Ernst lubitsch director (19 risultati)

VideoDVD. Condizione: As New. Disk very clean. Opened and watched once. Disk will ship in a poly bag for extra protection with cushioning to prevent disk coming loose from sprocket during shipping. UPC: 738329263621 Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 Pounds. Category: Film & Media::DVD; Inventory No: 035895. …

Publicity/press leaflet for the fim starring Betty Grable and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Single sheet 8" x 10" printed both side. Front illustrated, synopsis, cast and credits to rear. Folding crease with nicks to edges (no loss), tips of corners rubbed, otherwse V.g.

Two lobby cards from the 1962 re-release of the 1939 film. Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Stern Russian agent Ninotchka (Garbo) arrives in Paris for business and is transformed by Parisian love for the playboy Count Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas). Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1990. Set in Paris. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage linen-backed publicity portrait photograph of actress Florence Vidor from the 1928 film. Based on the 1908 play "Paul I" by Demitry Merezhkovsky, and the 1928 play "The Patriot" by Ashley Dukes. A dramatization of the final years of Emperor Paul I of Russia, following his increasing paranoia and madness in the face of murderous conspiracies to overthrow him from the throne. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine.…

Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 re-release of the 1934 film. Based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehár, about a count from a small European kingdom who must travel to Paris to stop the kingdom's wealthiest citizen from getting married and moving away. The third of five film adaptations of Lehár's operetta. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with pinholes on the margins.…

Softcover. Condizione: vg. First edition. Quarto. 11.5x9". Unpaginated [6]. B/w photo-illustrated stapled wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. The publication is an issue of the of the promotional supplement to the German weekly, Illustrierter Film-Kurier, promoting the German release of the 1930 American musical-comedy film "Monte Carlo", directed by Ernst Lubitch, produced and distributed by Paramont Pictures. The film which stars Jeanette MacDonald and Jack Buchanan was hailed at the time as a great example of the then relatively new musical film genre. The film notably includes the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon", composed for the film, by Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, and W. Franke Harling. The booklet is profusely illustrated throughout with finely printed b/w photogravure images and photomontage depicting scenes and characters from the film. Text throughout, including cast and crew credits, in German. Wrappers with minor creasing and rubbing to extremities. Interior with some light horizontal creases to a few pages. Light stains on the last page, with images mostly unaffected. Wrappers and interior in very good condition overall. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar.…

Softcover. Condizione: near fine. First edition. Large quarto. Approx 11.5x8.5". Unpaginated [6 pages]. B/w photo-illustrated stapled wrappers, with black and white lettering on the front cover. The publication is issue #1124 of the of the promotional supplement to the German weekly, Illustrierter Film-Kurier, promoting the German release of the United Artists film "Eternal Love", starring John Barrymore and Camilla Horn. Directed by acclaimed German-American émigré Enrst Lubitsch, the silent film was itself an adaptation of the Swiss-German novel "Der König der Bernina" by Jakob Christoph Heer originally published in 1900. The story is set in the Swiss Alps in the early 19th century and tells the tale of two lovers struggling to escape their loveless marriages. The booklet is profusely illustrated throughout with b/w photogravure images and photomontage, depicting scenes and characters from the film. Text throughout, including cast and crew credits in German. Interior with a few minor smudges. Wrappers and interior in near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. Quite Scarce.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film musical, showing Maurice Chevalier and Charles Ruggles saluting a smiling Claudette Colbert. Basd on Hans Müller-Einigen's 1905 novel "Nux, der Prinzgemahl," previously adapted as an operetta by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Dörmann in 1907. A lieutenant is obligated to marry a socially inept princess after she mistakenly believes he has winked at her instead of his lover. The first of three films directed by Ernst Lubitsch to star Miriam Hopkins. Considered lost for many years until a print was discovered in Denmark in the 1990s. Set in Vienna. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1940 film, one with "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1937 play "Parfumerie." Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) is the new employee at the Matuschek and Company store, and Alfred Kralik (James Stewart), their best salesman, can't stand each other, unaware they're falling in love through the post as anonymous pen pals. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1999. Set in Budapest. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with pinholes at corners, one with two small pieces of paper tape at top pinholes on verso. Rosenbaum 1000.…

Two vintage reference photographs from the 1925 film, showing actress Irene Rich. With the stamp of American Weekly and a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Oscar Wilde's 1893 play, about a society woman determined to unveil her husband's imagined affair. Set in London. One 8 x 10 inches, one 7 x 9 inches . Very Good plus.…

Three vintage postcards from the 1927 silent film. Based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's 1901 play "Old Heidelberg," about a prince who falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter when he travels to Heidelberg to attend university. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Two Near Fine, one Very Good plus, with a small chip on the bottom right corner.…

