Entertainment Memorabilia, 3 July 2013, Knightsbridge, London
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Bonhams Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax 20771 Entertainment Memorabilia, Entertainment 3 July 2013, 2013, 3 July Knightsbridge, London Knightsbridge, Entertainment Memorabilia Wednesday 3 July 2013 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London International Auctioneers and Valuers – bonhams.com © 1967 Danjaq, LLC. and United Artists Corporation. All Rights reserved courtesy of Rex Features. Entertainment Memorabilia Wednesday 3 July 2013 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London Bonhams Enquiries Customer Services The following symbol is used Montpelier Street Director Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm to denote that VAT is due on the hammer price and buyer’s Knightsbridge Stephanie Connell +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 premium London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3844 www.bonhams.com [email protected] Please see back of catalogue † VAT 20% on hammer price for important notice to bidders and buyer’s premium Viewing Senior Specialist Sunday 30 June Katherine Williams Illustrations * VAT on imported items at 11am to 3pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3871 Front cover: Lot 236 a preferential rate of 5% on Monday 1 July [email protected] Back cover: Lot 109 hammer price and the prevailing 9am to 4.30pm Inside front cover: Lot 97 rate on buyer’s premium Consultant Specialist Inside back cover: Lot 179 Tuesday 2 July W These lots will be removed to Stephen Maycock 9am to 4.30pm Bonhams Park Royal Warehouse Wednesday 3 July +44 (0) 20 7393 3844 after the sale. 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The third party must present a photographic form of ID when collecting. 1 Entertainment Memorabilia | 3 2 1 3 (part) 3 (part) Vintage Film Posters & Film Memorabilia 1 3 Felix The Cat: A rare ‘Felix Kept on Golden Age of Hollywood: A collection Walking’ advertising display, of autographed pieces of sheet music, circa 1923, including: the painted composition figure of Felix on Art Blue Skies signed in blue ink by Bing Crosby Deco style base, with raised lettering ‘FELIX and Fred Astaire; Shall We Dance signed by KEPT ON WALKING words by Ed E Bryant, Fred Astaire; Gold Diggers of 1933 signed Music by Hubert W David, The Lawrence and inscribed in green ink by Ginger Rogers; Wright Music Co, Denmark Street, London As Time Goes By signed by Ingrid Bergman WC’, height 16 inches (41cm) in black ink and Horse Feathers signed by £800 - 1,200 Groucho Marx in black ink, four framed, 9 x 12 €930 - 1,400 inches (23x30cm) (5) £500 - 600 After first appearing in ‘The Feline Follies’ in €580 - 700 1919, Felix became the biggest animated star of the 1920s, and one of the first instantly Provenance: Ex lot 71, Rock & Roll and recognisable animated film characters. Entertainment Memorabilia, Christies - New York, Friday 17 December 2004. By the early 1920s Felix was appearing in his own comic strip and on merchandise. ‘Felix 4 Kept on Walking’ released in 1923, was hugely On The Avenue, popular and the biggest selling record in the Twentieth Century Fox, 1937, UK during that year. U.S. one-sheet poster, together with three jumbo lobby cards, the poster 27 x 41 inches Provenance: Formerly from the collection of (69x104cm) (4) 4 British composer Lawrence Wright (1888-1964). £500 - 600 €580 - 700 2 Laurel and Hardy: A large autographed photograph, the black and white publicity photography signed and inscribed in blue ink ‘HELLO MARGARET! Stan Laurel. Oliver Hardy’, 10 x 8 inches (25.5x20cm.) £400 - 600 €470 - 700 4 | Bonhams 6 7 (part) 7 Various Film Stars: An autographed ‘Paramount Continental Cafe’ menu and photographs, 1940s, the front cover of the menu signed by, amongst others, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Fred Macmurray, Jerry Colonna; together with nine autographed 8 x 10 black and white publicity stills, most with credits to reverse including Michele Morgan by George Hurrell, other sitters include Rita Hayworth, Joan Bennett, Simone Simon and Olivia de Havilland, menu 7½ x 11 inches (19x28cm) closed £400 - 600 €470 - 700 8 Charlie Chaplin: A dialogue continuity script for ‘A Countess From Hong Kong’ 1967, from the collection of his assistant Jerome ‘Jerry’ Epstein, 8 87 pages of mimeographed typed script, in teal coloured card cover, dated 12th August, 1966, together with fourteen stills relating to the production and Chaplin (15) £250 - 350 €290 - 410 5 Jerome ‘Jerry’ Epstein was Chaplin’s assistant and collaborator, working with him on his last 5 three productions. Epstein was credited as a In Old Chicago, producer on ‘A Countess From Hong Kong’, Twentieth Century Fox, 1937, a role which Chaplin did not credit any of his U.S.