Frederick lonsdale play (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Very Good- dj. First Edition Thus. [slight deterioration to cloth at spine ends, light dust-soiling to top of text block, previous owner's signature on front endpaper, with same owner's small "ex libris" bookplate on front pastedown; jacket is lightly spotted, with small tears and minor paper loss at spine extremities, a bit of edgewear, one small closed tear at top of rear panel]. (4 B&W film stills) Photoplay edition to tie in with the 1929 M-G-M film adaptation of the Lonsdale play, a starring vehicle for Norma Shearer (her second talkie). She plays a charming Australian widow who's in league with a notorious jewel thief who's posing as her butler, while she's also being romanced by a British lord (played by Basil Rathbone). Norma Shearer appears in all four of the stills bound into the book, as well as on the front panel of the photographic dust jacket; Rathbone is depicted in just one, the frontispiece, in which he's in a clinch with Shearer. Never a studio to let a good property go to waste, M-G-M remade the film in 1937, with Joan Crawford.…

First Edition. Novelisation of the MGM talkie / play. First edition in the Detive Story Club small format. Elusive and fragile. Title page pasted at edge to front pastedown to secure gutter (see scan) otherwise a VG example in the rare original dustjacket which has some light chipping particularly to the head of the spine. protected in a removable mylar wrapper. Scarce.…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1937 film, showing Joan Crawford, William Powell, and Robert Montgomery. MGM stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1925 play. A beautiful American grifter and jewel thief posing as a wealthy widow seduces her way into London high society. Director Richard Boleslawski's final film. Set in London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned.…

Vintage reference photograph of actors Ralph Forbes, William Powell, Joan Crawford, Aileen Pringle, and Frank Morgan on the set of the 1937 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with the stamp of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1925 play. A beautiful American grifter and jewel thief posing as a wealthy widow seduces her way into London high society. Director Richard Boleslawski's final film. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, lightly and evenly toned.…