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WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? (1932)

Vintage original 14 x 11″ (35 x 28 cm.) lobby card, USA. Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Louise Beavers, dir: George Cukor, RKO. The famous predecessor to the A STAR IS BORN legend, re-made three times and here directed by George Cukor, who would make the 1954 version with Judy Garland. In this version, a popular film director whose career is in decline discovers a bright young woman whose career ascends. One thing this version had going for it was the lack of the Production Code, so Bennett was allowed to be saucier than the more wistful Gaynor and Garland characters (in this version named Mary Evans). Lowell Sherman, and actor/director, played a character modeled on himself (he was a known alcoholic), John Barrymore and silent director Marshall Neilan.

In this image, a police-escorted wedding takes place featuring the main players, Hamilton, Bennett, Ratoff and Sherman. There is a slight crease to the top left corner, as well as a pin hole, two pin holes at the center top blank white margin, one at the center bottom margin and one at the bottom left corner. Original story by Adela Rogers St. Johns. NEAR FINE.

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967) UK color still

Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) color still, UK. Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward. Jacqueline Susann took behind-the-scenes rumored stories of 1940s Broadway and Hollywood (to which, as an aspiring actress, she was privy) and wove them into the old showbiz movie formula of three girls in the biz and how they end up. It had been done in popular films since SALLY, IRENE AND MARY (1925), and continued with ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941) and HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953).

This time, though, the stories of some living legends of showbiz were being re-interpreted, and not in a flattering manner. The stories of Ethel Merman, Judy Garland (legendarily cast and fired from the film), Betty Hutton, Frances Farmer and Carole Landis made up the backgrounds of the main characters. Absurdly, the film makers set the film in contemporary 1967, by which time the use of “dolls” (Benzedrine) was as passe as was its style of filmmaking. Nevertheless, it was considered scandalous and great entertainment, and made a lot of money.

Here is Susan Hayward lip syncing (to Margaret Whiting’s recording) the Dore and Andre Previn song “I’ll Plant My Own Tree,” on one of 1960s films most outrageous theatre stages. Unique image from the British set. Tiny scratch to the top right side blank white margin, otherwise mint. FINE.

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967) Set of 4 photos

Set of four (4) vintage original 7 x 9″ (19 x 24 cm.) black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photos, USA. Susan Hayward. Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate, Paul Burke, dir: Mark Robson; Twentieth Century Fox. The popular cult classic based on Jacqueline Susann’s 1966 bestseller. The story, though presented in 1967, was based on Susann’s experience and information about the 1940s Broadway theater and Hollywood scene. Patty Duke plays Neely O’Hara, a character based on the stories of both Judy Garland and Betty Hutton.

Presented are Duke in several of her most notorious (and overacted) scenes from the film, including: the notorious discovery of her husband in the pool with a woman (in the book he was with a man), Neely’s humiliation of aging red haired Broadway star Helen Lawson (Susan Hayward), and the characters’ spiral downwards.

Flawless condition on all, VERY GOOD.

Hollywood Movie Memorabilia

Written by Bolen High on . Posted in Movie Memorabilia, Scene Stills.

One of WalterFilm’s website “Collections” is titled “Hollywood Movie Memorabilia.”  And while the term Memorabilia has a simple definition, “objects treasured for their memories or historical interest”, it doesn’t quite define or describe what Walter’s Hollywood Movie Memorabilia offers.

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Walter Film Catalog 50

Written by Bolen High on . Posted in African Americana, Film & Movie Star Photographs, Film Scripts, LGBTQ Cultural History, Movie Memorabilia, Movie Posters, Vintage Original Movie Scripts & Books, Vintage Original Publicity Photographs, Vintage Original Studio Photographs.

October 2022, I am pleased to announce the launch of Waler Reuben’s 50th Catalog. As usual, it contains a wide variety of material. Here are the listed categories and an example of their contents:

From Beefcake to Drag

Written by Bolen High on . Posted in LGBTQ Cultural History, LGBTQ Theater History.

In today’s LGBTQ community the gay male has two aspects of his personality that might be considered by some as somewhat outré: “drag or drag queens – men dressing as women” and “beefcake  males – hyper-muscular men.” Their true origins date from the ancient Greeks where the muscular male body was[…]