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Presents OUT OF THIS WORLD! NOVEMBER 21 TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES AND BONHAMS: THE DEFINITIVE PARTNERSHIP FOR CLASSIC MOVIE MEMORABILIA TCM PRESENTS... OUT OF THIS WORLD! Tuesday November 21, 2017 at 1pm New York BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 Dr. Catherine Williamson Front cover: lot 1070 New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Vice President, Director Inside front cover: lot 1010 bonhams.com Entertainment Memorabilia Session page 1: lot 1010 To bid via the internet please visit +1 (323) 436 5442 Session page 2: lot 1070 PREVIEW www.bonhams.com/24465 [email protected] Session page 3: lot 1187 Los Angeles Session page 4: lot 1109 Friday, November 3, Please note that telephone bids Claire Tole-Moir Session page 5: lot 1130 10am to 5pm must be submitted no later than Specialist Session page 6: lot 1166 Saturday, November 4, 4pm on the day prior to the London Session page 7: lot 1190 12pm to 5pm auction. New bidders must also +44 020 7393 3984 Session page 8: lot 1216 Sunday, November 5, provide proof of identity and [email protected] Session page 9: lot 1228 12pm to 5pm address when submitting bids. Session page 10: lot 1314 Dana Hawkes Session page 11: lot 1381 New York Please contact Client Services Consultant Inside back cover: lot 1074 Friday, November 17, with any bidding inquiries. +1 (978) 283 1518 Back cover: lot 1166 10am to 5pm [email protected] Saturday, November 18, Please see pages 172 to 176 12pm to 5pm for bidder information including Caren Roberts-Frenzel Sunday, November 19, Conditions of Sale, after-sale Cataloguer/Administrator 12pm to 5pm collection and shipment. Entertainment Memorabilia Monday, November 20, +1 (323) 436 5409 10am to 5pm [email protected] Tuesday, November 21, 10am to 1pm Justin Humphreys Consulting Cataloguer SALE NUMBER: 24465 Lots 1000 - 1408 CATALOG: $35 JOIN US FOR A LIVE DEMONSTRATION OF ROBBY THE ROBOT ON NOVEMBER 4 AT 2 PM IN OUR LOS ANGELES GALLERIES. © 2017, Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.; All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 © 2016, Bonhams & Butterfields Principal Autioneer: Matthew Girling. NYC License No. 1236798-DCA TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Letter by Ben Mankiewicz page 3 The Estate of Harper Goff: Disney’s Visionary page 4 Out of this World! Science Fiction and Horror Films page 30 Robby the Robot: Sci-Fi Icon and Director William Malone’s “Pal” by Roger Fristoe page 36 “Ha, Ha, Ha, Ho, Ho, Ho, and a Couple of Tra La Las”: Comedy and Musical Films page 48 Live and Let Love: Drama and Romance Films page 56 Detective Stories: Film Noir and Crime page 67 Property from the Estate of Emmanuel Gerard page 72 Property from the Estate of Peter Falk page 74 Tough Guys Wear Tights: Swashbucklers and Superheroes page 84 True Grit: Western Films and the Modern Cowboy page 94 Property from the Estate of James Gammon page 98 Studio Business page 102 “Fasten Your Seatbelts!” The Estate of Joseph Mankiewicz page 108 Leading Men and Leading Ladies page 127 Animation Art: The Property of a Gentleman, Part II page 144 Welcome to another intriguing auction from Bonhams and Turner Classic Movies... I’ll begin with this question: In roughly ten decades of It’s been a busy year for TCM’s partnership with writing about Hollywood, have Robby the Robot and Bonhams. We collaborated on “Rock & Roll Through the Joseph L. Mankiewicz ever been included in the same Lens” in March, then followed it up with “An Important sentence? Or did you just read Hollywood history? Animation Art Collection: The Property of A Gentleman” in June. We’re thrilled that you’re joining us once again. Both Robby and Joe will be featured at the “Out of This World” auction. Robby will be there, quite literally— There’s so much selection at this auction, it’s hard to the original Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, know what to highlight, but here are a couple of items the groundbreaking science fiction film from 1956. that jumped out at me: a lightsaber (a lightsaber!) Forbidden Planet was one of the first big budget sci-fi from Return of the Jedi, a George Reeves Superman pictures released in color by a major studio. It was costume from Adventures of Superman, and an original MGM’s first sci-fi movie of any kind. The list of science Harper Goff scrapbook from his work on 20,000 fiction creators influenced by Forbidden Planet is Leagues Under the Sea. long and illustrious: Roddenberry, Lucas, Spielberg, Cameron. You can find all the great memorabilia available for auction inside the pages of this catalogue. What you Alongside Robby, a number of items from the estate won’t find anywhere is a copy of Joe Mankiewicz’ of my great uncle, Joe Mankiewicz, will be available for More About Eve, starring Robby the Robot. TCM and auction. These