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...

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...

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....

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 bumps, else Near Fine. Scarce.

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.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Original lobby card for the Quebecois release of the 1958 film "Anna Lucasta," a remake of the 1949 film directed by Irving Rapper, adapted from screenwriter Yordan's 1936 play. Lobby card number three in the set, with the Quebec Censorship board's approval seal to the top right corner. An early Eartha Kitt film with...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road," based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run," written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. Notable for its nearly all-black cast, "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent...

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...

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...

Montreal: Cooperatio Productions, 1964. Vintage Canadian black-and-white lobby card from the 1964 film. In original mailing envelope from "Office National du Film Canada," and "Trouble-fete" in holograph ink on the front. Handsome starring actor Rodrigues is seen in police accouterments, checking his perimeters. Lucien (Hamelin) is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics, inciting protests and fighting to change...

London: The Archers, 1947. Complete set of 8 UK color front-of-house cards from the first-run screening of the 1947 film. Each with the contemporary rubber stamp of Girosign, Ltd., on the verso. Front-of-house cards served the same purpose in the UK as lobby cards in the US, but were generally only produced for films shot in color. A very popular...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Original lobby card for the Quebecois release of the 1959 film "The Sound and the Fury," loosely based on the 1929 novel by William Faulkner. Seen here with the title painted over in black and rewritten in French: "Le Bruit et la Fureur," as was common practice at the time. Lobby card number eight in...

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...

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...

US: Clasa-Mohme / Azteca Films, 1955-1980. Collection of 67 vintage Mexican lobby cards for films released between 1955-1980. Included are lobby cards for 61 Mexican films or co-productions, and 6 international Spanish language films released in Mexico, all of which were distributed by either Clasa-Mohme or Azteca Films. Cards are full color and universally bright, illustrated or photo-illustrated, each with...