duquette Established Himself As One Of The Leading Designers In Los Angeles. He Worked Increasingly For Films, Including Many Metro Goldwyn Mayer Productions Under The Auspices Of Producer Arthur Freed And Director Vincente Minnelli. Duquette Designed Costumes And Settings For The Movies, Interiors For Mary Pickford And Buddy Rogers, Jewelry And Special Furnishings For Lady Mendl, As Well As Numerous Night Clubs And Public Places. He Served In The United States Army For Four Years During The Second World War And Received An Honorable Discharge. He Presented His First Exhibition At The Mitch Liesen Gallery In Los Angeles And Shortly Thereafter Was Asked To Present His Works At The Pavilion De Marsan Of The Louvre Museum, Paris. Duquette Was The First American Artist To Have A One-Man Show At The Louvre. Returning From A Year In France, Where He Received Design Commissions From The Duke And Duchess Of Windsor And The Alsatian Industrialist Commandant Paul Louis Weiller, Duquette Held A One-Man Showing Of His Works At The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art. There Followed Other One-Man Exhibitions Of Duquette's Works, Including At The M. H. De Young Museum And Palace Of The Legion Of Honor In San Francisco, The California Museum Of Science And Industry And Municipal Art Gallery In Los Angeles, The El Paso Museum Of Art, The Santa Barbara Museum Of Art, The Museum Of The City Of New York, As Well As One-Man Exhibitions In Dallas, Chicago, Rio De Janeiro And Phoenix, Arizona. Duquette Created Interiors For Doris Duke, Norton Simon, And J. Paul Getty, A Castle In Ireland For Elizabeth Arden And A Penthouse In The Hawaiian Islands. He Also Designed Interiors For Commercial And Public Spaces Like The Hilton Hawaiian Village, Sheraton Universal Hotel, And Sculptures And Tapestries For The Ritz Carlton Hotel In Chicago As Well As The Los Angeles Music Center And The University Of California At Los Angeles. Designs For Film And Theatre Include Yolanda And The Thief, Lovely To Look At, Kismet, And Ziegfeld Follies For Mgm, As Well As Jest Of Cards, Beauty And The Beast, And Danses Concertantes For The San Francisco Ballet. Operas For Which Duquette Designed Both Costumes And Settings Include Der Rosenkavelier, The Magic Flute, And Salome. His Designs For The Original Broadway Production Of Camelot Won Duquette The Tony Award For Best Costume Design. His Monumental Work Of Environmental Art Our Lady Queen Of The Angels Was Created As A Gift To The People Of Los Angeles. This Hugely Successful Multi-Sensorial Exhibit Was Seen By Hundreds Of Thousands Of Visitors Over A Three-Year Period At The California State Museum Of Science And Industry At Exposition Park. In 1979, The Duquettes Formed The Anthony And Elizabeth Duquette Foundation For The Living Arts. In 1989, Much Of Duquette's Original Art In The Duquette Pavilion Was Destroyed In A Fire. The Duquettes Then Focused Their Efforts On Construction At His 150-Acre Ranch In The Malibu Mountains Of California. Calling It Sortilegium, Which Is Latin For "Fortune-Telling. Duquette Strove To Create A Living Work Of Art. After Many Years Of Work, This Was Also Destroyed, By The Green Meadow Fire Of 1993.

Zustand: Very Good. Black and white press photograph, promotional device resembling lobby card. 8'' x 10''. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CINEMA [Front of House Press Photograph].

140 : 90 mm. Signierter Restaurantbeleg des Paramount Contental Cafe" über $ 2.15.

Final script for the 1938 film. The S.S. Gigantic, an expensive, "radio-powered" ocean liner prepares to race its rival, the ocean liner S.S. Colossal, across the Atlantic, from New York to Cherbourg, in two and a half days. Sabotage and romantic hijinks ensue on both sides. Bob Hope's first feature film appearance. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated September 11, 1937, noted as FINAL WHITE SCRIPT, stamped FILE COPY and MASTER FILE, noted as production No. 1157. 145 leaves, with last page of text numbered D-54. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 10-15-37. Pages Very Good plus, with the title page and last three leaves separated from the binding, side stitched with two staples.

Vintage press photograph of Mitchell Leisen, Myrna Loy, and John Howard from the preview party at Leisen's house for the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. What should be a routine transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco is complicated by its shady passengers, which include three jewel thieves, a strange nobleman, and a beautiful socialite. Shot on location in Alhambra, California and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film, showing director Mitchell Leisen bandaging actress Paulette Goddard's foot between takes. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1943 novel by Rosamond Marshall, based in turn on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," about a young cockney woman who receives a complete makeover at the hands of an impoverished aristocratic family, who hope to repair their fortunes by arranging her marriage to a peer. Set in London. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1935 film, showing director Mitchell Leisen and a camera crew capturing a party scene. Based on Norman Krasna's 1934 play "Small Miracle," about the relationship between a policeman and the dangerous fugitive he has been tasked with guarding for the evening. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film, showing actress Marlene Dietrich playing the zither. Stamp of photographer Whitey Schafer on the verso. Based on the 1946 novel by Jolán Földes, about a British soldier who escapes from the Gestapo during World War II by posing as a gypsy. Shot on location in Bend and Corbett, Oregon. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film, showing director Mitchell Leisen talking to actors Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray between takes. Provenance stamp on the verso. An eccentric, unmarried actress who longs for motherhood finds an abandoned baby, and enlists a divorced pediatrician's help in raising the child. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with paper tape reinforcements on the corner versos.

Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on, from the 1937 film. Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary. During the Great Depression, obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold), angered at his wife's (Mary Nash) spending, throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof, where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith (Arthur), leading to a life-altering chain of events. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear, else Near Fine. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography: 1934-1942.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film, showing stars Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and Charles Butterworth relaxing with director Mitchell Leisen between takes. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink identifying the subjects on the verso. The second of three adaptations of the Broadway play "Burlesque," following "The Dance of Life" (1928) and preceding "When My Baby Smiles at Me" (1948). The second film collaboration of Lombard and MacMurray with Leisen, after the classic screwball comedy "Hands Across the Table" (1935), and the third of four films to couple Lombard and MacMurray. 10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with some light wear to the corners.