The ways of the movie business are strange sometimes, glorious often and opportunistic always. And if the audience must suspend belief, the dream merchants must in turn suspend their dignity. And the true movie star, to succeed, must often accept the role of object of veneration. So here we have this delightful artifact, a tiny waxen head ...
The Gaucho (the official full title of the film is Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho) is a 1927 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez set in Argentina. The lavish adventure extravaganza, filmed at the height of Fairbanks' box office clout, was directed by F. Richard Jones with a running time of 115 minutes. Fairbanks ...
So, while watching the truly incredible duels between Basil Rathbone and Errol Flynn in their 30s and 40s vehicles, or the thousands going at each other during the pitched battles of the Roman spectacles of the 50s, did we ever wonder how people didn't die with those sharp pointy untipped swords going at them? Of ...
Giant lobby card, beautifully framed, for Billy Wilder's film Irma La Douce. 1963, for an Atlantic City engagement. The image is of "Kiki, The Cossack" (actress Grace Lee Whitney). The piece is framed, 29w x 68h x 2d. Irma la Douce is a 1963 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, directed by Billy Wilder. It is based on the 1956 French ...
El tejedor de milagros ("The Weaver of Miracles") is a 1962 Mexican drama film directed by Francisco del Villar. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. It stars the immortal Pedro Armendariz. Price on request.
This looks like a delirious and delicious brew of noir crime and show-biz sparkles, and the poster is as good as seeing a movie. Hot hot hot. Mounted on linen. 29 x 39. Price on request. Cabaret Shangai (a.k.a. Cabaret Shaghai) is a Mexican drama film directed by Juan Orol. It was released in 1950 and starred ...
Richard MacDonald was a storied production designer, and, as this terrific gouache attests, a very fine painter. Executed for the 1975 film of The Day of the Locust, this production sketch for the film's set design captures the scene of a premiere at Grauman's and the atmosphere of 1930s Movieland with the very mixture of romance and realism ...
The Curious Case of Edward M Plunkett, or how to define this charming obsessive? Coming to New York in the 50s, like many young men he decided to remake himself into an artist and a man-about-town. Where his preoccupations and predilections landed him was somewhere between Edward Gorey (whose work his most closely resembles) and Florine ...
From the 1951 novel by poet and novelist Julio Sesto, starring Mary Esquivel, who was one hot number, directed by the prolific Juan Orol. A rough tough Western crossed with a hell of a floor show. Frame 32" x 42", poster 26" x 35" Price on request. Juan Orol was a "one man band" in his movies. In most ...
This film, popular enough to have a sequel, proudly proclaimed the participation of the great Mexican singer Javier Solis, billing him above the film's putative stars Antonio Aguilar and ex-Miss World Susana Duin, the first Venezuelan to win it by the way (and not the last!). Four terrific horses were also billed above the title. ...
A wonderful poster for the Mexican release of an American movie serial. Fabulously hallucinatory. The Phantom of the West is a 1931 American Pre-Code Mascot western movie serial and was the second all-talking serial they produced. Tom Tyler stars as Jim Lester, trying to prove that Francisco Cortez (Frank Lanning) is innocent of killing his own father. ...
This was 1938's The Fighting Devil-Dogs, a Republic Pictures serial that found a release in Mexico. As you can see, every expense was spared, but we bet it entertained the kids really well. One of its two leading man (a former shot-put champion and one of movie land's Tarzans in the the 30s), Herman Brix, broke ...
Acquired from her estate. 24" x 30" Unframed, unsigned, oil on canvas. Price on request. Marjorie Lord (born Marjorie Wollenberg; July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015) was a beloved American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on Make Room for Daddy and later Make Room for Granddaddy. Stage In 1935, at ...
There is a noir romance to certain artifacts, and this certainly possesses that Edward Hopper je-ne-sais-quoi, so why not keep your fine wine in it, since there aren't any letters arriving you might want to steam open? The guests all checked out long ago. 48" wide, 36" high, 10 1/2" deep. The cubby holes measure 5 1/2" x 3 ...
Celebrated for his animation backgrounds as part of the Chuck Jones team that jazzed up the cartoon world for good, Irv Wyner was also a very original painter. His watercolors show him to be one of the masters of the medium. A work of great charm and atmosphere, noirish and deeply American. Feels like a ...
A sense of the dramatic is rare in plein air painting but not unexpected in the work of a man who in the course of a long and storied career rose to the top of his profession as one of Hollywood's most brilliant production designers. A simple, slightly grimy urban setting is invested with life and ...
Even with a body of work as brilliant as this collection of Robert Boyle's watercolors we permit ourselves a few favorites, and this is one of them. it is rare that a watercolor packs so much "punch". And this is one of the most watery, the most fluid of the group. It is all in the ...
Robert Boyle made this delicate and enchanting watercolor of the stadium, that had just recently been enlarged for the Olympics. Art Measures 19.5" x 11.5", 27" x 20 " with frame. Price on request. One of Hollywood's greats, Robert F Boyle sourced his extraordinary achievements as a production designer in a life long practice of his art, going out and painting his ...
Famous as a Hollywood production designer, Robert Boyle's early work exhibits a magnificent eye and ability to penetrate to the essence of any scene before him, psychologically as well as pictorially. A formidable artist. Price on request.
The great production designer Robert F Boyle reveals himself here as one of the finest painters of the California landscape we have ever encountered. And certainly the most observant. Price on request.
From those with much to give, much is asked, and Hollywood was smart enough to ask the world of Robert F Boyle. His collaborations with Hitchcock alone secure his place as one of the best of the best, but to understand the source of his achievements, one has only to look his astonishing body of ...
This must have been painted during Robert Boyle's WWII stint in the Signal Corps. A sombre and insightful document of war-torn Europe. Hauntingly evocative and absolutely honest. The industrial suburb of a northern French city (Metz?) laid out under a winter sky. The walls display that eternal and ubiquitous French notice "Défense d'afficher" (Post No Bills). On his ...
A gorgeously painted scene by one of Hollywood's most legendary production designers. And, as you can see, one of California's finest painters. Here is the Colony when it was a getaway with nice shacks. Simpler times. There is a Bellows-like feel to this painting in its freedom and life and radical approach to light and ...
"Let's see: An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney." "Oh, I love John Boles!" "And the other one… let's see what it says in the description: Cora and Matt have tons of money and have spent a lot just to be accepted into New York society. The problem is that New ...
This sweet piece came from Lizabeth Scott's estate along with the rare Paid in Full poster. 19.5" w x 15" h. Matte print on board. Price on request. Bill Avery Bill Avery was born in Seattle, Washington. Without formal training, he learned photography hands on at Columbia Pictures. During World War II he was a combat cameraman/photographer. Upon his ...