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Movie Merchandising – He’s A Doll!
Motion picture studios left no stone unturned in their quest to market their movies. Therefore, movie merchandising, which reached its apex with films like STAR WARS, started with the dawn of film. Just like female stars, male stars were presented in doll form during the height of their pop…
The Essence of WalterFilm.com
| Film & Movie Star Photographs, Film Noir, Film Scripts, Hollywood History, Movie Memorabilia, Movie Posters, Vintage Original Movie Scripts & Books, Vintage Original Publicity Photographs, Vintage Original Studio Photographs
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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Walter Film Catalog 52/2023
Catalog 52 presented a collection of material represented by these six categories: FEATURED SELECTIONS, AFRICAN AMERICANA, LGBTQ, FILM NOIR, DIRECTORS and PHOTOGRAPHY. Here are five samples:
Jim Sharman and Richard O’Brien’s July 18, 1974 film script for the THE ROCK HORROR PICTURE SHOW,
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4 Hollywood Leading Ladies from 1930s & 40s
| Film & Movie Star Photographs, Hollywood History, Movie Memorabilia, Vintage Original Publicity Photographs, Vintage Original Studio Photographs
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…
Hollywood Movie Memorabilia
| Hollywood History, LGBTQ Cultural History, Movie Memorabilia, Pressbooks, Vintage Original Studio Photographs
When it comes to Hollywood Movie Memorabilia, much of WalterFilm’s vintage original stock might be considered “Hollywood” because a substantial amount of material either comes from Hollywood or references it. And when it comes to “Movie Memorabilia”, a large portion of what we offer could fit th…
Lon Chaney – Man Of Many Faces
| Film & Movie Star Photographs, Hollywood History, Movie Memorabilia, Movie Posters, Vintage Original Publicity Photographs, Vintage Original Studio Photographs
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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