Performing Arts Memorabilia
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Performing Arts Memorabilia Books & Ephemera
ODD COUPLE, THE (1985) Theatre window card NY
by Emanuel Azenberg, Wayne M. Rogers and the Shubert Organization
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Neil Simon (playwright) New York: Emanuel Azenberg, Wayne M. Rogers and the Shubert Organization, 1985. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster, USA. Unfolded, creasing in middle of poster, VERY GOOD. Two decades after its very successful debut on Broadway, this unusual revival was done of the comedy about two mismatched roommates � except this time, two women (Rita Moreno and Sally Struthers) took on the lead roles. This poster is...
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NZ$212.42
![DADDY GOODNESS: A NEW MUSICAL [1978] Window card poster](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/500/567/1349567500.0.b.jpg)
DADDY GOODNESS: A NEW MUSICAL [1978] Window card poster
by Clifton Davis, et al
Richard Wright (source) Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster, USA. [New York?]: Clifton Davis et al., [1978]. FINE. A musical by Ron Miller, Shauneille Perry, and Ken Hirsch, adapted from the play DADDY GOODNESS, by Richard Wright and Louis Sapin.The musical ran into severe trouble while still in tryouts on the road in Philadelphia and Washington, closing without ever getting to Broadway (where it had been scheduled to open on October 25 at the Winter Garden Theatre). Due...
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NZ$1,274.55
BILL ROBINSON (1943) - 1
by Twentieth Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox. No binding. Just About Fine. [Hollywood: Twentieth Century Fox, 1943]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, JUST ABOUT FINE. With a mimeographed sheet of film credits on verso. Portrait of the great dancer Bill Robinson in the Black cast musical STORMY WEATHER.
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NZ$254.91
The Christmas Story from David Harum
by Westcott Edward Noyes
NY: D. Appleton. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1900. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pages : 107 Condition : This 112 year old volume has the front and rear hinges lighly cracked, the book has light wear to covers. All edges gilt. Gilt decorations to front cover . See Photos; This is the WM. H. Crane Edition Illustrated from Mr. Charles Frohman's Production of David Harum, A comedy Dramatized from the novel. A nice Christmas collectible , a scarce piece...
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NZ$37.39
KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE, THE (1976) Poster style E (?)
by Faces
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 37 x 25" (94 x 62 cm.) poster, USA. Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Meade Roberts, dir: John Cassavetes; Faces Dist. On linen, about fine.Presented is the beautiful Chinese calligraphy style poster (style E), possibly the most rare of all posters made for this film, telling the dangers of gambling, addiction and the mob.
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NZ$5,098.20
STARS ON PARADE (1947) Lobby card
by All American
Vintage original 11 x 14" (28 x 36 cm.) lobby card, USA. Una May Carlisle, Bob Howard; dir: Joseph Seiden; All American. There is a neatly mended two-inch (3 cm.) tear at bottom center, multiple pinholes, and some minor creasing, very good-."Johnny Bennett has gone to war and left his sister Jane in charge of their radio station. Ira Lyon of the Glow-Tan cosmetic company is unhappy with his program and cancels it. When Johnny returns from duty and meets his sweetheart Patti Lyon, Ira's daughter, they...
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NZ$424.85
![MARGARETHE VON TROTTA [ca. 1978] Portrait of German feminist filmmaker](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/940/566/1349566940.0.b.jpg)
MARGARETHE VON TROTTA [ca. 1978] Portrait of German feminist filmmaker
No binding. Fine. Photo Paris, [1978]. Vintage original 5 x 7" (13 x 18 cm.) black-and-white photo, FINE. Portrait of the great German feminist filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, made for the release of her second film, THE SECOND AWAKENING OF CHRISTA KLAGES [DAS ZWEITE ERWACHEN DER CHRISTA KLAGES] (1978).
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NZ$594.79
WONDER BAR (1934) Window card poster
by Warner Brothers
No binding. Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 22" (35 x 56 cm.) window card poster, USA. Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Guy Kibee, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda, dir: Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley; Warner Brothers. Paper-backed, there has been some skillful but routine touch up to bottom margin and in the area of a couple of the small images of stars, near very good.Wonder Bar is the Paris entertainment bar owned by Al Wonder, and he welcomes...
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NZ$1,444.49
CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL (1980) Theatre window card
by Elliott Martin, Columbia
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print F. Scott Fitzgerald (subject) Tennessee Williams (playwright) Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) window card poster, USA. [Washington, D.C.]: Elliot Martin, Donald Cecil and Columbia Pictures, Jan. 28-Feb. 23, [1980]. ""A play about the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. A critical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime. The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays...
