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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1997 re-release of the 1943 film, showing Akim Tamiroff, Franchot Tone, and Anne Baxter. Based on Lajos Biro's 1917 play "Hotel Imperial: Szinmu negy felvonasban." During World War II, a British soldier passes himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered by Nazis, later becoming entr…

Two lobby cards from the 1962 re-release of the 1939 film. Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Stern Russian agent Ninotchka (Garbo) arrives in Paris for business and is transformed by Parisian love for the playboy Count Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas). Nominated for four Academy…

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film. One of the photographs with a sticker noting the photograph is from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo library Daniel Bouteiller on the verso. The second photograph is from a later Paramount re-release…

Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the set of the 1964 film. Director Billy Wilder shown with Kim Novak. Based on the 1945 Italian play "L'ora della fantasia" by Anna Bonacci. A jealous piano teacher playing host to an infamous nightclub singer sends his beautiful wife away in the hopes of keeping the lecherous si…

Press kit for the 1978 film. Full-color illustrated folder, with six black-and-white borderless reference photographs and 15 gatherings of promotional reading material, housed all together in a white envelope. Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon, from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts…

Zustand: Good. Original pictorial wraps. 18.2 x 25.8cm. 34.pp.The Motion Picture Library was a pioneering bilingual film publication launched in Tokyo in post-WWII Japan (1946-1948). Aimed at bridging American pop culture and Japanese audiences, it printed full English scripts, actor profiles, and bilingual synopses of imports l…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film, showing director Billy Wilder smoking a cigarette with actor William Holden between takes. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso, along with the stamp of Cinéma magazine. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a forgotten silent film star, quickly bec…

Draft script for the 1978 film. With a manuscript ink notation on the title page reading "draft completed 10/8/76." Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon, from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring a retired and reclusive actress back into the spotlight. Told…

Collection of twelve vintage French color lobby cards from the 1978 film. Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon, from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring a retired and reclusive actress back into the spotlight. Told in flashback, beginning with her suicide-b…

Collection of 18 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film. Based on French playwright Alexandre Breffort's 1956 stage musical, about the torrid romance between a French policeman and a prickly, popular street prostitute. Actor Shirley MacLaine, who traveled with Jack Lemmon to real Paris brothels to research their roles,…

Vintage studio still photograph of director Billy Wilder and actress Marlene Dietrich inspecting a film strip on the set of the 1948 film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists a US army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer. Unbeknownst to the con…

Vintage US half sheet poster for the 1957 film. Based on the 1953 play by Agatha Christie, about the trial of a man accused of murder. Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director Best Actor for Charles Laughton and Best Supporting Actress for Elsa Lanchester. Set in London. 28 x 22 inches. Folded twic…

Vintage reference photograph of director Billy Wilder chatting with actors Tony Curtis (apparently visiting the set) and Jack Lemmon on the set of the 1960 film. A mild-mannered office worker allows his boss use of his apartment for the boss' weekend dalliances in hopes of getting ahead on the corporate ladder, only to finally m…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1950 film, showing actor (and real-life director) Erich von Stroheim with a camera crew, preparing to capture the film's iconic final scene. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into th…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film, showing director Billy Wilder and actress Kim Novak. Based on the 1944 play "L'ora della fantasia" ("The Dazzling Hour") by Anna Bonacci. A jealous piano teacher playing host to an infamous nightclub singer sends his beautiful wife away in the hopes of keeping the lecherous singer…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film, showing the "wax works" card party, composed of actress Gloria Swanson and actors Anna Q. Nilsson, H.B. Warner, and Buster Keaton (playing themselves). From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a forgott…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film, showing actress Marlene Dietrich looking typically glamorous. Mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists an American army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer in postwar Berlin. Unbeknownst…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film, showing actors Cecil B. DeMille and Gloria Swanson talking on the set. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a forgotten silent film star, quickly becoming enmeshed in her deranged plan for a comeback. A kingpin in the pantheon of films about fame and Hollyw…

Vintage reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch from the set of the 1938 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1921 French play "La Huitieme Femme de Barbe-Bleue" by Alfred Savoir. Previously Filmed as a silent film in 1923, now lost, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gloria Swanson and Huntley Gordon. The first of many colla…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film, showing director Ernst Lubitsch in conversation with actors Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert on the set, between takes, with a camera crew in the foreground. Based on the 1921 French play by Alfred Savoir. After discovering her multimillionaire fiance has already been married sev…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1948 film, showing director Billy Wilder demonstrating how to embrace actress Marlene Dietrich, with actor John Lund looking on in the background. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with several manuscript annotations regarding layout. An Iowa congresswoman enlists a U…

Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the set of the 1932 French film, showing actors Madeleine Ozeray and Marcel André in a plane prop. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Dario Niccodemi's 1915 play "Scampolo," which also served as the basis for a 1928 German silent film and a 1941 Italia…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film, showing actress Marlene Dietrich. Mimeo snipe on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists an American army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer in postwar Berlin. Unbeknownst to the congresswoman, however, the captain and the entertainer are engag…

Vintage keybook photograph from the 1941 film, showing actors Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, and Richard Haydn. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of the Advertising Advisory Council dated NOV 13 1941. A group of bachelor professors living together in a New York brownstone have worked for years…