New York: Shubert Theatre, circa 1955. Original souvenir play program for the 1953 musical "Can-Can" composed by Cole Porter. This program likely from the mid-1950s touring company production of the play, starring Rita Dimitri, John Tyers, and Ronnie Cunningham. A self righteous judge threatens to shut down a Can-Can dance hall, but finds more trouble than he expected when he.....

France: Lira Films / European Trash Cinema, 1971. Original Program for the 1971 French film. A French detective thriller with noirish overtones, and Boisset's trademark violence. He would have his heyday in the 1970s, with "The Assassination" (1972), "The Common Man" (1975), and "The Purple Taxi" (1977). 4 pages, folded once, 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Very Good plus, with light.....

Cannes, France: N.p., 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival, the seventeenth one to be held, that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the name used until 1974 when it returned to.....

Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. With several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and black-and-white films stills and on-the-set images. Based on the powerful and influential wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, who conspired to kill him and was executed as a result. The classic adulterous.....

Hollywood: N.p., Circa 1927. Vintage program for the premiere of the 1927 silent film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. One of the most successful Hollywood Biblical epics, and the first film to debut at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The second installment in Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical trilogy, preceded by "The Ten Commandments" (1923) and followed by "The Sign of the.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage pressbook for the 1926 silent film. Laid in with the pressbook is a small bifold program from the film's showing at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. In the 18th century, a US merchant ship is forced to battle a band of Barbary pirates on the Mediterranean high seas. 9 x 12 inches. Eight leaves, side.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Vintage 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.....

Paris: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly" (1954, Carmine Gallone), "Les Diaboliques" (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot), US film.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage program for the Royal Premiere of the 1962 film at the Odeon Leicester Square on Monday, December 10. Laid in with the program is a small invitation to a party at the ballroom at Grosvenor House following the film. From the collection of noted British film producer John Palmer, who was production manager.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1926. Vintage program for the 1926 silent film. Included with the program is a seven-page booklet credited to story writer "Elton Thomas" (the nom de plume of actor Douglas Fairbanks), summarizing the plot of the film. After the death of his father at the hands of a bloody pirate gang, a nobleman infiltrates the.....

Belgrade: Avala Film, 1967. Original program for the international release of the 1967 Yugoslav black wave film. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film and reproductions of line illustrations. Wrappers text in French, with French, German, Russian, Spanish, and English text inside. Taking on the trappings of American crime and film noir, about a woman who is murdered by her lover.....

Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA, 1924. Vintage program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14, 1924. Contains a brief essay by von Harbou, and three additional short essays on the making of the film. Photo illustrated throughout with stills of characters from the films. Also included is a supplemental program.....

Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece—an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of.....

Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, many unique to this publication. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because of his Jewish origins. The issues from this era remain.....

Paris: Filmsonor, 1955. Original French program for the classic 1955 French film noir. This program produced by the film's distributor, Cinedis. With a stunning illustrated and textured front wrapper, making dazzling use of a two-color process in green-gray. Laid in are credits leaves featuring biographies on Henri-Georges Clouzot, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret, and Paul Meurisse. French text. Based on the.....

N.p. Caddo Company, 1930. Vintage program for the premiere of the 1930 Pre-Code film, which was famously held as a gala event at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.Howard Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production, a story about World War I combat pilots, today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Vintage international program for the English language release of the 1960 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman, printed by Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden. Adapted from the thirteenth century Swedish ballad, "Tores dottrar i Wange." Photo illustrated throughout. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, with director Bergman receiving.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Original Japanese program for the US film "The Great Gatsby." Full color wrappers, with black and white text and black and white and full color photos throughout. Text in Japanese. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and.....

New York: Filmarte, 1938. Vintage program for the US premiere of the 1937 French film, which opened at the Filmarte Theatre in New York on September 12, 1938. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema, a poignant look at nationalism, class differences.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously making him.....

London: Movie Publishing / Danjaq, 1983. Original souvenir program, printed in the UK, for the 1983 British-America film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color pages, on-the-set images, and biographies of the.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1926. Vintage program for the 1926 silent film. Based on the 1821 epic poem by Lord Byron, about legendary womanizer Don Juan. The first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system to provide a musical soundtrack and sound effects (but not spoken dialogue). 12 x 9 inches. Six leaves, side stapled. Near Fine, with light.....

Paris: Filmsonor / Mondex / Procinex, 1962. Original French program for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Le diable et les 10 commandements." Illustrated wrappers featuring esoteric cartoons by Vaissier, with original glassine. Contents of the program include film credits, synopsis, actor biographies, and advertisement campaigns; often these programs are illustrated throughout with still photographs from.....

London: Russflix / MGM, 1971. Original full-color film program for the 1971 film "The Boy Friend." Though not noted in any way, this copy belonged to screenwriter, director, and film ephemera collector Leonard Schrader. Hal Erickson: "The Boy Friend" began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was brought to America.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Vintage illustrated program for the 1979 film.Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming. Lewis Gilbert's third and final directorial effort in the James Bond franchise, and the eleventh film in the series overall, hot on the trail of the wildly successful "Star Wars" (1977). Roger Moore stars in his fourth role as the.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Vintage film program for the 1933 film. With a striking image of Dietrich on the front wrapper, and much detail throughout regarding the production. Based on the novel by Hermann Suermann and the play by Edward Sheldon, about a country orphan who goes to Berlin to live with her aunt and who becomes the model for.....

Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky, about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film.....

London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stapled illustrated self wrappers, 7 x 9 inches, 32 pages. Very Good.....

Budapest: Mafilm, 1967. Vintage Hungarian program for the 1967 film. Photo-illustrated with scenes from the film, including one large image on the entirety of the verso. Text in Hungarian. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production, "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in which.....

Paris: Theatre Marigny, 1965. Original French program for the "20th Night of Cinema," here under the original French title. A lavish illustrated magazine, with blue cord marker, featuring full-page advertisements for motor car companies, cosmetics (notably the Coty line of perfume, Imprevu), alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, galleries, televisions, salons, and refrigerators, produced to coincide with the gala held at the.....

Vichy, France: Self published, 1957. Original souvenir program, printed in France, for the June 1-15, 1957 film festival, the VIII Referendum Cinematographique International. The festival began in 1949 and was in essence a two weeks of filmgoing, with French-dubbed Italian, American, Russian and other international films, each reserved to its own day of screening and retrospection. Films listed in the.....

Nice: Gaumont-Palace, 1961. Vintage French program, and two invitations, for the 1961 film, here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1, 1961, generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP, for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, a Southwest France commune with the.....

France: Balcazar Producciones Cinematograficas / Four Star Television, 1965. Original Program for the 1965 French film. Italy's answer to the James Bond saga, this is the first of Giorgio (George) Ardisson's spy thrillers, two notables being "Agent 3/S3: Massacre in the Sun" (1966) and "Countdown to Doomsday" (1966). Two pages (front and back), 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Very Good plus.....

Rome: Albert and Charles Boni, 1951. Original Italian program for the 1951 film, based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. SIGNED by Vittorio De Sica at the bottom of the title page. One of the director's classics, pure visual storytelling, made just after "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) and just before "Umberto D." (1952). A gorgeous, oversize program with.....