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WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939) Judy Garland and Ray Bolger

Vintage original 8 x 10” (20 x 25 cm.) black and white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Hamilton, Billie Burke, dir: Victor Fleming; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Amongst the first scenes to be filmed under the director’s hand of Victor Fleming was Dorothy’s meeting of the Scarecrow in the cornfield on the way to the Emerald City. Some months before this Oct. 1938 meeting, Judy and Ray went through the same paces on a much different set under the direction of Richard Thorpe. The footage was unsatisfactory and scrapped. George Cukor took over for a while and both characters costume and make up were greatly changed. Fleming oversaw the reconstruction of the set! Months after this, when an additional musical number was decided upon, in April 1939, this set was reconstructed and Garland and Bolger went through more paces Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret under Busby Berkeley’s hand. That footage was completely cut, though found some 50 years later. This is still 1060-60. The slight sepia toned photo has a crease at the top left corner and archival tape has been used to re-enforce. A tear at mid margin right has been repaired and tape has pulled a bit of border emulsion and bit of the paper from the verso. Copyright, 1939 Loew’s, Inc. and title information along the bottom margin. VERY GOOD-FINE.

WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939) Judy Garland and the Munchkins

Vintage original 8 x 10” (20 x 25 cm.) black and white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, dir: Victor Fleming; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. So rare and coveted are any original promotional items from this classic film which has become part of the American psyche. This still, 1060-23 is one of the few to feature Judy Garland as Dorothy with the Munchkins, here she intently listens to the words of the Mayor of Munchkin City as played by Charles Becker. This photo has been well used. There are tears and creases along the left margin which have been re-enforced with archival tape on the verso. There are creases at the corners and soling to the borders. Copyright, 1939 Loew’s, Inc. and title information along the bottom margin. One of the very few images which feature Judy in her “farm girl” shoes rather than the ruby slippers. VERY GOOD.

ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941) Judy Garland and Lana Turner

Vintage original 10 x 8” (25 x 20 cm.) black and white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr, James Stewart, dir: Robert Z. Leonard; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lana Turner and Judy Garland pose for a publicity still on the Ziegfeld Follies backstage rehearsal set. The story of three girls in show business and the different paths their lives take is an archetype which has been played out in many variations. The film was in development since 1938 and was to originally star a combination of MGM top female stars of the time including Eleanor Powell, Joan Crawford, Virginia Bruce and Margaret Sullavan. However, by 1940, the script was developed for the new reigning female stars. Garland and Turner first worked together in 1938 when Turner was brought into MGM by her mentor Mervyn Le Roy. The two co-starred in LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY and became good friends, and remained so even when Turner eloped with Garland’s crush Artie Shaw. The two appear to be sharing confidential information in photo coded 1165-173. Slight soil to the blank white margins. ABOUT FINE.

JUDY GARLAND / BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 (1937) by Clarence Sinclair Bull

Vintage original 10 x 8” (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Sophie Tucker, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland, dir: Roy Del Ruth; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

From March through July of 1937, Judy Garland was working on her first MGM feature production, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1937. She had appeared in several shorts for MGM and a feature at Twentieth Century Fox in 1936. Though she had signed with MGM in 1935, the studio was not sure what to do with her initially and groomed her slowly. Most of her first year was spent doing radio appearances so as audiences would become accustomed to the mature voice the 13 year-old possessed. She signed a contract with Decca records on her own at the time.

When, in Feb. 1937 she sang a special version of the song “You Made Me Love You” to Clark Gable at his studio birthday party, executives felt that the piece was so outstanding that she needed to perform it in a feature — thus, the role of Betty Clayton was created for the new Eleanor Powell-starring vehicle. The film was renamed BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 and publicized as being so NEW that it was a year ahead of its time!

To promote her new feature, Garland at age 15 posed for a variety of portraits for famed photographer C.S. Bull. His ink stamp is on the verso as is a date of July 7, 1937, and pencil notations for magazine use. Another ink date stamp of Jun 18, 1969, is also present for another publishing, which was just 4 days before her death.

Shows signs of use including light crop markings on the image, and light creasing at the four corners. Scratch to emulsion on piano music stand, VERY GOOD-FINE.

