Irving Lippman (9 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Photographic print measuring 8 x 10 inches taken between scenes during the filming of "Opera Hat" [retitled MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN]. "Star Gary Cooper entertains distinguished visitors." Short tear bottom margin.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Irving Lippman (Photographer) (illustrator). First Thus. Howard Hawks (director) Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (play), Charles Lederer (Screenwriter) Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant (Actors). HIS GIRL FRIDAY. Hollywood, CA: Columbia Studios, 1940. Original gelatin silver, glossy, double weight, 8.25" by 10" candid image of Howard Hawks with his camera crew filming a scene from the one of the greatest screwball comedies in cinema history, an adaptation of the 1928 novel THE FRONT PAGE by Hecht and MacArthur. The film is set in a New York newspaper office and tells its tale of romance and mayhem with some of the wittiest dialog of any screenplay of the era. The photo is in Near Fine vintage condition with some light handling wear . Reverse with studio photographer Irving Lippman's stamp, a studio snipe, a dated green "approved stamp," and a collector's sticker.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1954 film noir. Shot by Irving Lippman, with his stamp on the verso. Based on the 1890 novel "La Bete Humaine" by Emile Zola and previously filmed under that title in 1938 by Jean Renoir. Blackmailed into remaining with her murderous husband Carl (Broderick Crawford), Vicki (Gloria Grahame) convinces her new lover Jeff (Glenn Ford) to kill Carl and recover the evidence of her involvement in a murder. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and chords for these great Nat King Cole songs: Dance Ballerina Dance; For All We Know; Mona Lisa; Nature Boy; Ramblin' Rose; Smile; Somewhere Along the Way; Sweet Lorraine; Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer; Too Young; Unforgettable; The Very Thought of You. 32 pages including two pages of black and white illustrations plus a page of biographical information. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this wonderful Nat King Cole memento.; 4to.

Vintage reference photographs of director Wesley Ruggles on the set of the 1940 film, by photographer Irving Lippman. Mimeo snipe and photographer "Irving Lippman" stamp on verso. Based on the 1919 play by W. Somerset Maugham, which was based on the 1864 poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Tennyson. Soon after presumed window Vicky (Jean Arthur) marries her late husband's friend and business partner Henry (Melvyn Douglas), her first, presumed dead, husband Bill (Fred MacMurray) shows back up, and now she's got one too many. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography, 1934-1942.

Vintage reference photograph of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger, with director William Dieterle and crew, from the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Columbia Pictures highly fictionalized and flamboyant Technicolor Biblical epic, now considered a camp classic, wherein Princess Salome (Hayworth), daughter of King Herod (a deliciously lecherous Charles Laughton), returns home from banishment and falls in love with Roman Commander Claudius (Granger) , but is maliciously used by her evil mother, Queen Herodias (Judith Anderson), to insure the execution of her critic, John the Baptist (Alan Badel). Shot on location in Israel. 10.25 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with creasing and two small closed tears to right margin.

Vintage studio still photograph of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1949 film noir. A wonderful photograph of the entire crew shooting a scene where Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight are parting at an airport. Sirk is standing on a crane support at the left, and cinematographer Charles Lawton, Jr. is seated just below. A key American noir, from an original screenplay by Samuel Fuller. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles, and notably in the Bradbury Building on Broadway, now an architectural landmark originally built in 1893 by Los Angeles mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and designed by George Wyman. In a custom, museum-quality frame, archivally mounted, with UV glass. 7 x 9 inches, borderless, with a studio stamp and a mimeograph snipe on the verso. Near Fine. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Vintage black-and-white photograph of Peter Lorre on the set, seated with his script, from the 1935 film. Photographed by A.L. Schaefer, with his credit stamp on the verso, as well as a stamp reading "PETER LORRE / COLUMBIA CONTRACT PLAYER." 8 x 10 inches. Fine.

Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City, including their daughter, who falls in love with a banker, a decent and goodhearted man, despite his snobbish, elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards, for Best Picture and Best Director, and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years. Set in New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).