Important Collection of Cinema & Rare Books at Auction
Saturday, November 13th -- 2PM (EST)
Public Preview: Day of sale 11AM-2PM (EST)
179 Temple Hill Road (Route 300), New Windsor, NY 12553
LINK TO BIDDING ON-LINE: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/23087
CINEMA - THE AUCTION
The Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema -- Part VIII
MOVIE POSTERS - AMERICAN & FOREIGN; LOBBY CARDS; AN ABUNDANCE OF AUTOGRAPHS;
SCRIPTS AND ISP'S; STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY
PHOTOGRAPHERS; 1,000'S OF MOVIE STILLS; RARE FIRST EDITION AND SIGNED BOOKS;
CONTRACTS AND OTHER MEMORABILIA including in this sale RARE SHEET MUSIC. Rare
books. Signed books. American and British literary first editions. Limited
Editions.
Auctioneers Note: Gene Andrewski, collector of cinema extraordinaire was
introduced to classic literature at age seven by his mother and soon developed
his own flair for writing. This skill was put to use in one of his early jobs
writing narratives for news reels projected in between double features at the
movies. An imaginative and creative writer, he later became the first managing
editor of The Paris Review working alongside George Plimpton and others.
In November, 2009, Joanne Grant, principal auctioneer at Mid-Hudson Auction
Galleries, announced the acquisition of THE GENE ANDREWSKI COLLECTION OF CINEMA
for several auctions. Seven auctions have already taken place! The entire
collection is being sold without reserve or minimum bids making this series of
sales almost unprecedented in the industry.
The Andrewski collection consists of more than 20,000 items. Included are
movie posters, lobby cards and window cards as well as jumbo, mini and midget
cards. Gene Andrewski was largely responsible for introducing midget-window
card collecting to the field. Also included are press books, promotional items
and 30,000 photographs and negatives. In the cache of studio negatives are
Marilyn Monroe rarities. Among the portraits of Hollywood Glamour Era
actresses are several by Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Elmer Fryer, Ernest
Bachrach, Ray Jones, Willinger and other noted photographers. A substantial
autograph collection is to be presented including inscribed photos, double
stock and single weight as well as signed letters, contracts, scripts and other
movie memorabilia. The 20’s, 30’s and 40’s of Hollywood cinema are strongly
represented in the Andrewski auctions.
Gene Andrewski, who was born in Oklahoma, died in 2005 at the age of 77, after
a highly successful career in the theatre including the May 15, 1962 revival of
Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City as well as
the presentation of Sandy Wilson’s Valmouth at the York Playhouse in New York
in 1960. He knew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway and moved among them.
Those things that he loved in the field of movie collecting were, as a result,
more accessible to him than to most. He was a former managing editor of The
Paris Review. He wrote, and contributed photographs to, many books including
The MGM Stock Company-The Golden Era; The Rise of the Crooners and Mae West (A
Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies).
An aficionado of Hollywood glamour and everything cinema related, Mr.
Andrewski’s collection “speaks” to that era of advertising .The collection is
historical in that it “tells” the story of how dreams were marketed in early
Hollywood. The posters had to attract the glimpse of the passer-by and capture
the attention of the stroller in a moment. The lithography of the early
posters is intense and spellbinding. Their message is difficult to capture in
today’s digital images and the posters become, indeed, vanishing works of art.
ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS SALE ARE PROPERTIES FROM
THE BUDDY McDANIEL COLLECTION
Buddy McDaniel was born and raised in Newton KS in 1929. At the age of 14 he
got a job taking tickets at the Fox Theater in Newton. He grew up enjoying
singing, watching movies, and acting in the theater. Little did he know that
the movie theater manager gave him his start in collecting as the owner threw
the movie posters and press books away after each movie starting in 1935. Buddy
would drag them home and save them in the back room of the hotel that his
mother, Lillian, managed close to the train station in Newton. This also led
to an extensive archive of some 12,000 photo’s and autographs of movie stars
and famous people as they traveled by train between 1920 and 1950 and would
stay at the hotel in Newton.
He spent 6 years singing on the John Frome show at Wichita’s ABC affiliate,
KAKE TV 10. This was a local talent search type show. Starting in the 60’s he
took some 18 trips to all the major cities in Europe to buy and sell posters
and memorabilia as well as shows in New York City. Many of these trips lasted 6
to 8 weeks each. The Hollywood glamour days of the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s are
strongly represented in the McDaniel collections of movie posters, stills,
movie magazines of all kinds, and 33, 45, and 78 records.
Mr. McDaniel has spent some 65 years collecting anything Hollywood related from
around the world. His collection speaks to the time and era when actors and
actresses were under contract to studios and how their lives were marketed;
these collections are historical in the way they tell the stories of Hollywood
which is difficult to capture in today’s digital images. These are vanishing
works of art. As he has moved to assisted living at age 80 and downsizes his
available space it gives the public and other collectors a real chance to catch
his “BUG” to obtain some of the finest books, records, and memorabilia from
Wichita Ks.
Sadly, Buddy McDaniel passed away this summer.
In association with live auctioneers, Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries will offer
live online bidding @ www.liveauctioneers.com. Prospective bidders must
register in advance in order to participate. Bidders may also bid by telephone
or by absentee bidding. There will be a 20% buyer’s premium. The catalogue for
the November 13th auction can be accessed at www.midhudsongalleries.com.
Inquiries may be directed to Joanne Grant, principal auctioneer at
mag2715...@aol.com or 914-882-7356.
Joanne C. Grant
Auctioneer / Appraiser
Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries
P.O. Box 305
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520
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