Douglas sirk director (22 risultati)

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1943 film, seen here under the alternate title "Hitler's Hangman." With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. A dramatization of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi SS commander, by members of the Czech resistance, which resulted in the decimation of the village of Lidice by the Nazis as revenge. Set in Czechoslovakia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage color British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1955 US film. Based on W. R. Burnett's little-known 1954 novel, about a member of an Irish revolutionary society forced to become an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets a famous rebel named "Captain Thunderbolt," and becomes his second-in-command, "Lightfoot." A story set and shot on location in Ireland. 8 x 10 inches. Two tiny bruises, else Near Fine.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel, about a German soldier who returns home to find his family's house bombed and his parents gone. Shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with pinholes at the corners. Rosenbaum 1000.

Continuity & Dialogue script for the 1957 film. The guilt a fighter pilot feels over accidentally dropping a bomb on a German orphanage during World War II leads him to become a minister upon returning to the US. When this proves insufficient in assuaging his bad conscience, he decides to volunteer his services as a missionary in Korea, opening a large home for orphans in Seoul. Based on the true story of Colonel Dean E. Hess, a US Air Force fighter pilot turned Ohio minister who returned to the Air Force during the Korean War. As depicted in the film, the 1950 Chinese Communist takeover of Seoul led Hess to facilitate an airlift of hundreds of children from the orphanage to the sanctuary island of Cheju. The twenty-five children who appear in the film, moreover, are Korean children from the real Orphan's Home of Korea that Hess founded, and the gold flying helmet sported by Rock Hudson is the actual helmet Hess wore. Set in South Korea, shot on location in Seoul and Arizona. White titled self wrappers, noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper, noted as production No. 1819, dated OCTOBER 30, 1956, with credits for actors Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, and other members of the cast. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with light tearing and creasing, bound at the top edge with two gold brads.…

Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1957 film. With a single manuscript pencil notation on the front wrapper. The guilt a fighter pilot feels over accidentally dropping a bomb on a German orphanage during World War II leads him to become a minister upon returning to the US. When this proves insufficient in assuaging his bad conscience, he decides to volunteer his services as a missionary in Korea, opening a large home for orphans in Seoul. Based on the true story of Colonel Dean E. Hess, a US Air Force fighter pilot turned Ohio minister who returned to the Air Force during the Korean War. As depicted in the film, the 1950 Chinese Communist takeover of Seoul led Hess to facilitate an airlift of hundreds of children from the orphanage to the sanctuary island of Cheju. The twenty-five children who appear in the film, moreover, are Korean children from the real Orphan's Home of Korea that Hess founded, and the gold flying helmet sported by Rock Hudson is the actual helmet Hess wore. Set in South Korea, shot on location in Seoul and Arizona. White titled self wrappers, noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper, marked as production No. 1819, dated OCTOBER 30, 1956, with credits for actor Rock Hudson and other cast members. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered REEL THIRTEEN PAGE 10. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with some creasing to the rear wrapper, bound with two gold brads.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in lavender-colored cloth, without dust jacket as issued. Screenplay for Douglas Sirk's film. Less than 500 copies were printed in cloth. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 346 pages.

Vintage borderless satin-finish double weight reference photograph from the 1943 film, showing actors Patricia Morison, John Carradine, and Alan Curtis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A fictionalized account of the 1942 assassination of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich and the ensuing Lidice massacre. Director Douglas Sirk's first American production after fleeing Nazi Germany and changing his name from Hans Detlef Sierck. 9.25 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus, with light toning near the bottom portion of the photograph.…

Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer, Ross Hunter, bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine, with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess was a technical advisor for the film and the gold flying helmet Rock Hudson wears was his personal possession. A poster for "Battle Hymn" appears outside the movie theater in the 1959 pilot episode of The Twilight Zone, "Where Is Everybody?" Set in 1950s Westhampton, Ohio and Seoul, shot on location in Seoul, South Korea and Nogales, AZ. Navy full calf binding without paper wrappers as issued. Title page present, noted as Second Revised Final, with credits for screenwriter Charles Grayson. 137 leaves, with last page of text numbered 123-A. Multilith duplication, with pink, blue, white, revision pages throughout, dated variously between 2/29/56 and 4/23/56. Pages Near Fine, presentation binding Near Fine.…

Vintage linen backed keybook photograph of director Douglas Sirk and actor Jeff Chandler on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Similar to the Italian Peplum (sword-and-sandal) epics, this film centers a Roman centurion's (Jeff Chandler) attempts to prevent Attila the Hun (Jack Palance) from conquering Rome. Also features Rita Gam and a bit part by Frank Gifford. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Eight vintage full-color still photographs from the UK (country of origin) release of the 1958 film. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel, about a company of German soldiers on the Russian front during WWII. One of the soldiers is sent home, where, finding his home bombed, he struggles for his sanity and survival with the help of the daughter of a political prisoner. Set on the Russian front and in Germany during World War II, shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases, else Near Fine. Masters of Cinema 65. Davenport, p. 358. Hyams, p. 129.…

