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JOHN GARFIELD / AWAKE AND SING (1936) by Vandamm

by Vandamm

Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm.) double weight photo, USA. Slight wear at edges, NEAR FINE. Stamped on verso by photographer, also with a 1938 date stamp, and a snipe of printed promotional text.
Portrait of John Garfield, then still under the name of Jules, with his co-star Phoebe Brand, who created their roles in the world premiere of Clifford Odets' groundbreaking play about a working class Jewish family in the Bronx. The affixed text refers to a road trip appearance by the cast for... Read more about this item

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£404.65

CUL-DE-SAC (1966) French pressbook

by Compton Films

Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Book London: Compton Films, 1966. Vintage original French pressbook, 9 x 12" (23 x 30 cm.) for the 1966 film. Oblong, saddle-stitched, two-color self-wrappers, near fine. Roman Polanski's third film, and second film in English, from a screenplay by Polanski and his frequent collaborator, Gerard Brach. Compared since its release to Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett in terms of tone and theme, Cul-de-sac is a psychological thriller of the first order, exploring themes of... Read more about this item

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£283.26

HALLELUJAH THE HILLS (1963) Set of 2 photos

by Vermont Prod

Set of two (2) vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos, USA. Peter Beard, Martin Greenbaum, Sheila Finn, dir: Adolfas Mekas.
Adolfas Mekas' first film, a romantic comedy about a young woman who is being wooed by two young suitors. It was one of the earliest manifestations of the still very young movement of New American Cinema in the 1960s, and serves now as a kind of time capsule of the beatnik counterculture of the time. Although the film won many critical plaudits at... Read more about this item

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£161.86

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' (1988) Theatre poster

by Schubert Organization

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print (African American theater) New York: Shubert Organization, [1988]. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) window card theatre poster, USA. Creased in places, VERY GOOD+. AIN'T MISBEHAVIN', a show based on the songs of Fats Waller, had a very successful run from 1978 to 1982. This revival, which incorporated the original Broadway cast of that first run, occurred between August 15, 1988 and January 15, 1989.

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£242.79

Vintage Sheet Music "I Had the Craziest Dream "

by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren

Writers : Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
Title: "I Had the Craziest Dream" from 20th Century Fox "Springtime in the Rockies"
Date : 1942
Publisher: Bregman, Vocco, and Conn, New York
Size: 9 by 12 inches
Comments : This vintage piece of sheet music has a front cover photos, done in maroon and green halftones, are stills from the movie Springtime in the Rockies. Showing Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Edward Everett Horton, dancers and the orchestra. Condition: This classic piece of movie... Read more about this item

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£6.47

GOLDEN BOY [1968] Theatre poster for London revival of Odets play ft Sammy Davis Jr.

by London Palladium

No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print London: [1968]. Vintage original 19 7/8 x 12 1/2"" (51 x 32 cm.) theatre poster, UK. Sammy Davis Jr. scored a great success when he premiered this musical, adapted from the Clifford Odets 1937 play, on Broadway in 1964. This poster is for a London revival of the show, FINE.

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£364.18

LEGS DIAMOND (1988) Theatre window card

by Mark Hellinger Theater

No binding. Fine. FIne Art Print [New York: 1988] Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster, USA. Peter Allen wrote music and songs, with a book by Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppori. FINE.

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£364.18

GOODBYE BROADWAY (1938)

by Universal

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27"" (103 x 68 cm.) one sheet poster, USA. Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Dorthea Kent, Willie Best, Donald Meek, dir: Ray McCarey; Universal. Lively caricature art highlights this poster for a story about a once-famous vaudeville and Broadway couple who arrive to play in a small conservative Connecticut town with a troupe of crazy performers. This low budget musical was a remake of the early talkie THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY which... Read more about this item

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£404.65

LINA WERTMULLER (1963-86) Poster archive

by Various

Collection of 11 vintage original 27 x 13" (69 x 33 cm.) locandina posters, Italy. Mostly with one horizontal center fold (as issued), one poster has notes on screening in blank area, NEAR FINE.Lina Wertmüller has had a distinguished career both as director and as screenwriter. She was one of the preeminent female voices that emerged in European cinema with her first feature, and the first woman nominated for Oscar as Best Director. This archive contains the quite scarce posters for her first four... Read more about this item

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£1,213.95

Scenes from an Imaginery Ballet a Suite of Five Pieces for the Pianoforte

by S. Coleridge-Taylor

Boston, Massachusetts: G. Schirmer. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1911. Soft Cover. Size : 9 by 12 inches Condition: This vintage piece of classic sheet music has dust soiling to covers. Light age toning to pages, repair to inside hinge front cover and first page, previous owner made small numerical pencil notations to music throughout. The rear cover has 3 coffee rings, and a tiny edge tear with a long split at the lower spine edge. The contents include Five Pieces: No. 1 in D; No. 2 in Bb;... Read more about this item

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£16.99

STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984)

by Samuel Goldwyn

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage original 41 x 27"" (104 x 69 cm.) poster, USA. John Lurie, Eszter Balint, dir: Jim Jarmusch; Goldwyn. Unfolded, with just a couple of minute nicks in the blank left margin, JUST ABOUT FINE. Jim Jarmusch's first feature film, a landmark, surreal comedy laiden with dead- pan humor. There were two different posters for the movie -- this one, with a scene at a frigid Lake Erie, and another from the film's finale in... Read more about this item

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£242.79

1917 Kromo Gravure Trading Card of Film Star Fannie Ward

by Kromo Gravure Photo Company

Detroit, MI: Kromo Gravure Photo Company. Fine. 1917. Photograph. Size: 3 1/2 inches by 2 1/8 inches Condition: This vintage film collectible is in fine condition with light edge wear, and light dust soiling to the back of the card, as shown. ; A Kromo Gravure Trading Card with Rounded Borders of Silent Film Star Fannie Ward These cards are believed to have been offered as premiums at local movie theaters and sold in 5 & 10 Cent stores and are highly collected today as vintage movie memorabilia.... Read more about this item

