American Historical Ephemera & Photography

40 promotional photographs, most 8 x 10 in. or smaller, ca 1930s-1950s. Identified individuals with picture, if known, include: Bob Hope ("Thanks for the Memories"); Alexis Smith ("Night and Day"); Henry Fonda; Helmut Dantine ("Shadow of a Woman"); Florence Rice; Rochelle Hudson ("Show Them No Mercy"); Zasu Pitts (Riddle of Dangling Pearl"); Madeleine Carroll ("The General Died at Dawn"); Ruth Chatterlon; Lyle Talbot ("Go West Young Man"); Dennis Morgan ("The Time, the Place, and the Girl"); Dane Clark ("Her Kind of Man"); Bob Walker ("Her Highness and the Bellboy"); Otto Kruger; The Ritz Brothers ("Yours for laughs"); Buddy Rogers; Michael Whalen ("Career Woman"); Eddie Cantor; Ronald Coleman; Madeleine Carroll; Robert Donat; Martha Raye ("College Holiday")'; Mario Lanza ("The Great Caruso"); Spencer Tracy; Jessie Matthews ("Paris Love Song"); Myrna Loy; Ralph Bellamy ("Navy Wife"); Ava Gardner (in color).

[With:] 24 promotional photographs of Hollywood stars, ca 1940s and 1950s. Studios represented are 20th Century Fox, MGM, and Columbia, including: 5 photos of actress Anne Baxter (1925-1985), from 10 x 13 in. to 11 x 14 in. -- 3 photos, approx. 11 x 14 in., of actress Jeanne Crain (1925-2003), one with Lan McCallester. -- 11 x 14 in. photograph of actress Loretta Young (1913-2000). With printer's markings. -- 10 x 13 in. photograph of actress Jeanette MacDonald (1903-1965) with Lew Ayres [MGM]. -- 10 x 13 in. photograph of actress Janet Leigh (1927-2004). -- 2 photos, approx. 11 x 14 in. of actress Linda Darnell (1923-1965), with printer's markings, plus one unidentified photo that seems to also be Darnell. Third has the same printer's markings as one of the Darnell photographs.-- 8 photos, approx. 10 x 13 in. Publicity stills for Pal Joey, Columbia Pictures, 1957.  Images were circulated for advertising, and two still have their negatives taped to verso. Several others with tape remnants, but the negatives are missing.

[Also with:] 21 promotional photographs, most 8 x 10 in., including: 6 photos from the film "Bad Company" (1972, Paramount) (Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown). -- 2 Marlon Brando "Last Tango in Paris" (1972). -- "Heat" Sylvia Miles, Pat Ast and Joe Dallesandro (Andy Warhol) (1972). -- "Wednesday's Child" from the 10th New York Film Festival (1974). -- Zouzou, Bernard Verley in "Chloe in the Afternoon" (1972) (10th New York Film Festival). -- Lupe Velez "Playmates" (R.K.O.). -- Gretta Garbo and George Cukor (director) (MGM) "Two-Faced Woman" (1941). -- Judy Garland in "Ziegfeld Girl" (MGM, 1941). -- Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire, "You'll Never Get Rich" (Columbia). -- Zero the Wonder Dog (Warner Bros.) "Hight Sierra".-- 3 Sid Caesar performing on stage. -- Gail Meredith "Riviera" (1946). -- Paulette Goddard "The Ghost Breakers" (1940, Paramount).

Together, 85 photographs, in generally good condition. Many with markings, bends, scuffing. Many seem to have been handled by printers.