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The J.A. Aberdeen Collection
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D. W. Griffith
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| Stunning sepia tone photo handwriting on reverse says: "D. W. Griffith,
Director, Mutual Film Corporation" |
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| D. W. Griffith - 1920s photo |
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Cecil B. DeMille
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| Cecil B. DeMille. No date
given. |
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Jesse L. Lasky
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| Jesse L. Lasky -
producer. New York. 1915. |
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Orson Welles
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| Orson Welles - circa 1939 |
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Walt Disney
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| Walt Disney in the early
1930s, shortly after he signed distribution agreement with United
Artists. |
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| Walt Disney around 1950
seen with zoetrope and other animation paraphernalia. |
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John Ford:
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John Ford in 1937. Publicity photo by Alex Kahle.
Writing on reverse: "JOHN FORD, now directing Samuel Goldwyn's "The Hurricane",
from the Nordhoff and Hall best seller. The case includes John Hall, Dorothy
Lamour, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor and Jerome
Cowan."
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| John Ford - RKO Radio Pictures publicity photo 1936 - promoting the film
"The Plough and the Stars" |
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Charlie Chaplin:
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| Real photo card of
Charles Chaplin around 1920. |
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| Charlie Chaplin - 1940.
"Charlie Chaplin arriving in New
York for the premiere showing of his picture THE GREAT
DICTATOR"
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Samuel Goldwyn:
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| Samuel Goldwyn - about
1923 (no date given) |
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| Samuel Goldwyn -
"publicity photo #1" (circa 1930s) |
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Frank Capra:
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| Frank Capra - director at
Columbia Pictures. |
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| Frank Capra - independent
producer, Liberty Films. |
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Leo McCarey
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| Leo McCarey - Independent producer-director. Movies include
The Awful Truth, Duck Soup, Going My Way, and The Bells of St.
Mary's. |
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Mary Pickford:
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Mary Pickford in her
final film for Biograph - D. W. Griffith's The New York Hat.
Following this film, she signed with Famous Players.
Reverse: "Mary Pickford in a scene from THE NEW YORK HAT directed by D. W.
Griffith with scenario by Anita Loos; Biograph 1912."
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| Real photo card - 1919
(First National) |
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| Mary Pickford - French
photocard (United Artists) |
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| Advertisement on printed
postcard. One of the few existing post-1919 promotional photos
photographed from Pickford's right side. |
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| Mary Pickford 1920 (no
date given). Signature photo from late silent era. |
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| Mary Pickford - 1929 Best
Actress Oscar for Coquette. |
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| Mary Pickford in her
final film performance. Secrets (1932). Photo by K. O. Rahmn. |
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David O. Selznick:
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| David O. Selznick - about
1934 |
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| David Selznick while at
United Artists. No date given. |
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Lewis J. Selznick:
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| Printed photo advertising
the first independent film company formed by a Selznick: The
Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation, founded by Lewis J. Selznick. |
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| Clara Kimball
Young. Produced by Lewis J. Selznick |
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Walter Wanger:
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| Walter Wanger - publicity
photo taken to announce his independent production company releasing
through Paramount in the mid-1930s. |
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| Walter Wanger - United
Artists publicity photo 1938. |
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| Ingrid Bergman as Joan of
Arc in the Walter Wanger production from 1948. |
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| Ingrid Bergman as Joan of
Arc (detail). |
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United Artsits:
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| U. A. Founders - Douglas
Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin. |
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| United Artists associates
gather to protest the Fox West Coast theatre monopoly 1930. Al
Jolson, Mary Pickford, Ronald Coleman, Gloria Swanson, Douglas
Fairbanks, Joseph M. Schenck, Charles Chaplin, Samuel Goldwyn, and
Eddie Cantor. |
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Misc:
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| Ince Studios -
Real photo from late teens. Studio lot subsequently became
DeMille, Pathe, Selznick, and Desilu. |
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| Adolph Zukor -
Chairman of the Board - Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1937.
"The Napolean of Motion
Pictures," founder of Famous Players studio, mastermind behind
the Paramount monopoly, and once the most powerful individual in
Hollywood.
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| Hobart Bosworth - Silent actor turned
director. Important independent producer. Formed his own film company Bosworth
Inc. which became part of the famed 1916 merger of Famous Players-Lasky
and the subsequent takeover of Paramount. |
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| Marion Davies -
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer fashion photo - wearing Nowitzky
designer dress (Cosmopolitan Pictures). Oversize photo 1931.
Reverse says: "There will be something new under next summer's sun. . . according to
Marion Davies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's star who recently returned from a European
holiday to start her picture "Polly of the Circus". Coming in the
guise of a beach costume that will take the place of last season's pajama - this
new outfit - by the famed Mary Nowitzky - consists of a skirt made of pineapple
cloth with a fringe at the side of the wrap-around of raffia. To harmonize with
the "Waikiki" skirt there is a lei of rubber flowers to decorate the
neckline of the bathing suit."
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| Danny Kaye in Up In Arms (1944)
Movie still from the famous "Lobby Number" sequence, a satire of musical films, one of the longest comedy routines of its kind, written by Kaye's wife Sylvia Fine and Max Liebman
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| Maria Corda - Hungarian actress, wife of filmmaker Alexander
Korda. Photo is
of European origin - photo credited to Atelier Edith Barakovich of Vienna. Circa
1919. |
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| Sterling Holloway - prolific Disney voice artist and character actor.
Photo by John Ellis in 1937. Voice work included Cheshire Cat (Alice in
Wonderland), Kaa the Snake (Jungle Book), and Winnie the Pooh. |
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