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£12.95

Karson' Magic Milk Can Magic Trick Instruction Sheet

by Karson's Xclusives

Springfield, Mass: Karson's Xclusives. Very Good. 1940. Single sheet. SIZE: 8 by 11 inchesCOMMENTS: A single sheet explaining how to do the Magic Milk Can trick and other ideas for the trick. CONDITION: Light creasing and dust soiling. 631240 / whbx 4

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£10.52

A Vintage Illustrated Souvenir Theater Program for William Collier and His Superb Company in "A Fool and His Money" from the Majestic Theater

by The Majestic Theater

Boston: The Majestic Theater. 1903. Wraps. Size: 10 1/2 by 14 inches. An antique 2 page souvenir theater program for the play "A Fool and His Money" at the Majestic starting Monday Dec. 28. This vintage program has photos, reviews and a story of the play. A very scarce piece of vintage Boston Theater memorabilia .Condition: This antique program is in collectible condition with dust soiling to covers. The program has been folded into quarters and the lower right quarter is more heavily soiled. There... Read more about this item

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£20.22

PORGY AND BESS (1935) Theatre Guild photo

by Theatre Guild

Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) double weight photo, USA. [New York: Theatre Guild, 1935] There are a few markings in blank margins for printing, typed descriptive label on verso along with a contemporary printing note in pencil, NEAR FINE. Depicted is the divorce scene, with Todd Duncan and Anne Wiggins Brown, who created the roles of Porgy and Bess. Next to them is J. Rosamond Johnson, in the role of the lawyer Frazier, and various cast members.

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£606.98

LINA WERTMULLER (ca. 1975) by Fiorenzo Niccoli

by Fiorenzo Niccoli

Vintage original 11 ½ x 8 ¼" (29 x 21 cm.) borderless double weight photo, ca. 1975, stamped by photographer Fiorenzo Niccoli, FINE.Lina Wertmüller is one of the major Italian directors and one of the preeminent woman directors of the 1960s and onward. She is the first woman to have ever received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Films such as THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI, LOVE AND ANARCHY, SWEPT AWAY and SEVEN BEAUTIES are all major parts of the Italian film canon.This is a portrait of her from... Read more about this item

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£606.98

LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, A (1973) Theatre script dated Mar 5, 1973

by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman (source)

Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Playing version 5 March 1973. New York: Harold Prince. Vintage original theatre script, USA. Brad bound in leatherette printed wrappers for Studio Duplicating Service, Inc. Quarto, mimeograph, [1], 73, [1], 49 pp., wear to yapped covers at edges and also near bottom (where there is some damage to a blank area), stains to title page, the rest of the text is... Read more about this item

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£809.30

SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM [SALÒ O LE 120 GIORNATE DI SODOMA] (1975) Set of 8 Italian fotobusta posters

by PEA

Set of eight (8) vintage original 18 x 26″ (46 x 67 cm.) fotobusta posters, Italy. Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini; PEA. Folded once vertically, in original printed envelope, Near fine or better.

Pasolini's notorious final film, loosely adapted from the Marquis De Sade's notorious novel THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM. In this film, Pasolini makes a direct link between fascism and various forms of sexual cruelty. It is, for many, exceedingly hard to take.

"The film focuses on four... Read more about this item

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£606.98

MY SISTER, MY SISTER (1974) Theatre window card

by Little Theater

Vintage original 22 x 14" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster, USA. Ray Aranha wrote this play, which received several awards, including an Obie for lead actress Barbara Montgomery. Woll, p. 112: "Moves backward and forward through the life of Sue Belle at ages six, twelve, and sixteen. As Sue Belle waits for her lover Eddie, she recalls her drunken father, her pious mother, and her prostitute sister." JUST ABOUT FINE.

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£526.04

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) Title lobby card

by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm.) glossy title lobby card, USA. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen; MGM. The quintessential MGM musical, the favorite of many with its lighthearted look at the movies' transition to ""talkies."" Great songs of that era highlighted the film. So popular has it become that it is now a major stage musical. Nice glossy paper card captures the... Read more about this item

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£606.98

GOSPEL AT COLONUS, THE (1988)

by Dodger Prod

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print New York: Dodger Productions, et al.. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) window card poster, USA. With various scratches and creases at edges and a few small marginal tears, VERY GOOD-. Morgan Freeman starred, along with the Five Blind Boys of Alabama and various other well-known gospel artists, in this musical stage adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, with music by Bob Telson and book and lyrics by Lee Breuer.

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£161.86

ANGELA LANSBURY / MAME ON BROADWAY (1966)

by United Press International

Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Minor wear, ABOUT FINE.Upon arriving from London in 1943, Angela Lansbury started her acting career as a leading character in the MGM film GASLIGHT. She was just 18, and for the next 20+ years played a great variety of characters on film and television.She conquered Broadway in 1966 with MAME, the Jerry Herman musical based on the novel (and film) AUNTIE MAME by Patrick Dennis. Written for... Read more about this item

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£242.79

GRIND (1985) Theatre poster

by Kenneth Greenblatt et al

No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print (African American theater) New York: Kenneth Greenblatt et al.: [1985]. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) window card theatre poster, USA. Mounted on archival artboard, NEAR FINE. GRIND is a musical play with a book by Fay Kanin, music by Larry Grossman and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, about the primarily African American cast of a burlesque house in Chicago in the 1930s, in which Ben Vereen starred. It was nominated for seven Tony Awards,... Read more about this item