Original Sheet Music (9×12) for the song “Over the Rainbow” sung in the Victor Fleming adventure fantasy, THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley. Perhaps the most famous movie song of all time, “Over the Rainbow,” with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, was sung by Garland in the film. The first album of songs from the film was issued by Decca Records in 1940 and featured only Garland from the cast singing “Over the Rainbow” and “The Jitterbug.” The Ken Darby Singers sang the rest of the songs on the album. It was not until 1958 that an official soundtrack recording was released. Although the photo shows the image slightly eclipsed, the real sheet music has not been trimmed in any way and is in very fine condition.

Original MGM One Sheet Poster, Style D, for the Ernst Lubtisch film THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan. There are two one sheets for this film, and this is the painterly style D. The other style has a comic caricature image of the two principals. According to THE MOTION PICTURE GUIDE: “While THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER does not come out and strike at the audience like the more spectacular TO BE OR NOT TO BE or HEAVEN CAN WAIT, this latter-period Lubitsch picture reaches out to the viewer’s heart. It is a rare moment in film when the characters on the screen perfectly reflect those people who are sitting in the theater watching them. But such is the case with THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. In the characters who work at [the shop] one can see all human emotions – happiness, love, devotion, dishonesty, jealousy, and sorrow. In a letter to Herman G. Weinberg, author of the directorial study THE LUBITSCH TOUCH, Lubitsch listed what he felt were the best pictures of his career. After citing TROUBLE IN PARADISE as his best film stylistically and NINOTCHKA as his sharpest satire, he mentioned THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER: ‘As for human comedy, I think I never was as good as in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. Never did I make a picture in which the atmosphere and the characters were truer than in this picture.’ ” The one-sheet is in fine plus to very fine condition, with some very minor toning. Colors are vivid. The poster is linen backed and has a short linen lip around the poster. Here is the rarer style poster for an already rare title, clearly one of the great Hollywood films. painterly style D. The other style has a comic caricature image of the two principals. According to THE MOTION PICTURE GUIDE: “While THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER does not come out and strike at the audience like the more spectacular TO BE OR NOT TO BE or HEAVEN CAN WAIT, this latter-period Lubitsch picture reaches out to the viewer’s heart. It is a rare moment in film when the characters on the screen perfectly reflect those people who are sitting in the theater watching them. But such is the case with THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. In the characters who work at [the shop] one can see all human emotions – happiness, love, devotion, dishonesty, jealousy, and sorrow. In a letter to Herman G. Weinberg, author of the directorial study THE LUBITSCH TOUCH, Lubitsch listed what he felt were the best pictures of his career. After citing TROUBLE IN PARADISE as his best film stylistically and NINOTCHKA as his sharpest satire, he mentioned THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER: ‘As for human comedy, I think I never was as good as in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. Never did I make a picture in which the atmosphere and the characters were truer than in this picture.’ ” The one-sheet is in fine plus to very fine condition, with some very minor toning. Colors are vivid. The poster is linen backed and has a short linen lip around the poster. Here is the rarer style poster for an already rare title, clearly one of the great Hollywood films.

Original MGM Stone Lithograph Six Sheet Poster (81×81) for the Clarence Brown war drama, WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (1944) starring Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowal, Frank Morgan, and a young Elizabeth Taylor. Before the United States entered World War II, Sir Alexander Korda as sent to Hollywood by Churchill to persuade his movie mogul friends to make movies with pro-British themes, and this film is part of that mission. Dunne plays a young American girl who comes to England and falls in love with the dashing Marshal, then loses him in the First World War. She decides to raise their son in England, only to have him go to war and die in battle. A tribute to the British and American soldiers who fought in World War II, the film features a massive cast of established actors and rising stars—including a 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor. This original unused stone lithograph six sheet poster is folded and in fine plus condition, with only some minor fold separations.

Original MGM Insert Poster (14×36) for the S. Sylvan Simon drama, WASHINGTON MELODRAMA (1941) starring Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor, and Dan Dailey. Morgan (who played multiple roles in THE WIZARD OF OZ — including the Wizard) plays a steel tycoon who is also the head of a relief organization and who gets mixed up in the murder of showgirl. Washington, D.C. is the setting for this juicy mix of scandal and blackmail. If you have a decorating scheme in mind, you might consider this poster with our insert of MANHATTAN MELODRAMA. This original insert poster is folded and in very fine condition.