Marcel Dole (3 results)

Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll, all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near, he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated, and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish, but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling, and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films, notably "The Night Affair" (1958), "The Counterfeiters of Paris" (1961), "Speaking of Murder" (1957), and "Maigret Sees Red" (1963), as did photographer Dole, who was consistent if anything, a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere, Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall, with light curling, discoloration.

Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in manuscript ink on the page, and in mimeograph on the verso, all credited to photographer Dole on the recto. The keybook illustrates a few film sequences, most with a stoic Gabin in hat, with several composed studio portraits of actress Nat. Included are four larger single photographs of Gabin doing a chair trick in a pub, a sequence present in the keybook, also credited to Dole on the recto. Based on Lefevre's novel, "Rue des Prairies" (1955). Gabin plays a POW who returns a widower and in charge of three children. His experiences during the war are relieve through heavy drinking, but he has a warm side that proves beneficial. Photographer Dolé was consistent if anything, a regular with directors like Denys de La Patelliere, Jean Delannoy, and Grangier, and several Jean Gabin films. Keybook photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches, four photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches, small white borders. Light curling, else Near Fine. Notebook Very Good plus.

No binding. Condition: Near Fine. An unframed, loose color print from the 1967 film Action Man, originally released as Le Soleil des Voyous (directed by Jean Delannoy), depicting Robert Stack lighting a fire with a torch next to an unidentified man who is tied up. Marcel Dolé was the still photographer for the film. 9-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches. Near Fine (paper fragment glued near lower edge and moderate creasing to the corners).