James cruze (22 risultati)

Condizione: Very good. - Small quarto [ 6 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide], color pictorial self-wraps. 8 stapled pages. Profuse color illustrations. The page corners are slightly bumped. There is a light crease to the last leaf & some light soiling to the last page. There are small stains around the staples on each page. The i…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. 7" x 4 7/8"; very good (old folds; minor signs of handling). 4 pages, illustrated with 4 scenes from the film. Stamped on the back: "Galloway Hall Saturday Dec. 20, 1924." Galloway Hall was on the campus of Wilberforce University, founded in 1856, the nation's oldest black university. Rare thus…

Draft script for the 1928 film. An early sound film, today considered lost, released with no dialogue, but with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, using sound-on-disc and sound-on-film processes. Based on John McGowan's 1927 play, about a cocky small-time acrobat who marries a talented dancer, then struggles with re…

Stapled Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good+ binding. "The Covered Wagon" is considered the first great Western epic in movie history, establishing a number of cliches that became staples. Very nice copy of the booklet that "has been prepared to present to the public some interesting facts in connections with the production of this…

Vintage double weight matte portrait photograph of actress Fritzi Ridgeway to publicize the 1923 Western film. With a mimeo snipe to the verso, along with the stamps of Paramount Pictures and photographer Eugene Robert Richee. Based on the 1915 novel, about a posh English valet who is forced to assimilate into a small town in th…

Vintage borderless reference photograph of director James Cruze with cast and crew members on the set of the 1924 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1925 play by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. A showgirl decides to accept the overtures of a lecherous theatre promoter, only to fall in love with an…

Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1925 film, showing then-US vice president Charles G. Dawes visiting the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. In 1860, a gambler-turned-rider for the Pony Express learns of a secret plan to aid the Confederate cause. Shot on location in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Appro…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. ("Clarence Thomas") in green fountain pen ink on James Cruze, 6530 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California letterhead, May 9, 1932. 7 1/4" x 10 3/8"; 1 page; very good (old mailing folds greatly exaggerated by the scanner; minor signs of handling); 1932. To Mr. Sharp Las Palmas and Sunset Corp.…

No Binding. Condizione: Fine. Hollywood, February 6, 1928 (he was elected on February 13, 1928). Printed "Application for Membership" in The Masquers; signed by Gaston Glass (the proposer) and Wylie Mather (who seconds the application; not signed by Cruze). Oblong 8vo, 1 page. Fine. Cruze (1884-1942), Utah-born actor and directo…

Photograph. High quality PHOTOGRAPH of noted silent film director James Cruze. (11" X 13 1/2") Image is virtually fine, with a dime-size chip at uppermost lefthand corner of white margin. Smaller chip at lower lefthand white margin & a 1"-inch tear at righthand margin, penetrating about 1/4"-inch onto image. From the personal co…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. ("Jim Cruze") boldly penned in black fountain pen ink on vintage tan album leaf (with bold autograph of actor Adolphe Menjou on the verso). 5 3/4" x 3 1/2". Very good. ca. 1920's. Together with a vintage original photograph (not signed) of a 1/2 length portrait of a youthful James Cruze wearing…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. ("Jim Curze") in black fountain pen ink on 3/4 length youthful portrait of James Curze wearing a sport jacket, white shirt, looking into the camera. Photograph is on heavy weight stock; matte finish; 9 1/4" x 11 3/4"; very good (minor signs of handling), ca. 1925. Signed and inscribed to Dr. Mc…