Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1927. Vintage hand color tinted lobby card for the 1927 silent film. Pictured are a curly haired Louise Brooks, looking past an oblivious Wallace Beery and toward a typically sly Adolphe Menjou. Based on the French play "L'homme en habit" ("The Man in Evening Clothes) by Andre Picard and Yves Mirand. Today considered a lost film. 11... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Original lobby card for the 1959 film "The Chaplin Revue," a re-release of three of Charlie Chaplin's earlier films: "A Dog's Life" and "Shoulder Arms" (both from 1918), and his final short film, "The Pilgrim" (1923). Lobby card No. 7 in the set depicts a scene from "Shoulder Arms," where the Tramp is a.... (read more)

England: ITC Entertainment, 1978. Collection of 7 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1978 British film. After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon into deep space, the Moonbase-Alpha and its several hundred inhabitants drift until a rescue party from Earth arrives. the commander of the space station sees the rescue party differently, as aliens hellbent on extracting radiation... (read more)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Eight vintage lobby cards for the 1974 film. One of the greatest crime films of the twentieth century and arguably a better film than its predecessor, Part II functions dually as both prequel and sequel in continuing the story of the Corleone empire and the corrupting influence of power. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Filmways Pictures / United Artists, 1964. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1989. Collection of 8 vintage full-color lobby cards from the 1991 film. This set dated 1989, two years before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. Of note is a "tasty" image of Hopkins' bloody mouth, and a shot of director Demme surveying his work, with many images not seen in the film. Based... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Complete set of 8 lobby cards for the 1972 crime film, "Across 110th Street." Because it is set in Harlem, this very underrated crime drama is often lumped with "blaxploitation" pictures of the same era. In truth it belongs to the great pantheon of gritty, violent police procedurals of the early 1970s--something of a.... (read more)

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White, about a unhappily married man who goes on a.... (read more)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1951. Lobby card for the 1951 film, Hitchcock's classic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's existential crime novel by way of Raymond Chandler's pulp sensibilities. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine with some light soil. Grant US. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Collection of five lobby cards for the 1980 film. Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book, about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady, Carolyn, and Jack Kerouac, with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road." One of the earliest feature films about central Beat figures. Shot on location in San Francisco. (read more)

Los Angeles: Studio Films, 1955. Complete set of 8 vintage two-color lobby cards from the 1955 film. Each of the lobby cards features one of the African American starring performers, and each card advertises the Poverty Row studio, Studio Films, and the short-lived film process "WonderColor," used to make it. A music revue that set the standard for the much... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Set of two vintage film lobby cards for the 1955 film. Loosely based on the 1898 novel by J. Meade Falkner. Fritz Lang directed the 1955 film about a young orphan sent to live with his mother's former lover. His new caretaker is morally ambiguous, dividing his time between leisurely activities and smuggling. Near... (read more)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Single lobby card for the 1942 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel "The High Window," here re-imagined as the seventh and final entry in Twentieth Century-Fox's series of films featuring detective Michael Shayne, created by Brett Halliday. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, with two pinholes to the center of the card, a.... (read more)

England: ITC Entertainment, 1975. Collection of 6 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1975 British-Canadian film. Based on Tom Ardies' 1974 novel, "Kosygin Is Coming." Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Shaver (Segal) is ensnared in a KGB assassination plot to kill a visiting Soviet Premier. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 35.5 cm). Light corner bumps, else Near Fine. Scarce. (read more)

Romania: Eve Productions, Circa 1970s. Two vintage oversize borderless black-and-white lobby cards from a 1970s Romanian release of the 1965 US film. Rubber-stamped on the versos MOTQRPSICHO [sic] FAVORIT, indicative of the Cinema Favorit in Romania, once the largest and most popular cinema in the country, and one that operated even under the then-Communist regime. One lobby card also bears... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Complete set of eight lobby cards for the 1947 film. Based on the Raymond Chandler's 1943 novel, his fourth book and the fourth Philip Marlowe adventure. An unusual and ambitious film noir, and Montgomery's final film for MGM. In a concept that originated with Montgomery, who directed, the entire film is shot from Marlowe's... (read more)

Culver City, CA: Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions, 1965. Collection of seven vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 US film. During the Civil War, an obsessed, glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers, Confederate POWs, and American Indian scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns... (read more)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Sanford Productions, 1972. Collection of eight vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1972 US film. Based on both the 1958 biography "Crow Killer" by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker, and the 1965 novel "Mountain Man" by Vardis Fisher, about a mountain man seeking vengeance against the Crow Indians who killed his... (read more)

Various cities: Walt Disney Pictures / HanWay Films, 1926-1967. Album of thirty lobby cards and photographs from thirteen animated films, all SIGNED or INSCRIBED by animation directors to fellow animator Les Gibbard. Lotte Reiniger,Norman McLaren, John Hubley, Arthur Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and four of Disney's famed "nine old men," Frank Thomas, Milt Kahl, Ollie Johnston, and Ward Kimball, all have... (read more)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Complete set of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1977 film. Based on Rossner's 1975 novel, in turn based on the real 1973 murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. Theresa (Keaton) is a schoolteacher for the deaf, who looks for men in bars to fulfill her violent, sexual desires. She finds Tony (Gere) and the... (read more)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1976 film. This set dated 1975, one year before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Robert De Niro and Jodie... (read more)

Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1936. Two vintage lobby cards from the 1936 film. The talented soprano daughter of an eccentric theatrical family is determined to live a quiet life with her fiance, though that would mean being unable to use her gift, until she is wooed into performing with her family in a traveling show and realizes her mistake. Very Good... (read more)

Paris: Les Film du Carrosse, 1969. Collection of eight vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1969 film noir. A late and important color noir, made at what was arguably the peak of Truffaut's success as a filmmaker, dedicated to one of his elders, Jean Renoir, and shot during the time he was deeply involved with lead actress... (read more)

Various cities: Various studios, 1951-1964. Collection of 49 vintage still photographs from various film adaptations of Tennessee Williams plays. All stills are black and white and US issue unless otherwise noted. Included are:A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Elia Kazan)1 press photograph of Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter, with TCF stamp and press notations on the verso. THE ROSE TATTOO (1955... (read more)