Search Results: Dance from Royal Books, Inc.

New York: Chappell Music Company, 1975. Vintage Radio City Music Hall program for a series of Easter concerts and performances in conjunction with the showing of the 1975 film, from the week beginning Thursday, March 6, 1975. Peter Bogdanovich's tribute to Cole Porter and the musicals of the 1930s. Shot using nearly all black and white costumes and sets, and featuring only occasional splashes of color, with musical sequences and songs performed live for the camera, the film was much maligned at the time of its release, and was box office bomb. It was reappraised when released on Netflix in 2011, garnering a newfound respect and popularity. Two socialite couples change partners at a party in an attempt to make the others jealous. 6 x 9 inch Bi-fold. Fine.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 film, showing actors Jacques D'Amboise and Sheree North in a deep dancer's dip. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on the careers of Broadway songwriting trio DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, who rose to popularity in the early 20th century. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall.

Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing, 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on J.E. Franklin's 1969 play. The youngest daughter in a working-class African American family dreams of becoming a dancer, and is determined to avoid the fate of her mother and two older sisters, who married and had children at a young age, and who express dissatisfaction and frustration with their stagnant lives. One of the few Blaxsploitation films of the 1970s to depict the everyday lives and dreams of blue collar Black women. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howard, Blaxploitation Cinema, p. 97-98.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Revised Final Script for the 1934 pre-Code film musical. A stylish Paramount musical that, unlike so many others from its time, came with a great storyline. George Raft rises from coal mine laborer to top dancer in prewar Europe. While weaving his way through romantic entanglements (including a fling with Sally Rand, who performs her famous fan dance here), he secures his own nightclub, at which point he meets the real love of his life, Carole Lombard (after asking her to audition in her underwear in his hotel room). A pre-Code gem that seems almost to have been designed to push the censors' buttons, simultaneously one of the raciest and moodiest "A" musicals produced by this studio. Tall self-wrappers as issued, stamped FILE COPY and RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC., on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 171, and dated November 8, 1933. Manuscript pencil notation at the top left corner reading, "P 980." Credits on the front… Read More

London: Anthony D'Offay Gallery, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Jasper Johns which ran from October 31 to December 2, 1989 at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, and from January 23 to March 25, 1990 at the Tate Gallery. Near Fine in wrappers.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1985. Double weight photograph from the 1985 film. With the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso, his numerical manuscript pencil notation, and a snipe identifying the image. Struck by Pappe circa 1990s, from his archive. Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years, photographing a who's who of film and music stars, including iconic images of Sharon Tate, Jimi Hendrix, and Liza Minnelli, as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album, and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Based on the 1975 Broadway musical, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante. Nominated for three Academy Awards. 14 x 11 inches, with wide margins. Near Fine.

Paris: N.p., 1920. Collected archives of 40 vintage photographs of notorious vaudeville performers Rosie and Jenny Dolly, known professionally as The Dolly Sisters, taken throughout the 1910s and 1920s. Consisting of ten small archives of photographs assiduously assembled over a period of time, with multiple photographers' stamps and signatures on the versos and rectos, respectively. The collection represents a veritable who's who of portrait photographers of the early twentieth century, including Walery, Ruben Sobol, Apeda Studio, The Campbell Studio, Frank Foulsham and A.C. Banfield, Ira D. Schwarz, and James Abbe. Many have been SIGNED directly by the photographers in manuscript pencil on the rectos in addition to the photographer's stamp on the verso. Five photographs note the name of Paris Plaisirs, an early French music and dance magazine, on the bottom right corners of the rectos. Especially notable in the collection is a photograph credited to Walery that has been INSCRIBED by the sisters… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Two vintage reference photographs of actress Leslie Caron from the 1955 film. Each photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. A man anonymously pays for an 18-year-old French orphan to go to college in New England. After years of writing him letters with no response, he meets her without revealing his identity and they fall in love. Set in France, New York City, and the fictional town of Walston, Massachusetts, shot on location in New York City, Paris, and at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with some creasing to the edges and one photograph with slight wear to the finish.

N.p.: N.p., 1936. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A newsboy meets a professional dancer and the pair become highly respected in the couples dance circuit in New York City, before the newsboy's boss desires the dancer for himself and sends the newsboy to cover the dance circuit nationwide in order to get him out of the picture. Untitled manila wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of the script, dated April 22, 1936, with credits for screenwriter Rivkin. 12 leaves, mimeograph on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, side stiched.

