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WALTER REUBEN CATALOG 44|2019

WalterFilm.com’s third catalog (#44/2019) contains 84 pages that include vintage original photographs, posters, programs, pressbooks, lobby cards and film scripts. The categories encompassed are: Warhol, LGBTQ, Movie Musicals, African Americana, Pre-Code Hollywood, Literature, Film Directors and Women.

The catalog’s cover (above) is graced by a in-flight image of a dancing Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth (attributed to photographer George Hurrell) from the 1942 poster of Columbia Picture’s You Were Never Lovelier” (see below).

African American Film Scripts, African American Movie Posters, African-American Memorabilia, Black Memorabilia, Collecting Movie Scripts and Screen Plays, George Edward Hurrell, Hollywood Movie Memorabilia, LGBTQ Original Vintage Film & Theater Poster, Original Vintage Film Posters, Original Vintage Lobby Cards, Vintage Original Film Scripts, Vintage Original Screenplays

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Shooting The Stars – The Golden Age of Hollywood Portraiture

Hollywood Portrait Photography came into existence at the beginning of the 20th Century, following the relocation of the film industry from the east coast to Hollywood. These fledgling studios needed to create interest in their motion pictures by promoting the actors who stared in them. From 1910 – 1970, there were six individuals that became the photographers of choice for “shooting the stars,” and each, in their own way (as seen above in George Edward Hurrell’s stunning portrait of Marlene Dietrich), helped define the look of the Golden Age of Motion Pictures and the Hollywood star: Albert Witzel, George Hurrell, Clarence Bull, Ruth Harriet Louise, Milton Greene and Cecil Beaton.

As the New York Times reported on September 6, 1936,

The cinema’s glamour machine that takes waitresses, debutantes, actresses, school-girls and their masculine parallels and by adroit veneering makes of them the dream children of the silver screen… Its product thunders from newspaper and magazine pages, from billboards and theatre lobbies. Its prime purpose is to make the customer go to the ticket window and lay down money. It must give the appearance of genius to very ordinary people. It must conceal physical defects and give the illusion of beauty and personality should none exist. It must restore youth where age has made its rounds. It must give warmth to neutral or rigid features. It is in short, the still department.

Albert Walter Witzel, Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, Cecil Beaton, Clarence Sinclair Bull, George Edward Hurrell, Greta Garbo, Hollywood Portrait Photography., Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Milton H. Greene, Movie Star Photos For Sale, Ruth Harriet Louise

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