include custom-bound scripts for many Bonhams make a great team, but we have our limits. of Joe’s pictures, including All About Eve; a handwritten Thanks for coming! draft of his script for The Barefoot Contessa; Joe’s director’s chair; and a Golden Globe for All About Eve. Ben Mankiewicz Here’s a fact few people know about Joe Mankiewicz and Robby the Robot. Joe was planning a sequel to All About Eve in 1961—Eve would be living in a Beverly Hills mansion with Robby as her butler. But when Joe was offered Cleopatra, he shelved More About Eve, never returning to it. Here’s another fact: None of that is true, but be honest, you’d watch. THE Estate OF HARPER GOFF, DISNEY’S visionary By Justin Humphreys Few people know Harper Goff’s name, but untold Disney asked Goff to prepare conceptual paintings for millions love his creations: The stunning Victorian an undersea film he was planning using Jules Verne’s Nautilus submarine of 20,000 Leagues Under the title 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea but jettisoning Sea (1954); Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise; the Proteus Verne’s story. Instead, Goff took the initiative to paint submarine of Fantastic Voyage (1966); the wildly illustrations based directly on Verne’s novel. Despite inventive world of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate initial reservations, Disney chose to adapt the book Factory (1971); and EPCOT Center’s World Showcase. as his studio’s very first full-length live-action feature, Goff was a true renaissance man: A production and also one of the very first features to be filmed in designer, accomplished illustrator, architect, actor, and Cinemascope. The mega-budget movie was a huge banjo player for Walt Disney’s popular Firehouse Five gamble, and Goff made every penny of its sumptuous Plus Two. production values come vividly alive onscreen. Goff’s crowning achievement was the film’s centerpiece, Born in Ft. Collins, Colorado, Goff was raised there and Captain Nemo’s (James Mason) rococo submarine, in Santa Ana, California. After studying at the Chouinard the supremely Victorian Nautilus, a fearsomely elegant Art Institute, he contributed illustrations to magazines masterpiece of design. The film won an Academy like Esquire and Colliers. Goff began work in film as Award® for Best Art Direction–Decoration, Color. a production illustrator at Warner Brothers where he Tragically, since Goff was not a union member, he contributed to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) and received neither a nomination nor a trophy. Casablanca (1942), among many others. Goff’s film design work remained consistently varied In 1951, a chance encounter at a London hobby shop and excellent, whether he was crafting the authentically changed Goff’s life forever. Goff was interested in a Norse world of The Vikings (1958) or the Jazz Age milieu model train and discovered it was already spoken for by of Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955). In 1969, Goff’s incredible Walt Disney himself. The two met and Goff discovered imagination ran wild in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate that Disney was familiar with his magazine illustrations. Factory. Goff outdid himself concocting Wonka’s Disney hired him soon after, and Goff began intensively wildly intricate, Rube Goldberg-like inventions: The working on designing Disneyland that very year. (Goff’s Wonkamobile; the Wonkavator; the S. S. Wonkatania; original pencil drawings of an alternate vision of the park and many other whimsical wonders. It would be his final are available in this auction.) As a key Imagineer, Goff film assignment, and one of his lasting masterworks. contributed to Disney’s international theme parks up Bonhams is proud to offer many of Goff’s previously until his final years. In 1993, Goff was officially declared unpublished concept drawings from that film, and many a Disney Legend. other extraordinary items from the estate of this highly influential genius. 1000 A BUST OF HARPER GOFF Molded plaster bust, hollow, unpainted, with engraved signature (“Salvatore C. Pietro 69”). A bust of Goff, bearded, by Los Angeles- based sculptor Salvatore Pietro, which Goff displayed at his home. 9 x 9.5 x 20.5 in. $1,500 - 2,000 1001 A HARPER GOFF HAND-ILLUSTRATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 1000 HIS EARLY LIFE, TITLED UNLIKELY COWBOY Approximately 105 illustrations, mostly Xerographic reproductions hand-colored with acrylics and watercolors, various sizes, with 6 small original pen and ink drawings on tracing paper, with handwritten captions throughout, 1985-1986, 58 pp (44 pp feature art), pp 1-41 hand-numbered in ink, with 2 original photographs, silver gelatin prints, 1 loose typed page of autobiographical notes, housed in a large blue photo album with a tab taped to inner front cover labeled “Unlikely Cowboy” in green marker.