TCM Presents: The Dark Side of Hollywood Side of The Dark Presents: TCM I New York I November 20, 2018 New York Bonhams 580 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 24838 Presents +1 212 644 9001 bonhams.com The Dark Side of Hollywood AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1793 New York | November 20, 2018 TCM Presents... The Dark Side of Hollywood Tuesday November 20, 2018 at 1pm New York BONHAMS Please note that bids must be ILLUSTRATIONS REGISTRATION 580 Madison Avenue submitted no later than 4pm on Front cover: lot 191 IMPORTANT NOTICE New York, New York 10022 the day prior to the auction. New Inside front cover: lot 191 Please note that all customers, bonhams.com bidders must also provide proof Table of Contents: lot 179 irrespective of any previous activity of identity and address when Session page 1: lot 102 with Bonhams, are required to PREVIEW submitting bids. Session page 2: lot 131 complete the Bidder Registration Los Angeles Session page 3: lot 168 Form in advance of the sale. 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Consultant SALE NUMBER +1 (978) 283 1518 24838 [email protected] Lots 100 - 473 Caren Roberts-Frenzel CATALOG Cataloguer +1 (323) 436 5409 $35 [email protected] BIDS Rachel Zimmermann 1-212-644-9001 Administrator, Los Angeles 1-212-644-9009 fax +1 (323) 436 5506 [email protected] To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com/24838 Bonhams Bonhams International Board Bonhams US Board )VUOHTZ )\[[LYÄLSKZ 4HSJVST)HYILY*V*OHPYTHU 4HSJVST)HYILY*OHPY*V*OHPYTHU :JV[3L]P[[+PYLJ[VYVM-PUL(Y[Z (\J[PVULLYZ*VYW"(SSYPNO[ZYLZLY]LK *VSPU:OLHM+LW\[`*OHPYTHU 4H[[OL^.PYSPUN.SVIHS*,6 4LNHU5VO:LUPVY*V\UZLS )VUK5V):).3 4H[[OL^.PYSPUN*,6 1VUH[OHU-HPYO\YZ[*-6 *H[OLYPUL>PSSPHTZVU+PYLJ[VYVM 7YPUJPWHS(\J[PVULLY!4H[[OL^.PYSPUN 7H[YPJR4LHKL.YV\W=PJL*OHPYTHU 9\WLY[)HUULY=PJL7YLZPKLU[PU5L^@VYR -PUL)VVRZHUK4HU\ZJYPW[Z (ZHWO/`THU*HYVSPUL6SPWOHU[ +LZZH.VKKHYK=PJL7YLZPKLU[ HUK,U[LY[HPUTLU[4LTVYHIPSPH 3PJLUZL5V +*( ,K^HYK>PSRPUZVU.LVќYL`+H]PLZ1HTLZ2UPNO[ HUK+PYLJ[VYVM(ZPHU(Y[ 3LZSPL>YPNO[+PYLJ[VYVM[OL;Y\Z[Z 1VU)HKKLSL`1VUH[OHU-HPYO\YZ[3LZSPL>YPNO[ 1HRVI.YLPZLU/LHKVM)VUOHTZ ,Z[H[LZ+LWHY[TLU[ 9\WLY[)HUULY:OHOPU=PYHUP:PTVU*V[[SL <:4V[VYPUN+LWHY[TLU[ TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Letter from Ben Mankiewicz page 3 The Origins of Cinema page 4 “Ha-Ha-Ha, Ho-Ho-Ho, and a couple of Tra-la-las”: Comedy and Musical Films page 12 “Build My Gallows High, Baby”: Drama and Suspense Films page 24 The Dark Side of Hollywood: Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Films page 33 Leading Men page 52 “William Powell: The Ultimate Sophisticate” by Roger Fristoe page 62 Leading Ladies page 84 Property Originally from the Estate of Mary Pickford page 101 Behind the Camera: Writers, Directors, and Producers in Hollywood page 116 Drawn to Film: Animation Art page 142 Welcome to another intriguing auction from Bonhams and Turner Classic Movies... Another TCM/Bonhams auction is upon us – and with it was long certain she’d seen handwritten early drafts of comes your opportunity to enhance your surroundings Joe’s most famous picture, All About Eve, the Oscar with a piece of movie history. Bonhams is calling this winner for Best Picture for 1950, in addition to a typed year’s auction “The Dark Side of Hollywood,” otherwise final script. But when Alex looked for them to include in known as Hollywood. last year’s auction, they were nowhere to be found. As you flip through these pages, you’ll soon discover the She assumed her memory was playing tricks on her rationale behind calling it “The Dark Side of Hollywood.” because a more logical explanation was staring her in the Offerings include director Tod Browning’s personal face. When the family moved back east from Los Angeles photographs from the seminal pre-Code horror