N.p.: Trans-Lux, 1954. Vintage black and white studio still photograph from the 1954 British film. A prima ballerina suffers a devastating car crash as a result of her husband's exploitative behavior, and is forced to learn how to use her legs again with the help of a kind doctor. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1932 film. Based on the novel by Sarah Addington. A pair of hard-up dancers in Boston struggle to make their big break, only to find themselves drawn apart by wealthy socialites, and unhappier, when they finally do. Pale blue studio wrappers, dated January 5th, 1932, noting footage of 7500 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus condition.

New York: D. Appleton, 1931. First Edition. First Edition. Author's first novel, after a series of children's books in the 1920s. After graduating from Earlham she attended Columbia University where she graduated as the only women of the first class of the Pulitzer School of Journalism. Addington worked as manuscript and copy reader, and a series of free lance articles garnered her a position with The New York Sun. From 1921 to 1923 she was on the staff of The Ladies Home Journal which printed her series of "Pudding Lane," stories for juvenile readers, afterwards published in book form. Her only other novel, "Hound of Heaven," was published in 1935. Basis for the 1932 Sidney Lanfield film of the same name, starring James Dunn and Sally Eilers. A story set in New York about two hungry dancers and their efforts to conquer Broadway. Very Good in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Spine lean, foxing to the page edges, and a few faint stains to the boards. Toning and faint staining… Read More

N.p.: Daniel Carson Goodman, 1923. Vintage reference photograph from the 1923 film, showing actress Mildred Harris performing with other dancers in a cabaret scene. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A dancer wrongfully accuses one of her young suitors of killing her lover, a boxer. Clara Bow's fourth film appearance. Currently considered a lost film. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Collection of 25 vintage reference photographs from the 1985 film. A multiethnic group of pizza delivery boys are united by their shared interest in break dancing. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. McPadden, Teen Movie Hell.

Avignon, France: Avignon Festival, 1976. Original poster for the seminal 1976 four-act avant-garde opera directed by Robert Wilson and composed by Philip Glass. "Einstein on the Beach" premiered on July 25, 1976, at the Festival d'Avignon in France, performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble and presented by the Byrd Hoffmann Foundation. It was also staged that summer in Hamburg, Paris, Belgrade, Venice, Brussels, and Rotterdam. In November of the same year, it made its American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. One of Wilson's most well-known works, a quintessentially minimalist, formalist opera, as well as a turning point in American theater. Though rife throughout with symbols from Einstein's life and work, there is no direct plot line attached to him in the opera-instead he is portrayed predominantly as a historical figure. Also the first instance of Wilson's entr'acte vignettes, which he calls "knee plays." The piece was Glass' first and longest opera score, approximately five… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Draft script for an unproduced musical. With a single copied annotation to page 1-P-1. The mishaps and adventures of a teenage runaway who leaves his relatively peaceful home in Massachusetts to join the wacky, drug-fueled world of 1970s New York. Set in Massachusetts and New York. Navy titled wrappers. Title page present, dated January 1971, with credits for playwright Kingsley Rogers Rotardier. 67 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-4-64. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1984. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the United States release of the 1985 film. A group of country kids come to New York City intending to "make it big" by competing in a dance competition. However, upon arrival, they are faced with an array of unexpected problems that threaten their dreams of stardom. Set in New York City, shot on location in Los Angeles and New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1947 film musical. With a snipe and a stamp for the Advertising Advisory Council to the verso. A famed matador leaves town in an attempt to focus on his music, unaware that his twin sister has secretly taken his place in the bullfighting ring. A rare appearance of actor Esther Williams in a non-aquatic role, and the first of three films starring Williams and actor Ricardo Montalban. Set and shot on location in Puebla, Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1935. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1935 film, showing a bevy of showgirls posed on an enormous, tiered stage prop in grand Busby Berkeley-inspired fashion. Based on the 1934 play "The Red Cat," by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, about a case of mistaken identity between a music hall performer and a socialite tycoon. A French-language version of the film was also produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Maurice Chevalier and Sim Viva. Set at the Folies Bergère, a Parisian music hall. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, with moderate wear at the corners and faint toning overall.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Collection of three vintage photographs and one borderless publicity photograph from the 1944 musical film. A musical revue about a former vaudeville star who decides to try his luck at Hollywood. Notable for its extensive celebrity cameos, including appearances by Orson Welles, Lon Chaney Jr., Dinah Shore, Noah Beery Jr., The Andrews Sisters, Jeanette MacDonald, and Maria Montez, among many more. Set in Hollywood. Three 8 x 10 inches, one 6.75 x 9 inches. Very Good plus, several lightly and evenly toned, one with a short closed tear to the top left corner.