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Lot 760

A large group of vintage photographs from the estate of director Gordon Douglas

30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

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A large group of vintage photographs from the estate of director Gordon Douglas

Silver gelatin prints and some Polaroids, comprising approximately 188 smaller photographs, mostly 4 x 5 in, and 25 larger 8 x 10 in photographs, several signed and inscribed photographs, and a 15 x 20 in board signed and inscribed to Douglas by the cast and crew of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). Director Gordon Douglas' personal archive of behind-the-scenes photographs from his own films. Most depict Douglas working on-set with actors including Frank Sinatra and Doris Day in Young at Heart (1954), James Cagney in Come Fill the Cup (1951), Oliver Hardy and Harry Langdon in Zenobia (1939), and many of Douglas with Alan Ladd. Other stars pictured include Virginia Mayo, "Our Gang," Liberace, and Randolph Scott. Douglas' background directing comedy shorts for Hal Roach Studios is reflected in many gag photos, including several of him with Bobby Watson as Hitler taken while filming The Devil With Hitler (1942). The signed and inscribed photographs in this lot are mostly signed "To Cathy," likely Douglas's daughter, Catherine; they include James Cagney signed ("Jim Cagney"), two of Roy Rogers, and a behind-the-scenes still of Douglas directing Liberace in Sincerely Yours (1955), inscribed "To Helen and Ray, / I understand this / Sincerely Yours, / Liberace / October 1955" with an added sketch of a piano and candelabra. A commemorative card for Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is signed by 68 members of the film's cast and crew including James Cagney, Ward Bond, Barbara Payton, and screenwriter Harry Brown, with a cutout photograph of James Cagney laid in, and is headed "To Gordon Douglas / Director / (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) / from cast and crew."

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