Suite of Photographs and Relevant Material for the Cecil B. DeMille Production of 'Samson and Delilah': Including Autographed Photograph
NP [Paramount Pictures, Inc?], 1949. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (large). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #L069427
Slight browning to edges; slight browning to acetate and album matting. [12] leaves (rectos only except for 1 newspaper clipping, recto/verso; unpaginated). Series of 8 film stills in all from the Paramount picture, released in 1949, directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a script by Jesse L. Lasky, Junior and Fredric M. Frank, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, plus supplementary photographs showing Ms. Lamarr's peacock feathered cape (2 from the studio, both from November 1948; one with designers Jeanne Wheeler and Jane Moore working on the costume and one with Jane Moore alone working with the feathers; and one excerpted from the Los Angeles Times (taken by Iris Schneider) of the entire costume and the Norman Rockwell portrait of Samson, from the 'De Mille Dynasty Exhibition', undetermined date); with the added bonus portrait photograph of Lamarr (3/4 right profile pose, undetermined photographer and date, with 'HL-DL-62' in white in lower left corner), boldly signed and inscribed by Lamarr in lower right corner: 'To Jane -- With every good wish -- Hedy Lamarr / 1948'. A genuine token of affection of a star for a notable costume designer (Ms. Moore being a protegee of Edith Head at Paramount), with relevant supplementary matter; sold as a unit. Lamarr (1913-2000; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler); Austrian-born leading lady of the 1930's and 1940's; noteworthy for her nude appearance in the 1933 Czech film 'Extase' (or 'Ecstasy'); in Hollywood from 1937 on ('Algiers', 1938; 'Boom Town', 1940; 'White Cargo', 1942; 'Samson and Delilah', 1949; 'My Favorite Spy', 1951; etc).12 b/w Photographs (including Film stills).
Price: $750.00