stephani frederick (5 Ergebnisse)

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1943 film musical. A loose remake of the 1937 film, "Love is News" with Tyrone Power and Loretta Young, "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" finds Betty Grable in London, seeking to better herself as an artist, which in 1943 means landing a wealthy duke for a husband. But newspaperman Robert Young has other plans for her love life. Remade once more as a comedy in 1948, as "That Wonderful Urge," with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Good, with profuse manuscript annotations to the verso and three to the recto, although not obscuring the image. Stamped to the verso.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair dj. First Edition. [solid clean copy, moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, extremely minor fraying at bottom corners (boards just a teensy bit exposed); jacket is heavily edgeworn, split about halfway up at rear hinge, various creases and tiny chips, paper loss at several corners and at spine extremities (a couple of letters of "Macaulay" lost at bottom), although with all that the front panel illustration is still attractive]. "In a simple and unpretentious way the author has his hero tell his own story -- a youth at the end of the war fighting for self-preservation in a distorted and chaotic world. Born to a high position and great wealth, having lived a romantic childhood, he finds himself a disillusioned wreck after war and revolution have swept away the glittering advantages." He moves through many worlds -- Europe during "its maddest hour--the inflation," the theatrical world of Paris, fortune-hunting in South America, involved in a Central American revolution, etc. It's hard to escape the suspicion that the book is somewhat (or more) autobiographical: like his protagonist, Stephani (1903-1962) was born in Germany and ended up in Hollywood, where by the time this book appeared he had already embarked on a not-terribly-distinguished career as a screenwriter and sometime producer-director (his most notable achievements being the first two FLASH GORDON serials and an Oscar nomination, for the original story in 1947 for IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE, shared with the equally obscure Herbert Clyde Lewis. (The book's main character only gets to Tinseltown twelve pages before the end, just in time to work in a couple of clever cracks about foreigners in the film business, and an amusing scene where he inadvertently offends a character obviously modeled on Howard Hughes -- "a lanky youth of about six foot three, casually dressed in a golf suit," who turns out to be the producer of the film he's trying to get a job on.) The New York Times reviewer sniffed: "As a parody of the picaresque adventure story or of the smutty Continental novel, [this book] might conceivably get by. Neither the author nor his publishers, though, lend encouragement to any such notion, and one is forced to conclude that Mr. Stephani's preposterous tale is just plain bad.".

Zustand: Good. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1934. 1st edition. Sm 8vo hardcover. 315pp. Good book. Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket is edgeworn with a 1.5 inch tear on spine. (Literature, Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film. Troubled young adolescent Johnny Holiday is sent to a reform school in Indiana, where he must choose between his criminally minded friends and the caring tutelage of Sgt. Walker, played by William Bendix. Set in and shot on location in Indiana. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing at the extremities.

Vintage publicity photograph of Buster Crabbe from the 1936 serial film. 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. Based on the 1934 comic-strip character created by Alex Raymond. The first screen adaptation of "Flash Gordon," presented as a serial film in 13 chapters and starring Buster Crabbe in the titular role battling to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, portrayed by Charles B. Middleton. Followed by two sequels, also in serial form, "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" (1938) and "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" (1940). Remade in 1980 as a superhero space opera film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Sam J. Jones and Melony Anderson. Shot on location in Bronson Canyon, California. 8 x 10 inches, mounted onto a 8.25 x 10.25 inch black art board. Near Fine, with even toning. National Film Registry.