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Interesting story from Yahoo News:
(original link here: http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-movie-pin-collection-slated-auction-040534135.html)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Movie Star News amassed a staggering amount of film stills, posters and negatives over the past 73 years — nearly 3 million, including 1,500 prints of Bettie Page, known as the queen of pin-ups. But last week, the once-lively store in lower Manhattan was lifeless. The classic movie posters that once covered its narrow 2,000-square-foot space were rolled up or covered in cellophane, its bins and racks empty. Everything was packed up in cardboard boxes that lined the floor.
The legendary Manhattan store credited with creating pin-up art had sold its entire inventory to a Las Vegas collectibles company.
The collection, regarded as one of the largest of its kind, is headed for the auction block. It will be sold in a series of sales slated to begin next year. The bulk of the collection covers the years 1939 to 1979; 11,500 movies and 5,000 actors are represented.
"This is the most important photo archive of Hollywood in existence. There are tens of thousands of negatives that have never been reproduced," said Stuart Scheinman, co-owner of Entertainment Collectibles, which bought the collection. "There are images here that have never been seen by the public."
There are 2,000 original prints and negatives of Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando, 1,000 of Gary Cooper, 400 of Bette Davis, hundreds of movie images of "The Godfather" and "Gone With the Wind."
"This could literally take five to 10 years to go through it all," Scheinman said. He would only say the company purchased the collection for "seven figures." Its true value was anyone's guess, but he believed it easily was worth $150 million.
Movie Star News produced 8-by-10 glossy prints from the negatives, selling each for a few dollars in the store and through the mail. But the Internet has significantly cut down on demand.
"I make references to things when customers come in, and they have no idea what I'm talking about," said Ira Kramer, who took over the business that his mother, Paula, and uncle Irving Klaw, started in 1939. "Today, if you want a picture of a star you can go on the computer and download it. So what do you need me for?"
"The maintenance of the collection has been fastidious ... the way a fine library would maintain material," said Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey's and in charge of selling the collection.
As far back as the 1940s, Movie Star News had a mailing list of 100,000 names. World War II soldiers were big customers, buying prints for their lockers, Kramer said.
The entrepreneurial Klaw, who died in 1966, hit on the idea of selling pictures of Hollywood stars while operating a movie bookstore.
"He noticed that kids were tearing out the pictures of the movie stars, so he decided to sell their pictures rather than the books," Kramer said. Klaw started dealing directly with movie studios, RKO, Columbia and others, located in those days along Eleventh Avenue.
"He made arrangements to buy from them whatever they didn't want ... original negatives, original prints of 'Citizen Kane,' 'Three Stooges,'" he said. The studios were more than happy to be rid of the stuff for which they had no room.
Kramer's mother was the one who took the pin-up shots. But it was Klaw who launched that side of the business after a man approached him about making him a set of photographs of skimpily-clad girls posing with whips and ropes, said Kramer.
Page was Klaw's favorite model, and a suitcase of the 7-inch heels she wore in the photos, plus other bondage props, will be included in the auction.
The photos were tame by today's standards. In fact, the models were required to wear two pairs of underwear. But the FBI continuously harassed Klaw and he had to appear before the 1955 Senate Subcommittee on Obscene and Pornographic Materials.
"It was a big headache," Kramer said. Klaw finally decided to burn all the pin-up material — but Paula Klaw saved a lot of it.*
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Edited by: EugeniaH on Jul 30, 2012 9:46 AM
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When the board reads 0 guests and 0 users, and I'm using Firefox, I switch over to Internet Explorer and for some reason the stats read fine.
IE is also more responsive when I am posting. But if I'm trying to post and it gets stuck in "thinking" mode, if I go back to the index page of the forum I'm posting on, my post is there.
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Agreed. Sepiatone. He made my skin crawl in Clash by Night, but over time and seeing other movies, I've come to appreciate the shady characters he played ("Bad Day at Black Rock", etc.).
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*She's tough and she schemes*
I agree. I liked when this came out in the film because it had interesting possibilities, but it didn't go as far as I would have liked it to.
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*I loved the scene where Crawford gets into a shouting match with the girl and shoves her into the car.*
I liked that scene, too. Actually, I was hoping they would do more with Crawford "terrorizing" the teenager. Not that I enjoy cruelty, but Crawford was kind of "scary looking" in this film and it would have been fun to show her as 'monstrous'.
