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Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the British release of the 1979 US film. Rubber-stamped on the versos from the UK distributing company, Cinema International Corporation. An ex-boxing champ makes his way back into the ring to provide for his young son. 8 x 10 inches, with no borders as issued. About Near Fine.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1925 film. "Made in USA" stamp on the verso. Based on Olive Higgins Prouty's 1923 novel, about a lower-class woman who forsakes her own happiness so her daughter can rise in society. The first of three adaptations of Prouty's novel, followed by one in 1937, starring Barbara Stanwyck, and one in 1990, starring Bette Midler and John Goodman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, moderately toned. …

Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying manuscript notation on the verso. Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, about a young socialite and a millionaire, who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand, respectively. No known prints of the film survive, and it is considered lost. 8.75 x 7.75 inches, irregularly trimmed. Very Good plus. Diagonal crease to the top corner, with a short closed horizontal tear to one edge.…

Two vintage reference photographs from the 1915 silent film, one showing Edward Martindel and Mary Pickford, the other showing Martindel, Pickford, and Mildred Morris. Contemporary annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Years after abandoning his daughter to an orphanage, a wealthy painter attempts a reconciliation. The original film premiered in 1915, directed by Allan Dwan, but was destroyed in a fire shortly after its release, and is today considered lost. The film was re-made with the same cast, directed by John B. O'Brien, and released in 1916. One 8.75 x 8 inches, the other 10 x 8 inches. Good, edgeworn, with chips at two corners, moderately toned.…

Three vintage reference photographs from the 1940 film, a publicity photograph of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Bennett, a test photograph of Bennett, and a portrait photograph of Bennett. All three photographs with mimeo snipes on the versos, two with stamps crediting photographer Ray Jones, and one with a date stamp and a provenance stamp on the verso. 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. A group of American adventures journey deep into the South American jungle with two native guides in search of a lost treasure buried under an ancient Incan city. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Two vintage reference photographs from the 1926 silent film, one showing Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne on the stocks, the other showing actors Edna Lyons and Paulette Neville in costume, playfully dancing out of character between takes on the set. Mimeo snipes on the versos. The second film Gish made while under contract with MGM, still widely considered the finest screen adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic 1850 novel to date. Set in Boston. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better, lightly faded and slightly edgeworn, but with no loss.…