Ava Gardner Museum
Smithfield, NC: Ava Gardner Museum, n.d. 1 sheet, wraps, illus., maps. This item is a flyer (single sheet), printed on both sides. More
Smithfield, NC: Ava Gardner Museum, n.d. 1 sheet, wraps, illus., maps. This item is a flyer (single sheet), printed on both sides. More
Hollywood, CA: Historical Films, 1968. 28 cm, 68, wraps, substantial pencil notations. More
London, England: Phaidon Press, 2002. Reprint of 1999 initial printing. Trade paperback. Glued binding. 520 p. Illustrations (some in color). Index. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2000. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 335, [1] pages. Illustrations. Black mark on bottom edge, Includes Acknowledgments, Prologue, Epilogue, and Index. Topics covered include Early Training; The Audition; The Rehearsal; Curtain Up; The Production; The Scene; The Players; On the Road; Intermission; Act II; The Critics; Hollywood; Backstage; and Curtain Down. The witty, no-holds-barred memoir of the acclaimed actress who became head of the National Endowment for the Arts. Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American author, actress, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner. Alexander made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Great White Hope and won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honour (1998). She has received a total of seven Tony Award nominations and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. She went on to star in the film version of The Great White Hope in 1970 and received the first of four Academy Award nominations for her performance. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Testament (1983). An eight-time Emmy nominee, she received her first nomination for playing Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin (1976). She has won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Playing for Time (1980) and Warm Springs (2005). More
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2001. First Da Capo Press Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xiii. [3], 335, [1] pages. Minor cover wear. Inscribed on title page. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Acknowledgments, Prologue, Epilogue, and Index. Topics covered include Early Training; The Audition; The Rehearsal; Curtain Up; The Production; The Scene; The Players; On the Road; Intermission; Act II; The Critics; Hollywood; Backstage; and Curtain Down. The witty, no-holds-barred memoir of the acclaimed actress who became head of the National Endowment for the Arts. Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American author, actress, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner. Alexander made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Great White Hope and won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honour (1998). She has received a total of seven Tony Award nominations and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. She went on to star in the film version of The Great White Hope in 1970 and received the first of four Academy Award nominations for her performance. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Testament (1983). An eight-time Emmy nominee, she received her first nomination for playing Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin (1976). She has won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Playing for Time (1980) and Warm Springs (2005). More
New York: Cliff Street Books, 2000. First Edition. First Printing. 352, illus., bibliography, notes, index. More
American Film Institute, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 88 pages. Includes illustrations. Many illustrations in color. Back cover folds out. This publication documents the 34th AFI life achievement award, and was presented as a memento to AFI members. The American Film Institute (AFI) is an organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. The American Film Institute was founded by a 1965 presidential mandate announced in the White House by Lyndon B. Johnson—to establish a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate filmmakers, and honor the artists and their work. In 1967, AFI was established, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation. The original Board of Trustees included Gregory Peck as chairman and Sidney Poitier as vice-chairman, as well as Francis Ford Coppola, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti, and other representatives from the arts and academia. More
Los Angeles, CA: American Film Institute, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Quarto, 84 pages. Wraps. Profusely illustrations. Filmography. Color fold-out at rear cover. Some discoloration to margin of text. Covers somewhat worn and scuffed: small scratches to covers. Contains an article by Rochelle L. Levy on "The Achievement of Robert De Niro, " as well as a compilation/adaptation of public interviews with Robert De Niro from 1981 to 2003. Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American-Italian actor, producer, and director. He is a recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Golden Lion, the AFI Life Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom. De Niro was cast as the young Vito Corleone in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. More
New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1960. 28.5 cm, 112, profusely illus. (some color), color maps, boards and spine foxed, slight discoloration to flyleaves. More
New York: Castle Books, [c1971]. First? Printing. 27 cm, 216, illus., index, some wear to DJ. More
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2014. First edition/first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 208 p. Halftones, color. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 245 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Index. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, chipped, and price clipped. With an Introduction by Sumner Locke Elliott. Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. She may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon. Astor began her motion picture career in the silent movies of the early 1920s. When talkies arrived, her voice was initially considered too masculine and she was off the screen for a year. After she appeared in a play with friend Florence Eldridge, film offers returned, and she resumed her career. In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife. Overcoming these difficulties, she went on to greater film success, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of concert pianist Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). Astor was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to work in film, television and on stage until her retirement in 1964. She authored five novels. Her autobiography was a bestseller, as was her later book, A Life on Film, which was about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of Astor in 1990 that when "two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played." More
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, USA, 2007. First edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. xi, [1], 158, [6] p. Illustrations, black & white. Further Reading and Viewing. Index. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. viii, 214 pages. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress and singer known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." Bacall began her career as a model, before making her debut as a leading lady with Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not in 1944. She continued in the film noir genre with appearances with Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), and starred in the romantic comedies How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film, The Shootist (1976). Bacall also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981). Her performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. A month before her 90th birthday, Bacall died in New York City after a stroke. More
New York: M. Barrows and Company, Incorporated, 1940. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 64 pages. frontis., plates. 24 cm. No dust jacket is present. Boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 332, illus., footnotes, bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. c, [2], 350, [6] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Inscribed by author on title page. Minor DJ soiling. Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model. She won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her ten seasons as the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988–98, 2018–present). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over, and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi. Bergen began her career as a fashion model and appeared on the front cover of Vogue before she made her screen debut in the 1966 film The Group. She went on to star in The Sand Pebbles, Soldier Blue, Carnal Knowledge, and The Wind and the Lion. Her other film roles include Miss Congeniality, Sweet Home Alabama, The Women, Bride Wars, and Book Club. More
Edgar Bergen. Presumed one of multiple originals, but uniquely inscribed. Photograph (Inscribed, in frame with no glass). The frame is approximately 5.125 inches by 7.125 inches and the black and white photograph is approximately 5 inches by 7 inches. At the top, is the handwritten inscription All the best to you, Joel Edgar Bergen. There is some fading of the inscription but all words are legable. There is some staining and discoloration at the bottom of the photograph. Edgar Bergen, (born Feb. 16, 1903—died Sept. 30, 1978, Las Vegas, Nev.), American ventriloquist and radio comedian whose career in vaudeville, radio, and motion pictures spanned almost 60 years. Bergen was best known as the foil of his ventriloquist’s dummy Charlie McCarthy. The Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy Show was a permanent fixture on American network radio from 1937 until 1957. Other characters created by Bergen, such as Mortimer Snerd, were woven into the perennially popular program, which was rated as radio’s most popular in 1937–40 and 1942–43 and among the top seven from 1937 to 1952. When he was 11, he discovered a facility for vocal tricks and an interest in ventriloquism. He had the head of the dummy Charlie McCarthy carved (he made the body himself) while in high school. By the time he attended Northwestern University, he was proficient enough to earn his expenses with ventriloquism and magic tricks. He went into vaudeville and performed in nightclubs in the United States and Europe. During World War II Bergen took Charlie with him to entertain American service personnel and appearing on many special radio shows. After their radio show terminated, Bergen and McCarthy appeared often as guests on variety television shows. More
New York: Viking, 1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 308, illus., chronology by Peter Cowie, index, front DJ flap price clipped. Translation of Laterna magica. More
New York: Dutton, c1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 325, acid-free paper, illus. with 32 pages of plates, filmography, index. More
New York: Dutton, 1992. First Printing. 452, illus., sources, index, some wear to DJ edges. More
New York: G. Weidenfeld, 1991. First American Edition. 25 cm, 403, index, acid-free paper, stamp on bottom edge. More