Foyer Pleasure: The Golden Age of Cinema Lobby Cards
London: Aurum Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated). Oblong oversized hardcover. 159 pp. Illustrated throughout with color full page reproductions of original movte lobby cards. Fine in very good dust jacket. An illutrated history of movie theater lobby cards from the earliest, simplistic early silent era cards though the eye-catching, lavish and imaginative cards of the 1930s and 40s. Featured are stars such as Douglas Fairmanks, Mary Pickford, Valentino, Lon Chaney, Sr., and Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Dietrich, through the years of Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, and Bogie. Some of the rare cards reproduced are for films like Ben Hur, Don Juan, the famed lost Lon Chaney film London After Midnight, The Canary Murder Case with Louise Brooks as the "canary", Frankenstein, Werewolves of London, Tarzan, I'm No Angel, Disney's Snow White, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon. fine / very good. Item #E20880
ISBN: 9780906053331
Price: $20.00