JUDY GARLAND / STRIKE UP THE BAND (1940) Glamour portrait

Vintage original 8 x 10” (20 x 25 cm.) black and white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, June Preisser, dir: Busby Berkeley: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Judy Garland was allowed a bit more glamour with each new film, including those in which she played the girl next door to Mickey Rooney. Judy turned 18 during production and not long after was engaged to be married. This was a story of High School Seniors who form a jazz band and win a big competition put on by Paul Whiteman. Slight creases at corners only. ABOUT FINE.

JUDY GARLAND | EVERYBODY SING (1938) Photo

Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Judy Garland, Billie Burke, Fanny Brice, Allan Jones, Reginald Owen, dir: Edwin L. Marin; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Still is coded 1020-13 and has minimal edge wear, about fine.

When in late-1937 MGM acquired the rights to The Wizard of Oz, with the intent of it being a vehicle for their rising musical star Judy Garland, the star-making machinery went into fast action. Featured in several films prior, the studio created this lower budget musical for her, sent her on a US personal tour, announced her casting in Oz in Feb. 1938, moved her to star status on their roster and set the script and music writers to their task of turning L. Frank Baum’s fantasy book into a musical. There were months of pre-production and so long did it take that Garland finished two more films before starting Oz.

This story, initially titled The Ugly Duckling, gave Judy great comic and dramatic moments as well as songs in the form of ballad, swing and minstrel — utilizing all her grand talents. Here she is with leading lady Lynn Carver, who plays her sister.

JUDY GARLAND | I COULD GO ON SINGING (1963) Performing “It Never Was You”

Vintage original 9 x 7″ (23 x 18 cm.) borderless single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon, Gregory Phillips, dir: Ronald Neame; United Artists. A very fine glossy print, fine.

Judy Garland’s satisfying swan song film. Originally titled (and released in Europe) as The Lonely Stage, both titles were appropriate for Garland. Essentially a soap opera, nowadays it is seen as a glossy 1960s drama in the style of The V.I.P.s and similar ’60s films.

Even today, the acting by both Garland and Dirk Bogarde (and the supports) is considered superb and the musical interludes, spell binding. Most of Garland’s concert performance work in the film was shot at the actual London Palladium, the scene of several record-breaking concert engagements by Garland. A mock-up of the Palladium stage was erected at Shepperton Studios for some of her songs and this still is for one of those.

Here she performs, with just a pianist (David Lee), the beautiful Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson song “It Never Was You”. Garland is framed in light on the stage, an iconic image of the beloved lady. Bob Willoughby is credited with the still photography on this film. It is coded LS (1317)-3 on the front.

MICKEY ROONEY | GIRL CRAZY (1943) Oversized publicity photo

[Los Angeles]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1943]. Vintage original 10 x 13″ (25 x 32 cm.) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Crease at top right corner, ink stamped 988 on verso. Some soil to the back, about fine.

As the original typed blurb on verso tells us, Mickey, the busiest young man in filmdom, has just finished his role opposite Judy Garland in Girl Crazy and is about to embark on a tour of army camps. He would be joining Judy and gang on the train to sell war bonds all over the country as part of the Hollywood Cavalcade Tour. Mickey would also enter the service within the next year.

ELEANOR POWELL PRE-PUBLICITY | ZIEGFELD GIRL (ca. 1938) Oversized photo

[Los Angeles]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [ca. 1938]. Vintage original 10 x 13″ (25 x 32 cm.) sepia-tinted double weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Some creasing near bottom right corner, near fine.

In pre-production soon after The Great Ziegfeld won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Ziegfeld Girl went through numerous script and casting revisions between early-1938 and late-1940. When Eleanor Powell posed for this fashion photo, which emphasized what the original attached blurb comments as her wearing a hat with a pirate sweep, she would next be seen in Ziegfeld Girl.

Luise Rainer, Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan and Virginia Bruce were also promoted as being cast, but the “new” girls at MGM were the final stars when the film went into production in late-1940: Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr.

An interesting artifact in the production of a big MGM musical. Photo coded MG 80592.