Oversized Portraits Of Pre-Code Hollywood Stars
Walter Film recently acquired a remarkable collection of studio portraits of some of the major stars of Pre-Code Hollywood. These oversized black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin portraits of the following:
AMERICAN DRAG
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and in this blog, we’re looking at how it’s place in society has evolved since it burst into being on the evening of June 28, 1969, resulting from a police raid on a dingy bar on Sheridan Square in New York’s Greenwich Village.
LGBTQ Lesbian Archive (1901-2004)
WOMEN IN FILM, THEATER & MUSIC
As the photograph of Katharine Hepburn above signifies, this is a collection of lesbian and bisexual women in film, theater and music. It spans a full century, starting with Maud Adams in 1901 and working its way up through a Chantal Akerman film of 2004.
The Essence of WalterFilm.com
WalterFilm.com was never meant to be a large website, it was intended to be an exclusive boutique featuring some of the greatest objects Walter Reuben could find. A website that would appeal to him as a collector of “movie memorabilia” – reflecting his own personal tastes and interests.
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4 Hollywood Leading Ladies from 1930s & 40s
Here are four extraordinary women, MARY ASTOR (above), JEAN ARTHUR, CLAUDETTE COLBERT and MYRNA LOY, who moved from silent film actors to famous leading ladies in the “talkies”. You name it, they did it, from exotic “oriental goddess” to screwball commedian; helping turn hollywood into… HOLLY…
Lon Chaney – Man Of Many Faces
THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH – Vintage original 27 x 38″ (70 x 98 cm.) poster, Sweden. Lon Chaney, Loretta Young, Nils Asther, Gwen Lee, dir: Herbert Brenon, MGM. In the role of the circus clown who could not laugh, known as Pagliacci, Lon Chaney, in perhaps his finest film performance, r…
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