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I was going in the other direction with Eddie Cantor. I was watching Thank Your Lucky Stars and thought he was funny in the beginning, but then by the end he was really getting on my nerves...
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Arturo, that Edith Piaf got around.
Here she is with Barbara Stanwyck:
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Generally I don't watch like/watch The Dead End Kids, audrey. Not that I "hate" them, but their movies don't interest me.
I thought of another actress: Greta Garbo. I've seen *Grand Hotel* and *Ninotchka* but I couldn't understand her 'star appeal'. Then as recently as last week I saw *Camille* for the first time, and liked her a lot in that. It was a well-made movie, I was engaged by her acting, and she and Robert Taylor were a good fit together. I still don't call myself a big 'fan' of Garbo's, but repect her more after this movie.
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I still have yet to see *The Misfits*. I should check it out.
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Terrence, I agree with you that another actress could have done a better job, but I liked the idea of their casting someone so beautiful and so seemingly "perfect" on the outside, until *(SPOILER!)*.
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time goes on and you realize she isn't mentally stable, with evil intentions toward the little girl, etc.
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Thanks for the info! I previously knew Monroe mostly from her comedies. That's right, I forgot about Clash by Night, but she didn't really stand out to me in this film (just my opinion).
I want to add too, however, that she did make me laugh in her (very small) part in All About Eve.
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*Wait! I do have one. I never liked Marilyn Monroe, thinking her entire act was one cheap trick, until I saw NIAGARA and DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK.*
I was never a Monroe fan for the exact reason you stated above, and then another poster recommended that I see Niagara and DBTK. My opinion did go up, and I respect her for branching out into other areas besides comedy, but I do still prefer the work of other actresses.
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Adding: Among more recent movies, Naked Gun 33 1/3 is one belly laugh after the next for me. The best in the series. I saw this again yesterday.
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Her whole album Fumbling Toward Ecstasy is excellent; my favorite.
Here is another track from there, "Circle":
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Thinking further on "distinctive" voices, one that hasn't been mentioned is Judy Holliday's. Sure wouldn't lull me into relaxation, but it's used to great comic effect in *Born Yesterday*.
Harry (calling out): "BILLIE!!"
Billie: "Whaaaaaaaaat!"
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*Man, to me he looks like a glass of milk left out on the kitchen table for a couple of hours.*
*:^0* I've never heard it put quite that way... but no, I don't consider him a hunk!
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Quickly off the top of my head, in addition to many already mentioned, Tony Curtis and Dana Andrews.
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you for your confirmation on Wayne and Cooper, there are so many fans who are ready to crucify me for not adoring them.
*As I said, I respect their acting talents, but beyond that they're just not that interesting to me. And in some cases like Cooper's Love in the Afternoon , they're almost embarrassingly miscast. As you might say, I find them too much work.*
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I agree with you two on this as well. Try as I might, I just don't get Gary Cooper's appeal or others' claims of his "acting talent". And while I liked Wayne very much in *True Grit*, that was the only movie and I don't really have any strong opinions of his acting either way... But Westerns aren't my favorite genre, anyway.
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I'm a voice in the chorus who say that there were so many memorable, emotional scenes in this movie, but the one scene that always gets me is when Homer, in frustration and anger, shoves his arms/hooks through the window at the people who are staring at him. I first saw this as a young girl, and I never forgot it. Powerful and intense.
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I'm in your corner on this, willbefree. I don't like Jimmy Stewart. When he doesn't put me to sleep, he annoys me, and I also don't like his voice...
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Screwball comedies make me laugh out loud, but of course it varies depending on the film. But with the Marx Brothers, I consistently laugh out loud through all of their films. Even if the storyline isn't as good, Groucho's clever wordplay never fails to deliver.
Great topic!
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but his memories from the set may not be as accurate as he might remember them to be.
Maybe that's why Osborne used the words "seemed to be" (now I'm hoping I've quoted him directly! Already I've forgotten). He wasn't being completely committed to an opinion that he knew exactly what their relationship was. As you say, maybe others had a different story to tell.
...I'm now watching "I Saw What You Did". I hope someone whacks off Libby. She's annoying, lol. ]
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What's on tonight: JOAN CRAWFORD (in the 1960s)
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I agree with you, Hibi. Joan was as good as Bette in Baby Jane, though her role called for her to be 'quieter'. I felt such sympathy for Joan and she made me empathize with her helplessness. Joan's character was the perfect counterpoint to Bette's and showed even more how crazy Bette's character was.