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Movie Posters => Movie Posters - Latest Acquisitions => Topic started by: okiehawker on April 02, 2020, 07:31:21 PM
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Sure, you can spend a lot of money buying a beautiful poster. Though, does it really get any better than this: Karloff by Freulich. Okie
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Nice!
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The movie Supernatural was released this month on April 21, 1933. It's a pre-code horror film from Paramount that's definitely worth watching. This original release photo of a disturbed/possessed Carole Lombard really jumped out at me in one of Bruce's recent auctions. It's still in "pay and hold", though I wanted to go ahead and share as the movie's anniversary is in a few days. The photographer is not stamped on the back. What are your thoughts on who might have taken this photo? My best, Okie
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That's a stunner for sure, Okie. A face to die for. Congrats!
The movie Supernatural was released this month on April 21, 1933. It's a pre-code horror film from Paramount that's definitely worth watching. This original release photo of a disturbed/possessed Carole Lombard really jumped out at me in one of Bruce's recent auctions. It's still in "pay and hold", though I wanted to go ahead and share as the movie's anniversary is in a few days. The photographer is not stamped on the back. What are your thoughts on who might have taken this photo? My best, Okie
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Great pic, Okie! I never watched Supernatural but always wanted to. I should check out if it's available on streaming somewhere.
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Thanks for letting me know you like this still of Lombard as well, Chris and Antoine! I sure enjoy vintage photo surprises like this. Now, I wish I knew the photographer. It seems to me early Paramount stills you would think would have a photographer credit on the back often do not. Okie
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That Lombard still caught my eye too. Great pick-up!
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Carole Lombard has always had a special place in my heart, so that still really resonates with me. What a great image.
Been a while since I posted. Haven't had much to post due to life circumstances. Recently picked these three up though.
Been looking for a nice example of this one at a reasonable price. Got this one from Heritage a week ago. The far tougher advance version and I got it at the price of the regular poster. Very happy with it.
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These next two I picked up for likely resale. From the estate of Bud Abbott, his personal bound scripts for Buck Privates and Abbott And Costello Meet The Killer Boris Karloff.
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Nice! I was going to buy it but I can never remember to pre-bid at Heritage at 7:59PM PST on Sunday. Forgot last night, forgot for the last 6 weeks, even though I check a few hours before and I always have a dozen items on my list. I get busy with other things, and then it's 8:20. It was a steal, for sure.
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Very cool scripts from a comedy master, Ratzkywatzky! Did Bud Abbott write notes inside the scripts? Okie
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Dracula! 1931! Spanish Renfield, Pablo Alvarez Rubio, inscribed and signed original still! I'm so happy to have this still that I'm having trouble controlling my exclamation points!!! In his inscription, Rubio mentions both the magazine to which this still was dedicated and the movie Dracula, too! I'm so excited this still made it through time. According to multiple sources, Spanish Dracula was released this month in New York City on April 24, 1931, 89 years ago this Friday. Looks like there was also a premiere in Havana, Cuba, on March 11, 1931. I really enjoyed Rubio's Renfield and was impressed with his skill in the role. What did you guys think? Also, I included an image from the magazine Films Selectos (fortunately, the magazine was included with the still) from June 11, 1932, with an article on Rubio and an image of this signed still. I don't know what happened these last few months with me and finding stills I couldn't resist. Holy Moly! Okie
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Congratulations Okie... Love that feeling of scoring big time thumbsup.gif
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Congratulations Okie... Love that feeling of scoring big time thumbsup.gif
Thanks Steve and Starling! I don't have a lot of stills, though I've heard their sweet voice of late. Okie
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Here are the two I got in Bruce's Tuesday major auction. I really, really like the movie The Black Swan and thought this 3 sheet had a fantastic stone litho swashbuckling image! I admit I have never seen The Healer, though the beauty of the stone litho of Karen Morley sold me right away. What did you all perhaps get? Okie
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From Bruce’s recent auction for my “strong women characters in early cinema*” collection.
*Catchier name recommendations appreciated.
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These are 2 stunning pickups, Okie! Congrats!
I didn't buy anything in that auction because everything was linenbacked. Otherwise, I would have made a bid for Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman. I would also have bid on The Big Clock, as I love that movie and recently read the book on which it was based. As a side note, this is something that I've lately been doing to occupy myself during confinement due to Covid19: I started reading books that were the inspiration for some of my favorite films, such as Night of the Hunter, In a Lonely Place, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Rebecca, Psycho, Village of the Damned, etc... It's been really fun!
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Great idea and great list to get started with! I can also recommend Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett, which inspired a great many films. I went on a Hammett and Chandler binge a while back and do not regret it.
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Antoine: The Big Clock poster was pretty darn cool! Yeah, reading the books for movies is a great idea, though I have to separate them in my mind as they can be so wildly different from each other. Also, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler (Jim Thompson, too) are such fun authors to read regardless of movie adaptation quality, eh?! Linen doesn't bother me on older posters, large posters, and very rare posters.
