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Gallery of 1920’s Silent Film Actress Real Photo Postcards

September 12, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

AZO Postcard Back

Just under 100 silent film actresses from the early to mid 1920’s are shown in this gallery of vintage real photo postcards. Accompanying article includes links to sources for dating postcards.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: playles, postcards, real photo, rppc

Kashin Motion Picture Stars Variations

August 14, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Kashin Coral Lloyd

A customer recently contacted me about possible variations within the Kashin Publications boxed sets of Motion Picture Stars. Some fascinating discoveries as a variation is confirmed and more questions are raised about discrepancies in the Kashin checklists!

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles, News - Notes Tagged With: boxed sets, collectibles, kashin, movie cards, us

Nicholas Volpe and the 1962 Volpe Collection of Academy Awards Portraits

August 4, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti

Robert Donat by Nicholas Volpe

A brief biography of the portrait artist Nicholas Volpe (1911-1992), who was commissioned to illustrate the Academy Award Winners for Best Actor and Actress each year. Those portraits were collected and mass produced for resale in 1962 and are collectible today.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles, News - Notes Tagged With: Academy Awards, artists, best actor, best actress, Frank Sinatra, illustrations, los angeles dodgers, nicholas volpe, Oscars, portfolios, prints, the beatles, us

No More Freebies – Hollywood Stars Forced to Charge Fans for Photos Beginning 1929

June 16, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

After picking up a small collection of studio reply cards to 1930s movie fans requesting photos of their favorite film stars I discovered why the studios started charging a fee. 10 of the reply cards are shown as is the 1929 newspaper article explaining how the charge came to be.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: collecting, ephemera, fan photos, studios

Haven’t Seen These Before: Circa 1915-1917 Movie Cards

April 28, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Post includes a 50 image gallery of these early movie cards, similar to Kromo Gravure cards of the period, but I can’t prove that they were issued by that Detroit company.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: galleries, movie cards, Trading Cards, us

Harold Lloyd and Babe Ruth Ross Verlag postcard

April 22, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

The Bambino in street clothes and Speedy holding the baseball bat on this late 1920s Ross Verlag postcard featuring Babe Ruth and Harold Lloyd.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles, News - Notes Tagged With: babe ruth, germany, Harold Lloyd, movie collectibles, postcards, Ross Verlag

Sir Laurence Olivier in pictures. Press Photos 1946-1975

April 19, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

A picture post featuring seventeen vintage press photos all picturing Sir Laurence Olivier from the period between 1946 and 1975.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles, News - Notes Tagged With: Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, press photos, still photos, Vivien Leigh

1920’s Mack Sennett Comedies Arcade Cards

April 6, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Photos of all 20 of the early 1920’s Mack Sennett Comedies Arcade Cards that I came in possession of including identification of each of the otherwise mysterious bathing beauties.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: Arcade Cards, bathing beauties, Exhibits, Mack Sennett, us

Original vintage press photos of women screenwriters from the 1910s

April 3, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Sharing original vintage press photos of female screenwriters circa 1917. The team of Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. Margaret Mayo, married to Edgar Selwyn at the time Goldwyn Pictures was formed, is shown on two 1917 photos from that year of Goldwyn’s launch.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: Edgar Selwyn, Goldwyn, Jane Cowl, Jane Murfin, Margaret Mayo, Polly of the Circus, press photos, Sam Goldwyn, Smilin Through, still photography, still photos

1913 Picturegoer promotional advertising card featuring the Talmadge Sisters

March 26, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

A look at a 1913 postcard sized promotional advertising card featuring Norma and Constance Talmadge on front and an ad announcing the debut of The Picturegoer Magazine on back.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: advertising, Constance Talmadge, ephemera, movie collectibles, Norma Talmadge, picturegoer, uk

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