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WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (1966) Theatre window card
by David Merrick
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Shirley Jackson (source) Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster,� USA. Washington, D.C.:� David Merrick, Sept. 28-Oct. 15, [1966]. Minor wear at extreme blank edges, NEAR FINE. Poster for a month-long tryout for this play by Hugh Wheeler, adapted from one of Shirley Jackson's most famous (and harrowing) works of fiction, with its overriding theme the persecution of people who exhibit ""otherness"". The play, despite...
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![THREEPENNY OPERA, THE [DIE DREIGROSCHEN OPER] (1955) Theatre window card](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/853/566/1349566853.0.b.jpg)
THREEPENNY OPERA, THE [DIE DREIGROSCHEN OPER] (1955) Theatre window card
by Carmen Capalbo & Stanley Chase
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 23 x 15"" (59 x 38 cm.) window card poster, USA. Archivally paper-backed, with conservation done to address wear in blank right-hand upper side, now VERY GOOD+. With music by Kurt Weill and text and lyrics by Bertold Brecht, this musical play was one of the cornerstone dramatic works of the Weimar Republic -- and it was subsequently banned by the Nazis. It was an unfamiliar work in the US until the debut off-Broadway production, with a new...
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NZ$2,124.25
SWEET CHARITY (1969) Oversize BTS photo
by Universal
No binding. Fine. Photo Vintage original 13 1/4 x 10 3/8"" (34 x 26,5 cm.) oversize black-and-white photo, USA. Shirley MacLaine, dir: Bob Fosse; Universal. A rare oversized photo of Shirley MacLaine rehearsing a dance number with director Bob Fosse. JUST ABOUT FINE.
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NZ$849.70
A RAT'S MASS: PROCESSION IN SHOUT (1976) Theatre poster
by Adrienne Kennedy (playwright)
La MaMa. No binding. Fine. Adrienne Kennedy (playwright) [New York]: La MaMa Annex, [1976]. Vintage original 28.5 x 19.75" (72 x 50 cm.) theatre poster, unfolded, fine. "A Rat's Mass is a poetic, magical-realist one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy, a 20th-century African-American playwright. The play portrays the negative aspects of the black experience in the United States by depicting two African-American children longing for a...
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NZ$1,019.64
BIG BROADCAST OF 1938, THE (1938) Lobby card
by Paramount
No binding. Near fine. Fine Art Print. Vintage original 11 x 14" (28 x 35 cm.) lobby card, USA. W. C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Bob Hope, Lynne Overman, Ben Blue, dir: Mitchell Leisen; Paramount. Near fine.One of the finest and best remembered of the 1930s musicals, if for no other reason than the introduction, by Ross and Hope (his first feature role), of the classic song "Thanks for the Memory". It won the Academy Award.
Martha Raye, who did her own stunts in a raucously... Read more about this item
Martha Raye, who did her own stunts in a raucously... Read more about this item
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NZ$1,359.52
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, THE (1961) Broadway window card for Tennessee Williams play
by Charles Bowden
No binding. Fine. FIne Art Print Tennessee Williams (playwright) Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster, JUST ABOUT FINE. Poster for the opening night Broadway cast of this play, directed by Frank Corsaro, which included Bette Davis and Margaret Leighton. Although the play had a nine-month run, various actors, including Davis, left and were replaced. Hence this poster, with credits for the first cast, is scarce.
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NZ$1,444.49
ODD COUPLE, THE (1985) Theatre window card LA
by Emanuel Azenberg, Wayne M. Rogers and the Shubert Organization
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Neil Simon (playwright) Los Angeles: Emanuel Azenberg, Wayne M. Rogers and the Shubert Organization, 1985. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster, USA. Unfolded, light creasing, NEAR FINE. Two decades after its very successful debut on Broadway, this unusual revival was done of the comedy about two mismatched roommates � except this time, two women (Rita Moreno and Sally Struthers) took on the lead roles. This poster is for the...
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NZ$127.46
![LOVES OF A BLONDE [LÁSKY JEDNÉ PLAVOVLÁSKY] (1965) Set of 11 photos](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/299/567/1349567299.0.b.jpg)
LOVES OF A BLONDE [LÁSKY JEDNÉ PLAVOVLÁSKY] (1965) Set of 11 photos
by Various
Set of eleven (11) vintage original black-and-white print still photos -- of which 3 are Czechoslovakian 7 ¼ x 5" (18.5 x 13 cm.) photos, 2 of them with stamps on back from distributor Ceskoslovensky Filmexport); 8 are USA 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) photos, of which 3 have printed labels with text about the film from distributor Prominent Films. One of those labels is loose but present. FINE.
