George sidney director (26 risultati)

Poster. Condizione: Good. Measures 30 x 40 inches. Crease fold marks front & rear of poster. Rear of poster has some stains on fold marks. Biro writing on rear of poster. Else good.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 2000 re-release of the 1938 film, showing actors Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. Two former convicts meet while working at a department store and fall in love, but their relationship soon sours when one suspects the other of infidelity, leading him to return to a life of crime. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Noir.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1942 film, showing actors Russell Hicks, Blanche Yurka, Lee Bowman, and Mona Maris. Anxious to impress, a young naval lieutenant lies to his girlfriend that he is an expert code-cracker, leading her to convince her uncle to add him to a special unit formed to decipher coded messages. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1967 UK film. Based on the 1905 H. G. Wells novel, "Kipps," starring Tommy Steele as Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile. His grandfather dies and leaves him a vast wealth, prompting a sudden life change. 8 x 10 inches. Ink notation on the verso, and faint creases, else Near Fine. Hirschhorn, p. 389.…

Eight vintage photographs from the 1951 film, two promotional headshots of Joe E. Brown and eight studio stills, two of which have "PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE" stamps and layout annotations on the verso. Based on the 1927 musical, which was in turn based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel. A wildly popular MGM musical hit, wherein the daughter of the captain of the Cotton Blossom, a traveling show boat, falls for a roguish, unlucky gambler. Nominated for two Academy Awards. The definitive version of the musical, following adaptations in 1929 and 1936. Set in and shot on location in Mississippi. 8 x 10 inches. Nine, Near Fine with minor creasing in margins and edgewear. One, Very Good with significant chipping to top right corner. Two have stiffening coating on verso.…

Vintage press kit for the 1960 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing one oversize matte-finish borderless reference photograph, showing actors Cantinflas and Janet Leigh. A ranch hand goes to California to rescue a white stallion (which he considers to be his family) from the hotshot Hollywood director who has purchased it. The second American film of Mexican comedian and actor Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known simply as Cantinflas, in hopes of replicating the success of his US debut "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956). Shot in Mexico and Hollywood. Photograph Near Fine, folder Very Good plus, with faint foxing and soil to the folder.…

Vintage matte black-and-white double weight studio still reference photograph from the 1948 film. From the collection of actor Van Heflin, who played Athos in the film. Based on Dumas' 1844 serialized novel. D'Artagnan (Kelly) travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, and does so by dispatching the evil Richelieu's (Vincent Price) men, not once but twice. Countess de Winter (Turner) has her own agenda, ultimately leading to her execution, as the Musketeers are exonerated of their own death sentences. Nominated for an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall.…

Vintage borderless photograph of Jackie Gleason from the 1961 film. Based on the 1959 novel by Walter Tevis, about a small-time pool hustler who challenges a champion for a shot at the big time. Jackie Gleason famously did all of his own billiards shots, while pool legend Willie Mosconi served as a technical advisor and stand in for the other actors. Nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, and twice for Best Supporting Actor. Shot on location in New York, including the use of several actual pool halls. 7 x 9 inches. About Near Fine with some shallow light creasing to the corners. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US.…

Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1925 film, showing actress Constance Talmadge sitting at a piano. Based on Ludwig Fulda's 1902 play "The Twin Sister." A housewife and her visiting twin sister, a famed erotic dancer, switch places in order to teach the men in their lives a lesson. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. …

Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 British film noir, seen here under the title for its US release, "Payroll." Based on Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel, wherein a gang of crooks' plan to rob a local factory is complicated by the accidental murder of the getaway driver, leading the driver's wife to seek revenge. Set and partially shot on location in Gateshead, Whitley Bay, Rugby, Southwold, and Newcastle upon Tyne, England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. Selby UK. Spicer UK. …

Vintage reference photograph of actress Janet Leigh, in a brunette wig, relaxing on the set of the 1963 film. Stamps of The Associated Press and Le Parisien on the verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. An unsuccessful pop songwriter is convinced he can make his fortune if he can get recently drafted rock and roll star Conrad Birdie on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss his high school girlfriend goodbye. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.…

Vintage reference photograph of a supine Cary Grant surrounded by Jean Arthur, director George Stevens, and crew from the set of the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe on verso, here under the working title "The Talk of the Town." Political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is killed. Escaping prison, he hides out in former schoolmate (and sweetheart), Nora Shelley's (Jean Arthur) house, currently being rented to the newly arrived law professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Coleman). Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. Set in fictional Lochester, New England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).…

Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney, Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle, and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodds (who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film). Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso, a number annotated and circled in blue pencil (1, 2, 3 respectively), and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. Spicer, p. 403.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1957 film, showing actress Rita Hayworth. Loosely based on the 1940 musical, with book by John O'Hara, and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. A womanizing heel woos a wealthy widow in order to finance his dream club, but his budding feelings for a younger chorus girl get in the way. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in San Francisco, shot on location in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1952 film, showing actors Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Mel Ferrer, and Stewart Granger talking with director George Sidney and producer Carey Wilson on the set. Mimeo snipe and annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini, about a man's quest to avenge the wrongful death of his friend. Previously adapted in 1923 as a silent film, starring Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, and Lewis Stone. Set in 18th century France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.…

Vintage reference photograph of actors Ann-Margret and Jesse Pearson with director George Sidney and script supervisor Marshall Wolins on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures stamp on the verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award-winning stage musical of the same name, about an unsuccessful pop songwriter who becomes convinced he can make his fortune if he can get recently drafted rock and roll star Conrad Birdie on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss his high-school girlfriend goodbye. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1960 British film, showing actors Vanda Hudson and Jack Carson. A deranged plastic surgeon becomes the owner of a traveling circus, specializing in a "Temple of Beauty," transforming disfigured women into the glamorous stars of his show. Their beauty, however, comes at a price, and any attempts to leave the circus end in their gory demise. The third film in what critic David Price called production comany Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadian trilogy," preceded by "Horrors of the Black Museum" and "Peeping Tom" the previous year. Set in England and France, shot on location in England. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. …

Vintage reference photograph from the 1960 film, showing director George Sidney inspecting a chorus line of women's legs. Columbia Pictures stamp specific to the Dutch release on the verso. Based on Norman Krasna's 1958 Broadway play "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?" A mild-mannered chemistry professor falsely claims to be an undercover FBI agent in order to get back into his wife's good graces, capturing the attention of the FBI, the CIA, and the KGB in the process. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1945 film, showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra with then-child actor Dean Stockwell. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help a would-be film star make it big. The first of three films to pair Sinatra and Kelly, followed by "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "On the Town" (1949). Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, evenly toned, with light creasing at the corners.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 film, showing director Sidney Poitier and a camera crew filming a scene with Yvette Curtis on location in Trafalgar Square. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A recently widowed African American doctor and his daughter spend a month-long vacation in London, where he falls in love with an African ambassador's niece. Set in London. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1957 film. Loosely based on the 1940 musical, with book by John O'Hara, and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. A womanizing heel woos a wealthy widow in order to finance his dream club "Chez Joey," but his feelings for a nice young chorus girl get in the way. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in San Francisco, shot on location in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, California. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.…

Two vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs of Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke rehearsing on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe, "ORIGINAL A RENDRE PARIMAGE," "COPYRIGHT CAMERA PRESS LTD.," and a struck through, with manuscript pencil, "Holmes-Lebel" stamps on the verso. One contains an "impress" sticker on verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Unsuccessful songwriter Albert Peterson (Van Dyke) is convinced he can make his fortune and marry girlfriend Rosie (Leigh) if he can get recently drafted Rock and Roll star Conrad Birdie (Jessie Pearson) on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss high school girl Kim MacAfee (Ann Margret) goodbye. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. 1 - 9 x 12 inches, 1 - 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus, edgewear and creasing to far corners. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film, showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Cinema International Corporation. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help a would-be film star make it big. The first of three films to pair Sinatra and Kelly, followed by "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "On the Town" (1949). Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 noir antecedent, showing director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben and Paramount, along with an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches with wide margins. Near Fine. Spicer US Precursor.…

Vintage reference photograph of actors Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, and Jean Arthur with director George Stevens on the set of the 1942 film. Provenance label affixed to the verso. A political activist is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is killed. Escaping prison, he hides out in the house of a former schoolmate (and sweetheart(, currently being rented to a law professor. A romantic triangle soon develops. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Set in the fictional town of Lochester, New England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, lightly creased at the bottom left edge. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).…

Seven vintage keybook photographs from the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe and "Approved Advertising Advisory Council Apr 21 1942 Hollywood" stamp on verso of each. Political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is killed. Escaping prison, he hides out in former schoolmate (and sweetheart), Nora Shelley's (Jean Arthur) house, currently being rented to the newly arrived law professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Coleman). Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. Set in fictional Lochester, New England. 8 x 11 inches, images 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).…