CINEMA-THE AUCTION:
The Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema - Part XIII An abundance of celebrity 
photographs by the famed photographers,thousands of movie stills, autographs, 
contracts, original scripts & negatives.
  SEPTEMBER 17th, 2011 @ 2PM (EST) Exhibition Day of the Sale: 11AM till Sale 
Time To be held at: 

179 TEMPLE HILL ROAD (Rt 300)
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553    914-882-7356
 
LINK TO BIDDING ON-LINE: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/26286 
 
 
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.  Eleven 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.
 
In association with Live Auctioneers, Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries will offer 
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 can be 
accessed at www.midhudsongalleries.com. Inquiries may be directed to Joanne 
Grant, principal auctioneer at mag2715...@aol.com or 914-882-7356.
 
PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL. DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES TO 
mag2715...@aol.com.  Thank You!
Joanne C. Grant
Auctioneer / Appraiser
Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries
P.O. Box 305
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520

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