Phantom Lady

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Several photographs with provenance stamps and stickers on the verso, and two with the printed label of Palace Theatre affixed to the verso.

Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir, and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel, written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942, about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison, a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock ("Rebecca," "Foreign Correspondent") and Universal's first female executive.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good, with light toning and edgewear.

Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.

[Book #156251]