Two vintage US lobby cards for the 1957 film. One with a brief manuscript ink annotation to the border noting the name of screenwriter Daniel Fuchs. Based on James M. Cain's 1951 short story "The Modern Cinderella," following a young American who moves to Munich and begins an affair with a married symphony conductor. Set in Munich and shot on location in Salzburg, Austria and Munich, Germany. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, with light toning to the edges and overall fading and even toning.…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1957 film, showing actor Robert Stack. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1935 novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner. A disillusioned war hero now works as a barnstorming pilot at rural air shows, accompanied by his parachuting wife, young son, and plane mechanic. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Eureka Masters of Cinema 64. Rosenbaum 1000. …

Vintage studio still photograph of Douglas Sirk and Lauren Bacall on the set of the 1956 film, standing in the middle of stairway that endures much use in the course of the narrative. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder, a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, Zachary Smith Reynolds, heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy (Robert Stack) impulsively marries a secretary (Bacall) at his father's office, unaware that his best friend (Rock Hudson) is in love with her, with tragic results. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone, nominated for two more, including Best Supporting Actor for Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear, else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard, Histoirie(s) du Cinema.…

No Binding. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. An original Finnish first-screening poster for Written on the Wind (1956), the Universal Pictures melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk now widely regarded as one of the defining works of Hollywood's golden age of melodrama. Starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack (Academy Award nominated), and Dorothy Malone, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this performance. Printed by Piirtopaino Oy. Artist-signed in the plate. Standard Finnish A2, approximately 60.5 × 40 cm. Condition: Good. Cinema-used with several faults, folding crease to centre. Dismounting chip to top right corner with a half-inch tear below. Single staple holes at the remaining corners. Half-inch tear and two nicks to the left edge. Two further half-inch tears to the right edge. Half-inch tear at the bottom edge. Faint but clearly visible print-marked date and time just above the cast list at the bottom. Corners creased. Notwithstanding these faults, it remains a very attractive and genuinely scarce poster.…

Vintage reference photograph, with wide vertical right border and cropped bottom, of Douglas Sirk and Lana Turner on the set of the 1959 film. "Telegram and Gazette" stamp, dated "AUG 15 1958," "Associated Press," stamp and, descriptive newspaper clipping of photo, now separated, all on verso. Based on the 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst. Two single mothers-one white, one black-struggle to raise their rebellious daughters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in New York City, shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with two small closed tears in right margin and cropped bottom. National Film Registry.…

Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder, itself a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, Zachary Smith Reynolds, heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office, unaware that his best friend is in love with her, with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone, and nominated for two more, including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Light wear to the margins and pin holes, else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard, Histoirs du Cinema.…

Oblong-8vo. (100 : 150 mm). 1 p. Signed card of the German-born film director, with a portrait image affixed. From the collection of the late Kurt Schimmelpfennig, Düsseldorf. Sirk became particularly celebrated for visually sophisticated Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, including Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life.…

Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1959 film, showing Douglas Sirk directing actors Lana Turner and John Gavin. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst. Two single mothers-one white, one Black-struggle to raise their rebellious daughters. The second film adaptation of Hurst's novel, following the 1934 film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers. Set in Atlantic City. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry.…

Vintage studio still photograph of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1949 film noir. A wonderful photograph of the entire crew shooting a scene where Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight are parting at an airport. Sirk is standing on a crane support at the left, and cinematographer Charles Lawton, Jr. is seated just below. A key American noir, from an original screenplay by Samuel Fuller. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles, and notably in the Bradbury Building on Broadway, now an architectural landmark originally built in 1893 by Los Angeles mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and designed by George Wyman. In a custom, museum-quality frame, archivally mounted, with UV glass. 7 x 9 inches, borderless, with a studio stamp and a mimeograph snipe on the verso. Near Fine. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Three reference photographs from the 1956 film. Two with Universal-International stamps and printed mimeo snipes on the verso, and one with a National Film Archive stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder, a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, Zachary Smith Reynolds, heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office, unaware that his best friend is in love with her, with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone, and nominated for two more, including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear, else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard, Histoirie(s) du Cinema.…

Vintage press kit for the 1958 film. Includes a full-color pocketed folder with 17 black-and-white photographs from the film, a French newspaper clipping about the film, and a printed illustration of a soldier returning home. Three photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Notable among the photographs are two showing cast and crew members on the set, one of John Gavin holding his young children, and a portrait of Liselotte Pulver that has been INSCRIBED by Pulver at the bottom left corner: "Cordialement [Cordially] / Liselotte Pulver." The pocket of the folder notes additional materials provided, although these are missing from the kit. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel, set during World War II, on the Eastern Front. A German soldier returns home to find his family's house bombed and his parents gone. He begins to struggle to keep his sanity, and survives with the help of the daughter of a political prisoner. Shot on location in Berlin. Folder Very Good or better, with some wear to the folds, photographs Very Good to Very Good plus, with some wear, curling, and toning. Rosenbaum 1000. Signed.…

Five vintage photographs taken on the set of the 1958 film, including four studio still photographs showing director Douglas Sirk talking with actors Lisa Pulver and John Gavin, and one borderless photograph showing novelist, screenwriter, and actor Erich Maria Remarque. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Remarque's 1954 novel, about a German soldier who returns home to find his home bombed and his parents gone. Shot on location in Berlin. Studio still photographs 8 x 10 inches, borderless photograph 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus, several with light toning and wear on the edges. Rosenbaum 1000.…