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Front Cover Illustration: BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Bunuel) See Page: 53 COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS 1. THE SAINT POSTER ARCHIVE New York: 1982-2004� Manhattan’s The Saint The artwork runs from the explicitly sexual was one of the premiere gay dance clubs in the to the romantic� Most of these posters were world� It stayed open from 1980 to 1988, after created during the era of the AIDS crisis� which it hosted pop up events� Details on request� This is a collection of 33 posters created for various different special events, including $8,500 various White Parties� – 2 – – 3 – COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS – 4 – – 5 – COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS 2. SHAKESPEARE IN FILM A collection of 166 ephemeral pieces, Many of the classic Shakespearean films are (programs, pressbooks, posters, photos, represented here, with examples of the work etc�), 1916-2015, from 66 films (and from 15 of George Cukor, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth different countries), most of them adaptations Branagh, Trevor Nunn, Julie Taymor, Max of Shakespeare plays, with a few from Reinhardt, and various others� Shakespeare’s contemporaries Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe, and a few othermovies Details on request� about Shakespearean actors� $9,500 – 6 – – 7 – LGBTQ LGBTQ 3. DOROTHY ARZNER 4. BILL TILDEN Hollywood: ca 1930-1937. Three 8 x 10” (20 x 25 Hollywood: ca 1935. Two 8 x 10” (20 x 25 cm.) cm.) photos, USA. One photo has diagonal creases photos, USA Keybook photos, double weight, near bottom and other signs of light handling, vg-; with punch holes in blank margin (as usual), both the other two are linen-backed keybook photos, stamped on verso “PHOTO BY JACK PASHKOVSKY near fine. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.” Near fine. In the 1930’s Arzner was the only woman Bill Tilden was one of the supreme tennis directing movies in the US� “It was no secret players of the 20th Century� He was also a gay within the industry that Arzner was a lesbian�” man� He was twice arrested on morals charges, (Mann, p� 74�) As in these photos, she always in 1946 and again in 1949� “Questions remain if appeared in “mannish” attire, with a short Tilden’s prosecution was based on the rumors haircut� Mayne, Directed by Dorothy Arzner� [about his sexuality], many published, and homophobic stereotypes�” (Wikipedia)� $1,250 $750 – 8 – – 9 – LGBTQ LGBTQ 5. (NOEL COWARD, SOURCE) (BEN HECHT, 6. ROCK HUDSON SCREENWRITER) DESIGN FOR LIVING [PRESSBOOK] UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL STAR 2 CUT-OUTS [PAPER Hollywood: Paramount Pictures: 1933. Folio, 34 pp., with supplement, 32 pp. Pressbook unfolded, DOLL BOOK] supplement folded once (as issued), both with Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman, 1957. Small folio, 12 some wear to spine of wrappers, overall near fine. ½ x 10 ½” (32 x 26 cm.) , pictorial wrappers, there is Although the film was still issued in the pre- a heavy crease on back cover, near fine, 6 pp� Code era, Paramount clearly anticipated By the mid-1950’s, Hudson had rapidly emerged censorship problems with Coward’s then- as a major star� His homosexuality, though an daring play about a menage a trois household, open secret in Hollywood, was unknown to and hence assigned Ben Hecht the job of the general public, and publications like this heavily sanitizing Coward’s work for the screen� bolstered his rugged, he-man image� Not in The pressbook is in itself an exceedingly scarce OCLC� book, and even more so when offered with the $750 voluminous supplement� The OCLC does not list any known copies of either the book or the supplement� $950 – 10 – – 11 – LGBTQ LGBTQ 7. GLEN OR GLENDA Hollywood: Screen Classics, 1953. Set of 25 8 x 10” documentary and with its forays into what we (20 x 25 cm.) silver gelatin photographs. Fine. would