Various cities: Various studios, 1970-2000. An archive of 7 lobby cards, 10 pressbooks, and 2 press kits from 15 contemporary films with prominent African-American themes, characters, or cast members, with the bulk of the material dating from the late 1970s. This archive includes lobby cards, press kits, and pressbooks from 15 films, including "The Greatest," "The River Niger," "Mahogany," "Stir.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1974. Lobby card from the 1974 film, an early and unusual entry in the American neo-noir canon. Based on the 1937 novel, a hard boiled classic by proletarian writer Edward Anderson. Robert Altman made almost no mistakes in the 1970s, and this was one of the many high spots. The director, along with novelist-screenwriter Calder.....

Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Six original lobby cards for the 1970 film, "Husbands," directed and written for the screen by John Cassavetes and starring Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara. Cassavetes, Falk, and Gazzara play three old friends brought together by the death of a mutual pal, each of whom enters into a subsequent reconsideration.....

Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1916. Vintage lobby card for the 1922 Republic Pictures re-release of the 1916 film short. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 35.5 cm). Matte finish. Easily Near Fine, with one faint stain at the right margin, no pinholes.

Various cities: Various Publishers, circa 1957 - 1967. A collection of 10 original lobby cards for the Mexican releases of nine films directed by or featuring Charlie Chaplin. Highlights of this bright, charming collection include lobby cards for the Mexican releases of Chaplin's "Limelight," "King of New York," and "The Circus," as well as two variants for "The Chaplin Revue,".....

Paris: Cinedis, 1960. Original black-and-white photographic lobby card from the 1960 film, "Testament of Orpheus," Jean Cocteau's final work in the cinema. The last film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy, following "The Blood of a Poet" (1930) and "Orphee" (1950). The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself, as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he.....

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.....

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.....

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......

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Vintage lobby card from the US release of the 1942 film "Saboteur." An high spot among Hitchcock's early thrillers, and the director's only collaboration with author Dorothy Parker, who contributed to the screenplay. This particular film included much more location shooting than most of the director's pictures, including Boulder Dam, locations in New York.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1960. Collection of five vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1960 US film. With the stamps of a French distributor on the versos. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career, nominated for four Academy awards, including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination, and a key film in expanding allowable depictions.....

London: Thorn EMI, 1985. Collection of 10 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1985 British-Australian film. Based on Daniel Carney's 1982 novel, "The Square Circle," and sequel to "The Wild Geese" (1978). A group of mercenaries are hired by a broadcasting company to "rescue" a Nazi war criminal. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 35.5 cm). Light corner.....

London: Kentwood Productions / Allied Artists, 1956. Vintage front-of-house card for the 1956 British film noir, tinted green as issued. Pictured are the busty Diana Dors and Yvonne Mitchell in the midst of having a party. Released in the US as "Blonde Sinner." 11 x 14 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.

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.....

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.....

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.....

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......

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Paramount Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Warner Brothers / United Artists, 1939, 1941, 1950, 1956, 1968. Collection of six lobby cards amounting to a brief tour of the distribution of American cinema throughout Mexico. Featured are six items representing five films made 1939-1968 by Hollywood studios. Key to the collection are two lobby cards for Victor Fleming's.....

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1974. Collection of seven vintage lobby cards from the 1974 film. One of the cards has been SIGNED by star Jim Brown on the recto. "Three the Hard Way" sees three of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era uniting for the first time to stop white supremacists from unleashing a poison that only kills African.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1945. Original complete set of 8 lobby cards for the 1945 film, based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus. Lightly soiled with pinholes, but still bright.

Paris: Les Film du Carrosse, 1969. Collection of seven vintage lobby cards for the US release of the 1969 French film. 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.....

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 annotations on the verso. THE ROSE TATTOO (1955.....