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Auction archive: Lot number 79

FILM STARS

Auction 21.12.1994
21 Dec 1994
Estimate
£7,000 - £9,000
ca. US$10,909 - US$14,025
Price realised:
£14,300
ca. US$22,285
Auction archive: Lot number 79

FILM STARS

Auction 21.12.1994
21 Dec 1994
Estimate
£7,000 - £9,000
ca. US$10,909 - US$14,025
Price realised:
£14,300
ca. US$22,285
Beschreibung:

FILM STARS An important collection of approximately twenty three thousand vintage film stills , collected by Felix Barker, film critic for The London Evening News, 1960-1982, the majority circa 1930s-1960s, subjects include Fred Astaire (31), Lauren Bacall (15), Ingrid Bergman (20), Humphrey Bogart (31), Marlon Brando (47), Richard Burton (27), James Cagney (9), Charlie Chaplin (91), Montgomery Clift (26), Claudette Colbert (14), Gary Cooper (13), Joan Crawford (19), Bette Davis (21), James Dean (11), Marlene Dietrich (27), W.C. Fields (6), Errol Flynn (10), Clarke Gable (14), Greta Garbo (39), Ava Gardener (11), Judy Garland (20), Greer Garson (15), Paulette Goddard (7), Stewart Granger (15), Cary Grant (15), D.W. Griffith, Alec Guinness (40), Jean Harlow (9), Rita Hayworth (11), Katherine Hepburn (45), Audrey Hepburn (23), Alfred Hitchcock (10), Grace Kelly (25), Alan Ladd (19), Veronica Lake, Hedy Lamarr (12), Charles Laughton (41), Laurel and Hardy (9), Jack Lemmon (31), Harold Lloyd (37), Herbert Lom (23), Carole Lombard (10), Sophia Loren (70), Peter Lorre (17), Shirley MacLaine (39), Fred MacMurray (15), Jayne Mansfield (27), Frederic March (22), The Marx Bros. (13), Paul McCartney, Marilyn Monroe (17), David Niven (58), Maureen O'Hara (25), Gregory Peck (57), Mary Pickford (12), William Powell (22), Tyrone Power (30), Elvis Presley (22), Vincent Price (14), Anthony Quinn (27), George Raft (11), Claude Rains (21), Basil Rathbone (8), Ralph Richardson (31), Paul Robeson (3), Edward G. Robinson (18), Ginger Rogers (30), Jane Russell (38), Margaret Rutherford (26), Sabu, James Stewart (38), Gloria Swanson (27), Elizabeth Taylor (40), Shirley Temple (14), Spencer Tracey (49), Lana Turner (35), Rudolph Valentino (12), Conrad Veidt (16), Erich Von Stroheim (6), John Wayne (49), Johnny Weismuller (5), Orson Wells (27), Mae West (5), Anna May Wong (15), Jane Wyman and Loretta Young (16); accompanied by a large corresponding collection of film star biographies, comprising backgrounds and press cuttings on the subject. A complete list of all the subjects included in the collection will be available on request and on the view.

Auction archive: Lot number 79
Auction:
Datum:
21 Dec 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

FILM STARS An important collection of approximately twenty three thousand vintage film stills , collected by Felix Barker, film critic for The London Evening News, 1960-1982, the majority circa 1930s-1960s, subjects include Fred Astaire (31), Lauren Bacall (15), Ingrid Bergman (20), Humphrey Bogart (31), Marlon Brando (47), Richard Burton (27), James Cagney (9), Charlie Chaplin (91), Montgomery Clift (26), Claudette Colbert (14), Gary Cooper (13), Joan Crawford (19), Bette Davis (21), James Dean (11), Marlene Dietrich (27), W.C. Fields (6), Errol Flynn (10), Clarke Gable (14), Greta Garbo (39), Ava Gardener (11), Judy Garland (20), Greer Garson (15), Paulette Goddard (7), Stewart Granger (15), Cary Grant (15), D.W. Griffith, Alec Guinness (40), Jean Harlow (9), Rita Hayworth (11), Katherine Hepburn (45), Audrey Hepburn (23), Alfred Hitchcock (10), Grace Kelly (25), Alan Ladd (19), Veronica Lake, Hedy Lamarr (12), Charles Laughton (41), Laurel and Hardy (9), Jack Lemmon (31), Harold Lloyd (37), Herbert Lom (23), Carole Lombard (10), Sophia Loren (70), Peter Lorre (17), Shirley MacLaine (39), Fred MacMurray (15), Jayne Mansfield (27), Frederic March (22), The Marx Bros. (13), Paul McCartney, Marilyn Monroe (17), David Niven (58), Maureen O'Hara (25), Gregory Peck (57), Mary Pickford (12), William Powell (22), Tyrone Power (30), Elvis Presley (22), Vincent Price (14), Anthony Quinn (27), George Raft (11), Claude Rains (21), Basil Rathbone (8), Ralph Richardson (31), Paul Robeson (3), Edward G. Robinson (18), Ginger Rogers (30), Jane Russell (38), Margaret Rutherford (26), Sabu, James Stewart (38), Gloria Swanson (27), Elizabeth Taylor (40), Shirley Temple (14), Spencer Tracey (49), Lana Turner (35), Rudolph Valentino (12), Conrad Veidt (16), Erich Von Stroheim (6), John Wayne (49), Johnny Weismuller (5), Orson Wells (27), Mae West (5), Anna May Wong (15), Jane Wyman and Loretta Young (16); accompanied by a large corresponding collection of film star biographies, comprising backgrounds and press cuttings on the subject. A complete list of all the subjects included in the collection will be available on request and on the view.

Auction archive: Lot number 79
Auction:
Datum:
21 Dec 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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