classic in the 1950s, long before Alex was born, the moving van Freaks. You can also go home with one of a number caught fire and a number of items were lost, including of zombie costumes from Michael Jackson’s game- Joe’s journals. But “then fate moved its huge hand” (not changing music video for Thriller, directed by John really, but I like to quote the opening sequence of The Landis. There’s also Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula cape Fugitive whenever possible). In the 1990s, Joe donated – but it’s from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, so most of his archives to the Academy library. Not long after I’m not sure that counts as dark. last year’s auction, Alex got a call she didn’t expect. I’m paraphrasing, but I imagine it went something like this, And rest assured, it’s not all darkness. Included is a “Hey, Alex, this is Barry from the Academy. So we have signature piece of “Little Tramp” memorabilia from Charlie an original typed All About Eve script, plus a number of Chaplin’s estate: a knobby cane. In addition, the trench drafts in spiral notebooks handwritten by Joe. Do you coat worn by Nick Charles in the final picture of The want them?” She did. And now we can pose the same Thin Man series, Song of the Thin Man, can be yours. Technically, I suppose William Powell wore the coat. It’s question to you, “Do you want them?” Because one year part of a treasure trove of memorabilia from Powell’s later, they’re among the items included in this auction. estate, including a hand-made desk – a hutch – that Powell made himself in high school shop class in 1907. Alex has also graciously allowed the Academy to make There’s also a bible belonging to Powell’s second wife, an digital copies of the entire All About Eve archive, so film actress some of you may know: Carole Lombard. It has a scholars can study it for generations. memorable monogram: “Carole Lombard Powell.” It’ll go nicely with a set of Powell/Lombard divorce papers from Just think of the possibilities Bonhams and TCM are 1933 – I suppose that’s a different take on “The Dark Side presenting: You and your friends sitting around William of Hollywood.” Powell’s high school desk, many of you dressed in Thriller costumes, reading aloud from an early Joe Mankiewicz This year’s Bonhams/TCM auction includes a few handwritten draft of All About Eve, pausing only to argue significant pieces of Hollywood history from my family over who gets to wear Bela Lugosi’s cape to the New that grew out of last year’s auction, which featured Year’s Eve costume party. memorabilia from the estate of my great uncle, Joe Mankiewicz. Joe’s daughter, my cousin Alex Mankiewicz, Ben Mankiewicz The Origins of Cinema 100 AN ORIGINAL LUMIÈRE BROTHERS 35MM MOTION PICTURE NEGATIVE An original Lumière Brothers 35mm motion picture negative which ran through a motion picture camera, c.1895, together with a blowup photo of the 3 frames of the negative, matted and framed. The Lumière Brothers hailed from France and were responsible for many patented techniques related to film cameras and projection, such as allowing negatives to spool through a film projector utilizing film perforations and inventing the 100 Cinematograph, which allowed more than one person at a time to view a film. Additionally, the 16-frames-per-second standard for 35mm was created by them. The negative pictures a group of people on what looks like a cold fall day, arranging themselves for a group picture. 12.5 x 18.5 in. $800 - 1,000 101 A GEORGES MÉLIÈS GROUP OF EPHEMERA INCLUDING AN ORIGINAL DRAWING AND HANDWRITTEN LETTERS Comprising an ink and graphite drawing by Méliès featuring a prototype of the man- eating frost giant featured in Méliès’ film, The Conquest of the Pole (1912), drawn on the reverse side of his monogrammed stationery.