THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH – Vintage original 27 x 38″ (70 x 98 cm.) poster, Sweden. Lon Chaney, Loretta Young, Nils Asther, Gwen Lee, dir: Herbert Brenon, MGM. In the role of the circus clown who could not laugh, known as Pagliacci, Lon Chaney, in perhaps his finest film performance, ran the gamut in the story which spanned a 25-year period in the his life.  Regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors in both silent films and talkies, Lon Chaney  (Ap…

Alexa Foreman Interview For many years, Alexa Foreman worked with Walterfilm’s Woolsey Ackerman researching and producing a multitude of documentaries and on-air programing for Turner Classic Movies. She was Robert Osborne’s left and right hand in creating his on-air hosting segments and was the primary producer of the Turner Classic Movies on-camera archival interviews that told Hollywood’s history in the words of those who were there. Robert Osborne and Alexa Foreman on Turner Classi…

My company, Walter Reuben, Inc., actively buys movie and television scripts as well as movie memorabilia. It doesn’t matter what kind of movie or TV show it is: popular or obscure, low budget, indie film, or large studio spectacular. This includes horror movies, TV sitcoms, Oscar winning dramas or silly comedies. I can buy a few scripts or a large collection. Los Angles is Filled with Scripts People who work in the film and television industry, in a variety of capacities, may have valu…

Gordon Parks was a Black American who successfully wore many hats as photographer, composer, author, poet, writer and film director. He became prominent in the U.S. in 1940s through 1970s for documentary photojournalism —particularly with issues of civil rights, poverty and the status of Black Americans—and in glamour photography for Glamour Magazine and Ebony. His fashion photography was also published in Vogue from the mid 1940s to the late 197…

By Woolsey Ackerman Once a film has gone through its’ conception, various script drafts, pre-production, filming and post production, it is time for what many film makers see as the real work—- promotion! In the hey-day of the golden era of movies, each studio had a labor intensive, overly creative and overly worked department for the promotion, advertising and merchandising of each of their movies, as well as for their individual contract personalities.  The campaigns for th…