![[Book #170938] Phantom Lady. Robert Siodmak, Cornell Woolrich, Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Ella Raines Franchot Tone, Alan Curtis, director, novel, screenwriter, starring, as William Irish.](https://royalbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/170938.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779345901)
Phantom Lady
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film, including a photograph of a mockup of the Tower edition of the Cornell Woolrich (William Irish) novel, released the same year.
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.
Set in Manhattan.
8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.
[Book #170938]
Price: $225.00
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