Vintage black and white publicity photograph of actor Monte Blue shining his shoes on the set of the 1926 Ernst Lubitsch film. With an annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso attesting to same. Based on the 1872 play "Le Reveillon" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. A married man living in Paris discovers that his old flame, a free-spirited, flirtatious woman, has moved in next door. Lubitsch's penultimate silent film. Monte Blue established himself as popular male lead during the silent era in "Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Intolerance" (1916), and unlike many silent-era actors, transitioned with ease and success into the sound era beginning in 1927, with this film, "White Shadows in the South Seas" (1928), and "Key Largo" (1948). German-born director Lubitsch moved to the US in the early 1920s, contracted by silent film starlet Mary Pickford to direct "Rosita" (1923). The film proved a substantial hit for both Pickford and Lubitsch, and kicked off the director's successful career in Hollywood, where he became known for "the Lubitsch touch," a catchall for his benign, elegant comedies of manners, most notably "Trouble in Paradise" (1932), "Ninotchka" (1939), "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940), and "Heaven Can Wait" (1943). Set in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with brief wear to the top left and bottom right corners.…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1937 film, showing actress Marlene Dietrich provocatively smoking a cigarette. Based on Melchior Lengyel's 1932 play, about a love triangle between a woman, her diplomat husband, and a charming traveler. 8 x 10 inches. Fine.

Vintage borderless matte-finish reference photograph from the 1923 silent film, showing actress Mary Pickford in costume as the titular Rosita. With Pickford's autograph stamp on the lower right portion of the recto: "Cordially / Mary Pickford." With the insignia of Knute Olaf Rahm, Pickford's personal photographer, from the negative at the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on the 1872 opera "Don César de Bazan," in turn based on the 1844 novel by Philippe François Pinel, about a peasant singer in Seville who captures the heart of the king. 6.5 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus, with light age toning and wear.…

Vintage reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch from the set of the 1938 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1921 French play "La Huitieme Femme de Barbe-Bleue" by Alfred Savoir. Previously Filmed as a silent film in 1923, now lost, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gloria Swanson and Huntley Gordon. The first of many collaborations between screenwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Nicole (Claudette Colbert) marries the wealthy American businessman Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper), only to learn he has been married seven times before, and she is determined that there will not be a ninth. 8 x 10 inches. Faint diagonal crease near top, else Near Fine. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography, 1934-1942.…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1937 film, showing actress Marlene Dietrich. Brief annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Melchior Lengyel's 1932 play, about a love triangle between a woman, her diplomat husband, and a charming traveler. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film, showing director Ernst Lubitsch in conversation with actors Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert on the set, between takes, with a camera crew in the foreground. Based on the 1921 French play by Alfred Savoir. After discovering her multimillionaire fiance has already been married seven times, the daughter of an impoverished marquis decides to develop her own strategy to lock him down. The first of many collaborations between screenwriters Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, including "Ninotchka" (1939), "Ball of Fire" (1941), "The Lost Weekend" (1945), and "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). Set in France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films.…

Vintage wide reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch playing piano on the set of the 1942 film. Remade in 1983, directed by Alan Johnson, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Carol Lombard's final film, having died in an airplane accident during post-production. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as Joseph and Maria Tura, husband and wife thespians in Nazi occupied Warsaw, who inadvertently become part of the Resistance and must utilize every acting trick in the book to retrieve a list of Polish Resistance fighters from a German spy. Set in Warsaw, immediately before and during the 1939 German invasion. 10 x 8 inches (image 4.5 x 3.75 inches). Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography, 1934-1942. Criterion Collection 670.…

Postcard(s). Condizione: vg- to near fine. First edition. 3.5x5.5" each. This is a collection of 10 colorized photo-postcards from Ernst Lubitsch's musical film "The Love Parade" (1929), released by Paramount Pictures. Issued to coincide with the film's April 1930 Spanish premiere, these glossy postcards display scenes from the film and feature stars Maurice Chevalier (as Count Alfred Renard) and Jeanette MacDonald (as Queen Louise). This early sound film, based on the 1903 play "Le Prince Consort" by Leon Xanrof and Jules Chancel, was a wildly successful and ushered in a new era of classic Hollywood musical films in the "talkie" era. The film was nominated for 6 academy awards, including best actor for Chevalier and best director for Lubitsch. Each postcard is captioned in Spanish and numbered below the image. Publisher's ink stamps on the versos. Light foxing and/or water stains on the versos of the postcards. Images clean and bright. Cards bowed a bit. Cards in overall very good- to near fine condition overall.…