"Story of a young woman who has a routine job in a shoe factory in provincial Czechoslovakia. When the army holds... Read more about this item
"Story of a young woman who has a routine job in a shoe factory in provincial Czechoslovakia. When the army holds... Read more about this item
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NZ$764.73
RIVER NIGER, THE (1973) Window card poster
by D.C. Black Repertory Co
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) window card poster, USA. Poster for a limited engagement of Joseph Walker's acclaimed play about African American life, originally presented in New York City by the Negro Ensemble Company, here being given in Washington, D.C., in cooperation with the D.C. Black Repertory Company. JUST ABOUT FINE.
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NZ$764.73
RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) One sheet poster
by Miramax
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 27 x 41" (69 x 105 cm.) one sheet poster, USA. Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, dir: Quentin Tarantino; Miramax Films. Unfolded, with just the smallest hint of shelf wear, fine. Seven strangers team up for a crime, but, during the jewelry heist, something goes wrong and they start to suspect each other of being an informant. Tarantino's first full feature effort, made on a shoestring budget, is now a cult classic.This...
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NZ$1,274.55
LUIS BUÑUEL / NAZARIN (1959) Mexican poster
by Pel Mex
Vintage original 37 x 26" (94 x 66 cm.) poster, Mexico. Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez, Rita Macedo, dir: Luis Buñuel; Pel Mex. Folded, there is a distributor's stamp in blank white background. There is tiny paper loss in the middle of the right edge and there is a small amount of tattering along the foldlines and around the edges of the poster, very good.
Original Mexican poster for one of director Luis Buñuel's classic Mexican films -- a savage tale about an innocent young priest who strives to live a... Read more about this item
Original Mexican poster for one of director Luis Buñuel's classic Mexican films -- a savage tale about an innocent young priest who strives to live a... Read more about this item
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NZ$424.85
BIG HOTEL: A FARCE (1968) Flyer for Charles Ludlam stage production
by Charles Ludlam
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Charles Ludlam (playwright, director) New York: Ridiculous Theatrical Company, [1968]. Vintage original 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 21 cm.) flyer, USA, FINE.
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NZ$509.82
HEIDI CHRONICLES, THE (1989) Theatre poster
by Center Theatre Group
Wendy Wasserstein (playwright) Los Angeles: Center Theatre Group, [1989]. Vintage original 22 x 14″ (56 x 36 cm.) window card theatre poster, USA. Various creases, NEAR FINE.
Wendy Wasserstein won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, which unfolds over a period of twenty years, about the changing role of women during those times, showing her ardent feminism in the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal in the Reagan era.
This poster is for the Los Angeles premiere of the play,... Read more about this item
Wendy Wasserstein won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, which unfolds over a period of twenty years, about the changing role of women during those times, showing her ardent feminism in the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal in the Reagan era.
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NZ$424.85
INA CLAIRE / THE AWFUL TRUTH (1922) Photo of Broadway production
by White Studios
No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm.) sepia-tinted single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Ina Claire, Paul Harvey, Bruce McRae, Cora Witherspoon, Charles Frohman production, Henry Miller's Theatre. Arthur Richman's play would serve as the basis for the classic 1937 Leo McCarey screwball comedy with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. It was about a soon-to-be divorced couple who go to all lengths to ruin the other's new romances. In 1922, Ina Claire was a...
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NZ$849.70
CARMEN JONES (1954; 1963 1st Spanish release) Pressbook
by Twentieth Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox. Softcover/Paperback. Very Good+. [Barcelona?]: Twentieth Century Fox, 1963. Vintage original Spanish pressbook (for the film's first release in Spain), about 13 x 10" (33 x 26 cm.), folded once (as issued), stamp of a former collector on front cover, pictorial wrappers, 6 pp., a few very light stains, VERY GOOD+. The artwork on the front cover of Dorothy Dandridge is adapted from the American campaign, but the Spanish artist has greatly improved on the U.S. original -- this...
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Kromo Gravure Trading Card Rounded Borders Silent Screen Star Agnes Ayres
by Kromo Gravure Photo Company
Detroit, MI: Kromo Gravure Photo Company. Fine. 1917. Single Card. DATE: circa 1910 -1917 SIZE: 3 1/2 inches by 2 1/8 inches CONDITION: This vintage piece of film memorabilia is in fine condition with light edge wear and light dust soiling to the back of the card. ; This Kromo Gravure PhotoTrading Card with Rounded Borders is of Silent Screen Star Agnes Ayres. These cards are believed to have been offered as premiums at local movie theaters and sold in 5 & 10 Cent stores. "Born Agnes Eyre Hintle in...
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NZ$25.49