now describe as meta-fiction� Director Ed Wood’s directorial debut, and the Ephemera of any kind from the film is rare� I first American feature film about transsexual have only once before had a photo set from life� When rediscovered in the early-80s it was this film, and that was half of the size of this set� initially viewed as “so bad as to be good,” but an unbiased viewing of it now can be very $3,000 surprising, as, in its own way, it is a true avant- garde film, with its merging of fiction and – 12 – – 13 – LGBTQ LGBTQ 8. (KENNETH ANGER, FILMMAKER) MAGICK LANTERN CYCLE A Special Presentation in celebration of The Equinox Spring 1966 New York: Film-makers Cinematheque, [1966]. excerpt from work in progress KUSTOM KAR Wraps printed in Day-Glow orange, three leaves KOMMANDO� printed on different colored papers with 4 pages of text and 7 leaves, 6 of black and white stills from Anger was a part of the small underground Anger films, 1 of an Anger portrait. Lacking plastic of American experimental filmmakers who binder, minor rubbing to wrappers, very good. emerged after WWII� His explicitly queer sensibility was on display from the beginning of The program included four Anger films his career� (ANGER AQUARIUM ARCANIUM, FIREWORKS, EAUX D’ARTIFICE, SCORPIO RISING) and an $1,250 – 14 – – 15 – LGBTQ LGBTQ 9. (GORE VIDAL, SOURCE) MYRA BRECKENRIDGE REVISED 11. THE BITCHES FINAL SEPTEMBER 22, 1969� New York, 1972. 22 x 14” (56 x 36 cm.) poster. Hollywood: Twentieth Century Fox, 1969. Unfolded, with some light creases and other signs Quarto, printed studio wrappers, brad bound, of minor marginal handling, near fine. mimeograph, [2], 125 pp. Moderate wear This play by Eduardo Cortes was an all-male re- to yapped edges of wrappers, near fine in vg imagining of Clair Booth Luce’s THE WOMEN� It wrappers. gets discussed in Michael Schiavi’s CELLULOID Adapted from Vidal’s 1968 novel, a wild satire ACTIVIST: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF VITO RUSSO, about a recently transitioned transsexual where a Russo review of it gets quoted: “I woman, formerly Myron, now Myra, who arrives am tired of hearing about how all gays are in Hollywood to wreak various forms of havoc bitchy queens� I resent being represented as something I’m not�” (p� 109) Parish 162� Benshoff and Griffin,� pp 141-4� 26, No� 1�)� $500 $950 10. (TERRY GILLIAM, DIRECTOR) THE FISHER KING by Richard LaGravenese REVISED DRAFT March 16, 1990 Tri-New York: Tri-Star, 1990. Production company printed wrappers, brad bound, quarto, title hand- lettered on spine, light wear to yapped edges of AS IS wrappers, generally near fine in vg+ wrappers, 123 12. pp. New York: 1985. 22 x 14” (56 x 36 cm.) poster. Just Terry Gilliam’s sixth feature film, which contains about fine. an important gay supporting character, a AS IS was among the very first plays to deal homeless man obsessed with the musical with the unfolding catastrophe of AIDS� It GYPSY (a last-minute change from this script, opened off-Broadway on March 10, 1985, and where his passion is for CABARET)� was quickly moved to the Lyceum Theatre on $600 Broadway, on May 1, 1985� The play, by William S� Hoffman, depicts a group of friends living in New York City, all of them impacted in different ways by the disease� $650 – 16 – – 17 – LGBTQ LGBTQ 14. CHARLES PIERCE IN APPLAUSE [New York?]: 1974. 22 x 14” (56 x 36 cm.) poster, may have been the most famous American with light wear at marginal blank edges, overall transgendered performer of his generation very good+ or better. (he was famous for his Bette Davis, although it is said that, when Davis attended a Pierce Pierce here starred as Margo Channing in this act in which he did her, she claimed to be musical based on ALL ABOUT EVE� Pierce unimpressed)� made a strong impression in this part, and was considered by many one of the best of the $1,000 many performers who took on the role� Pierce 13. DAME JUDITH ANDERSON AS HAMLET Np: 1970. 20 x 14” (51 x 36 cm.) poster.