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Auction archive: Lot number 42

Film Stars, Directors And Studios

Auction 14.12.2004
14 Dec 2004
Estimate
£350 - £550
ca. US$675 - US$1,061
Price realised:
£956
ca. US$1,844
Auction archive: Lot number 42

Film Stars, Directors And Studios

Auction 14.12.2004
14 Dec 2004
Estimate
£350 - £550
ca. US$675 - US$1,061
Price realised:
£956
ca. US$1,844
Beschreibung:

Film Stars, Directors And Studios A collection of black and white stills associated with Maurice Bessy's career as editor of Cinemonde Magazine, majority circa 1940s-1950s including approximately 68 stills of Bessy in Hollywood with various stars, sometimes presenting the artists with the Winged Victory Trophy (the French 'Oscar'), subjects include: David O. Selznick, Walt Disney Clark Gable, Edward G.Robinson, Glenn Ford, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks, William Holden and Cary Grant, majority -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.) , (several stills with duplicates); eight black and white prints of Bessy, three portrait shots and five of subject in a Hollywood film studio props department, the latter -- 5 1/3x4in. (13x10.2cm.) ; approximately 34 autographed publicity photographs, some with secretarial signatures, subjects include: Alfred Hitchcock Johnny Weissmuller, Ramon Novarro, Coral Brown, Lilian Harvey, Anna Neagle and Paul Muni, largest -- 10x12in. (25.4x30.5cm.) (a lot)

Auction archive: Lot number 42
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

Film Stars, Directors And Studios A collection of black and white stills associated with Maurice Bessy's career as editor of Cinemonde Magazine, majority circa 1940s-1950s including approximately 68 stills of Bessy in Hollywood with various stars, sometimes presenting the artists with the Winged Victory Trophy (the French 'Oscar'), subjects include: David O. Selznick, Walt Disney Clark Gable, Edward G.Robinson, Glenn Ford, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks, William Holden and Cary Grant, majority -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.) , (several stills with duplicates); eight black and white prints of Bessy, three portrait shots and five of subject in a Hollywood film studio props department, the latter -- 5 1/3x4in. (13x10.2cm.) ; approximately 34 autographed publicity photographs, some with secretarial signatures, subjects include: Alfred Hitchcock Johnny Weissmuller, Ramon Novarro, Coral Brown, Lilian Harvey, Anna Neagle and Paul Muni, largest -- 10x12in. (25.4x30.5cm.) (a lot)

Auction archive: Lot number 42
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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