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Vintage one-color Danish program for the 1949 film noir, here under the Danish title "Den Store Gatsby - Spritsmuglerkongen." Text in Danish. The first sound adaptation of Fitzgerald's masterpiece, which was filmed once before as a now-lost silent in 1926 under the auspices of Paramount's former incarnation, the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Done in a film noir style, and still considered by many to be the best of several screen adaptations, created at the point when the book's reputation was finally beginning to take hold. Set in New York. 4.5 x 6 inches. 4 pages, side-stapled. Near Fine, with faint edgewear.

Vintage program for the 1914 lost silent film, printed for the Grand Theatre of Butler, Pennsylvania, printed on the verso, with a dramatic pictorial center spread featuring two World Film Corporation elephant logos. Silent film star Clara Kimball Young's first film with World Film Corporation, re-released in 1916 with new intertitles under the title "Without a Soul," both now lost. A variation of both Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," wherein the caring and dutiful daughter Lola (Young), killed in a street accident, is revived by her scientist father using an electric-ray machine he invented, only to find she's returned as a soulless and heartless creature of the flesh. 5.5 x 8 inches, Bi-fold. Very Good plus, with a vertical crease, with light foxing and toning at the crease, and small closed tears at the top of the crease on both leaves.

Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1938 film, showing actors Margaret Early, Janet Shaw, Bette Davis, and Henry Fonda. In antebellum Louisiana, a strong-willed southern belle loses her fiancé as a result of her vanity and arrogance, and vows to win him back. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for Bette Davis, and for Best Supporting Actress for Fay Bainter. Shot on location in Louisiana. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, lightly age toned, with creasing at the corners.