Matt: I'm so happy you got The Avenging Angel! I really think the design is superb. I was very tempted on it as well.
Okie
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Matt, I did read Red Harvest several years ago, back when I was on a Dashiell Hammett kick and read The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and The Dain Curse, all of which are excellent and were adapted into great movies except for the last one which was made into a TV series. I also went on a Chandler binge over a decade ago and read every single one of his Philip Marlowe novels, which I greatly enjoyed.
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Very nice Okie
The movie Supernatural was released this month on April 21, 1933. It's a pre-code horror film from Paramount that's definitely worth watching. This original release photo of a disturbed/possessed Carole Lombard really jumped out at me in one of Bruce's recent auctions. It's still in "pay and hold", though I wanted to go ahead and share as the movie's anniversary is in a few days. The photographer is not stamped on the back. What are your thoughts on who might have taken this photo? My best, Okie
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Dracula! 1931! Spanish Renfield, Pablo Alvarez Rubio, inscribed and signed original still! I'm so happy to have this still that I'm having trouble controlling my exclamation points!!! In his inscription, Rubio mentions both the magazine to which this still was dedicated and the movie Dracula, too! I'm so excited this still made it through time. According to multiple sources, Spanish Dracula was released this month in New York City on April 24, 1931, 89 years ago this Friday. Looks like there was also a premiere in Havana, Cuba, on March 11, 1931. I really enjoyed Rubio's Renfield and was impressed with his skill in the role. What did you guys think? Also, I included an image from the magazine Films Selectos (fortunately, the magazine was included with the still) from June 11, 1932, with an article on Rubio and an image of this signed still. I don't know what happened these last few months with me and finding stills I couldn't resist. Holy Moly! Okie
You know what's good, Okie!
Congrats on the still
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From Bruce’s recent auction for my “strong women characters in early cinema*” collection.
*Catchier name recommendations appreciated.
You are always up to some interesting shit Matt... notworthy.gif
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You are always up to some interesting shit Matt... notworthy.gif
Not just pretty faces either!
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Thanks Matias and Mahmduf! Man, I love those early chillers! Okie
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Not just pretty faces either!i
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That's what I mean. You're the man!
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Great pick ups Matt! Class all the way bed1
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From Bruce’s recent auction for my “strong women characters in early cinema*” collection.
*Catchier name recommendations appreciated.
I’m late, but those two pick ups are lovely. That collections sounds very interesting...are you going to exhibit/share more one day please? :)
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These are 2 stunning pickups, Okie! Congrats!
I didn't buy anything in that auction because everything was linenbacked. Otherwise, I would have made a bid for Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman. I would also have bid on The Big Clock, as I love that movie and recently read the book on which it was based. As a side note, this is something that I've lately been doing to occupy myself during confinement due to Covid19: I started reading books that were the inspiration for some of my favorite films, such as Night of the Hunter, In a Lonely Place, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Rebecca, Psycho, Village of the Damned, etc... It's been really fun!
What did you think of the book Night of the Hunter, Antoine? Okie
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I’m late, but those two pick ups are lovely. That collections sounds very interesting...are you going to exhibit/share more one day please? :)
None of my "collections" are very well defined and rarely are they thought out ahead of time. Just kind of feelings I go with over time...
That said, with this "collection" I've been driven by the realization that early film had some amazingly strong women characters. Many of them straight up women action heroes! Instead, with the rise of the studio system in the US and Facism in Europe after WWI, women were relegated to damsels in distress for much of the rest of the history of film. Sure, there were strong women in Film Noir, but only if you were a bad girl. You could maybe argue Barbarella was the start of the change. But it almost wasn't until Ripley in Alien that you get back to where film was already at 100 years ago! Can you imagine if little girls had role models like these to look up to for the last 100 years? Sigh.
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Matt,
I have a similar collection about women of cinema, not limited to very early cinema (though have posters from the era) but certainly does not include post 1970, and two of my favorites are these Rene Peron maquettes (Frau im Mond is a very recent pick up) for these two classics.
Congrats on the new pieces and good luck collecting more!
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Okie, the book Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb is excellent, a great work of fiction even apart from the fantastic film that it inspired. I highly recommend it.
Harry, love those early posters featuring strong women you have!
Seckin, those maquettes by Peron fascinating. I love that artist by the way, especially his Art Deco poster for the style B of the first French release of King Kong.
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Thanks my friend, I am a big fan of that King Kong poster, too. Great art deco graphics.
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Thanks my friend, I am a big fan of that King Kong poster, too. Great art deco graphics.
Wow, Seckin, those maquttes are really great! Cool poster designs. Okie
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Hello Okie,
Thanks. Peron was a great designer and one could only wish if a poster copy of either of these could be found. That would be great.
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Always love to see new posts from Sami - thanks for sharing!
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Thank you my Crowzilla, thanks a lot. :)