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Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1923 film, showing actors Monte Blue and Marie Prevost. With manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout and the stamp of the N.E.A. Reference Department dated JUL 10 1924 to the verso. A young woman with a troubled marriage attempts to win back her husband. 7.5 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a small tear to the bottom edge and light soil to the border.…

Archive of 94 vintage, double weight photographs from the 1928 film. Inspired by the 1919 nonfiction travel book by Frederick O'Brien, and retaining much of that work's anti-imperialist themes, about an alcoholic doctor who is set adrift by white traders after objecting to their treatment of the Polynesian workers, only to wash ashore on an island where the natives have never seen a white man. MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack, comprised of music and sound effects, including, most notably, the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start, although the film doesn't quite classify as a talkie, as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set on a Polynesian Island, shot on location in Tahiti, at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders, using many of them as extras in the film. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good, with expected light curling and fading, with occasional light creasing or bruising to the photographs. In a custom cloth clamshell box. For buyers with a serious potential interest in purchase, a link to a complete set of watermarked images is available on request. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.…

Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue, who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script, here under the working title "Southern Skies," four vintage photographs, each with a mimeo snipe on the verso, one with a press stamp as well, and a later, 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film, signed and dated by Blue, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack, comprised of music and sound effects, including, most notably, the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start, White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie," as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set on a Polynesian Island, shot on location in Tahiti, at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders, using many of them as extras in the film. Carbon typescript draft: Cream colored titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 5046 and production No. 338, dated November 29, 1927, with credits for screenwriter Jack Cunningham and adaptation writer Ray Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the text, dated November 16,1927, with credits for Cunningham and Doyle. 146 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 146. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. 1921 copy of "White Shadows in the South Seas:" Early The Century edition from 1921, first edition was originally published by The Century in 1919. Very Good, lacking jacket. Front hinge split, with light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities.…

Vintage black and white publicity photograph of actor Monte Blue shining his shoes on the set of the 1926 Ernst Lubitsch film. With an annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso attesting to same. Based on the 1872 play "Le Reveillon" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. A married man living in Paris discovers that his old flame, a free-spirited, flirtatious woman, has moved in next door. Lubitsch's penultimate silent film. Monte Blue established himself as popular male lead during the silent era in "Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Intolerance" (1916), and unlike many silent-era actors, transitioned with ease and success into the sound era beginning in 1927, with this film, "White Shadows in the South Seas" (1928), and "Key Largo" (1948). German-born director Lubitsch moved to the US in the early 1920s, contracted by silent film starlet Mary Pickford to direct "Rosita" (1923). The film proved a substantial hit for both Pickford and Lubitsch, and kicked off the director's successful career in Hollywood, where he became known for "the Lubitsch touch," a catchall for his benign, elegant comedies of manners, most notably "Trouble in Paradise" (1932), "Ninotchka" (1939), "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940), and "Heaven Can Wait" (1943). Set in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with brief wear to the top left and bottom right corners.…