![Give My Regards to Broadway [Off to Buffalo] (Original screenplay for the 1948 film). Lloyd...](/pictures/thumb/140099.jpg?v=1492980441)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Final script for the 1948 film. With a single note on the verso of the last page in holograph blue ink. Shot under the name "Off to Buffalo" as is presented here. Vaudeville is a fading form of entertainment and prospects are grim for the Norwick family, a juggling act struggling to find work. They...
London: Camera Press, 1929. Vintage borderless press photograph of Adele and Fred Astaire, original shot in 1929 by Cecil Beaton, this photo re-struck from the negative circa 1960. Mimeo snipe and press agency stamps on the verso. Fred and Adele Astaire were siblings and performance partners throughout their 27-career in vaudeville and theater productions. 6 x 8 inches (15.25 x 20.25 cm). Near Fine.
West Germany: Rhombus Film, 1952. Two vintage photographs of Zarah Leander on the set of the 1952 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel by Tibor Yost. The second role in Zarah Leander's 1950s comeback after her career as a major star during the Nazi era 7 x 5 inches (17.75 x 12.7 cm). Near Fine.
Kansas City, MO: A.M. Wilson / The Sphinx, 1913. First Edition. A small pamphlet detailing tricks of the trade for magicians and performers, written during the height of the vaudeville era. Very Good in stapled wrappers. Stamp from the Magic House of Charles on the title page. Bruise to the front wrapper, with some light toning to the edges. Page...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer, representative of a new generation of performers. The first...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US pressbook for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer, representative of a new generation of performers. The first...
Various cities: Various. An archive of books and personal material belonging to Arline de Haas, noted author of the photoplay edition for the first talking film, “The Jazz Singer” (1927). Included is her leather-bound presentation copy of her novelization of the film, a work that caused a fundamental and multi-level shift in the world’s conception of cinema and dramatic storytelling.....
![In the Devildog House [Devil Dog House] (Photographic proof of a trial poster from the 1934 film...](/pictures/thumb/140332.jpg?v=1492980507)
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1934. Photographic proof trial poster for the 1934 film short. Clark and McCullough were a vaudeville comedy duo comprised of comedians Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough; the pair began in vaudeville, and eventually made a series of short films together during the 1920s and 1930s. The still features a photographic proof trial poster for their 1934...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Shooting Final script for the 1947 film. With some notations in holograph pencil. Laid in are two drawings in holograph pencil. Based on the 1944 autobiographical novel by Miriam Young, a young woman (Grable) decides to marry a vaudeville performer instead of attending business school in San Francisco. She eventually has two daughters and retires...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Script for the 1940 film musical, "Tin Pan Alley," directed by Walter Lang, based on the story "Life is a Song" by Pamela Harris, written for the screen by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, and starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, and John Payne. In a pairing that would a few years later...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue Script for the 1940 film musical,"Tin Pan Alley," directed by Walter Lang, based on the story "Life is a Song" by Pamela Harris, written for the screen by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, and starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, and John Payne. In a pairing that would a few...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1958. Revised Final Draft script for the 1958 television episode of "The Ed Wynn Show." Copy belonging to actor Tom Irish, with his name in green holograph ink to the front wrapper and notation in green ink to a single page. Irish played an uncredited bit part named "Biff." In 1958, veteran vaudeville comedian...
New York: Pascal Covici, 1928. First Edition, preceding all others. One of 750 copies (this being No. 141) published for subscribers. Tan and gold paper over boards, quarterbound in dark gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine and in black on the front board. Deep yellow topstain. With an attractive example of the extremely uncommon original slipcase...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Synopsis script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. The supposed memoir of a showgirl, who begins who career simply as a beautiful woman who think she is untalented in all other areas, and ends up embarrassing herself rather often at the start of her career. She eventually develops a camaraderie with her fellow performers and.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1956. Revised Final Screenplay for the 1957 film. Included is a folded invitational program, and a promotional still of child actor Rickie Sorensen, who played Creighton Chaney (age 8) in the film. Copy belonging (presumed) to Rickie Sorensen, with his name in holograph pencil on a revised page. A loose biography of actor Lon Chaney...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, ca. 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. Copy belonging to producer Tony Bill, with his signature in black holograph ink at the top right corner: "Tony Bill exec. producer." Also included is a typed letter of provenance signed by Bill. A star-studded film in which a third-rate vaudeville duo decides to attempt a large...
N.p. N.p., 1962. Vintage oversize photograph from the Off-Broadway cabaret show "Phase 2," circa 1962. With the stamp of "Horizon" magazine on the verso, along with holograph notations crediting photographer Morton Shapiro, and noting the photographs inclusion in the January 1962 issue. French-American actress Lucienne Bridou would star in both the Broadway and film versions of "A Funny Thing Happened...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1956. Collection of 4 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1956 UK release of the 1955 US film. A musical romp about a solo Vaudeville entertainer who marries an Italian ballerina, and the seven children they have together. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Light toning, else Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1938-1965. Collection of three vintage promotional photographs of the African American harmony quartet, The Ink Spots. A look at a musical group that was not only internationally famous in its time, but greatly influenced multiple musical genres. The first sepia photograph dates to circa late 1930s, during the group's first decade, a promotional shot of the group.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1962. Three vintage oversize photographs from a circa 1962 performance from the pioneering improv group The Premise, one featuring founder and performer Theodore J. Flicker, one featuring original players James Frawley and Joan Darling, and one showing theatre entrance. Each with the stamp of "Horizon" magazine on the verso, along with holograph notations crediting photographer Morton Shapiro...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1962 film. Shown are Natalie Wood, who plays Gypsy Rose Lee in the film and here in full regalia, next to the real Gypsy Rose Lee. The real Ms. Lee is dressed more conservatively, but is holding a copy of her 1962 musical comedy album "Gypsy...