Great exhibit in NYC. I wish I could attend. In my life I ONCE had 5 lobby cards and one insert. Happy collecting fellow MOPOers. Morrie
On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 9:23 AM Helmut Hamm <texasmu...@web.de> wrote: > Thanks for sharing, David. I wish I could go to NY and see these in person. > > This reminds of a CASABLANCA auction José Ma Carpio put together sometime > in the late 90s. I believe it was in New York, but I don‘t remember if he > worked for Christies or Sothebys at the time. Either one of them. > > José‘s idea was to offer as many CASABLANCA posters as he could get hold > of in a single auction, and he managed to find quite a few. This must‘ve > been before Mr. Lauder started collecting. I attended the auction, and it > was a modest success, to put it mildly. Quite frankly: It turned out to be > not a really good idea after all at the time, the market was still way too > small for a concept like that. I remember I had a German CASABLANCA in that > sale. José had convinced me to get it linenbacked and it passed at $1000 or > something. > > I had this poster for quite a while, and there was ZERO international > interest didn‘t have Bogart on it and the collectors in Germany refused it > because it was linenbacked, which was totally unacceptable at the time. I > eventually re-consigned it to Christies South Kensington and they sold it > for something like $7000 or so. I don‘t remember the exact amount, but they > sent me a hefty check that came quite unexpected. > > Helmut > > www.filmposter.net > > > Gesendet: Samstag, den 03.12.2022 um 05:00 Uhr > > Von: "David Kusumoto" <davidmkusum...@hotmail.com> > > An: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > > Betreff: Re: [MOPO] Casablanca collection on display in NYC > > > > I don't know why I even bother anymore - *he said crankily* - but here > it is. Up on my web host for just a couple of days. The NYT writer couldn't > help but inject a panoply of contemporaneous political "echos" / "teachable > moments" normally reserved for the political opinion pages - nevertheless, > the few pics featured are nice. (If the images don't show up, lemme know > and I'll post direct links.) -d. > > > > < > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimagizer.imageshack.com%2Fimg923%2F8607%2F8TBDhj.jpg&data=05%7C01%7C%7C397e8f8c298643702bc608dad4e26515%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638056366076954345%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=N94BsNfug6QdFBwoCaY3RtL3XePrR2nN17hn%2B2LxL%2Fg%3D&reserved=0 > >----- > > > > [ > https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/8607/8TBDhj.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1 > ] > > > > By Jason Farago for the New York Times - Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022 > > > > [ > https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/4337/LD2iuR.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1 > ] > > > > Ronald Lauder's personal collection of memorabilia from "Casablanca" > fills a room of the Neue Galerie, on the Upper East Side. > > > > > > Round up the unusual suspects. "Casablanca" has turned 80, and the most > esteemed of all Hollywood classics enters its octogenarian years with a new > ultra-high-definition DVD release. > > > > There's also, right now in New York, an engaging new display of > "Casablanca" artifacts, though you won't find it at MoMA or the Museum of > the Moving Image. Of all the joints in all the towns in all the world, the > relics of this paragon of the Hollywood studio system have ended up in … a > museum of German and Austrian modern art. > > > > That would be the Neue Galerie, conceived by the cosmetics baron Ronald > S. Lauder and the art dealer Serge Sabarsky (1912-1996), which opened in > 2001 in a former Vanderbilt mansion on a prime corner of Fifth Avenue. > > > > It's celebrating its first 20 years with a showcase of its surviving > founder's own collection: not only jewels of modern Mitteleuropa, but > ancient sculpture, medieval broadswords and reliquaries, and gleaming > oddities from Renaissance cabinets of curiosities. > > Least expected are more than five dozen posters, lobby cards, props and > press materials from the collector's favorite movie, which he reports > seeing "at least 25 to 30 times" — and whose memorabilia he has been buying > up with foxhound-grade avidity. > > > > "The Ronald S. Lauder Collection" had its grand opening on the evening > of November's midterm elections — whose result, by the way, Lauder may have > decisively influenced, having spent millions on lawsuits and campaign > advertising for Republicans in New York, where the G.O.P. flipped four > congressional seats. (Among his animating causes are crime, taxes, and a > proposed wind farm off the Hamptons shoreline.) > > > > "I'm no ogre," Lauder assured The Times this month in an interview at > Café Sabarsky, the charmingly ersatz Viennese cafe on the Neue Galerie's > ground floor, and, certainly, the 500-odd objects here do not have an > outward suggestion of barbarism. If anything, its rooms of princely baubles > are rather oversaturated, as if Lauder didn't know where to stop; drawings > by Egon Schiele are hung sky-high, essentially invisible, and stuffed > vitrines induced in me the novel feeling of ivory fatigue. > > > > The unexpected highlight is the "Casablanca" gallery, the show's > smallest and densest, which in its way fits right into an institution > devoted to Central European genius and American inheritances. > > > > Its walls are covered with soft-focus images of Humphrey Bogart and > Ingrid Bergman, and posters both printed and painted. ("They Have a Date > With Fate in … CASABLANCA," reads one hand-lettered display from 1942, the > title sparkling gold.) > > > > Lobby cards — those black-and-white stills you'd once see by the popcorn > stand — take us back to the louche purgatory of Rick's Café Américain, > where the dashing Resistance hero Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) is gathering > intelligence, and the charmingly corrupt Captain Renault (Claude Rains) is > sizing up the loveliest exiles. > > > > > > [ > https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/6817/byLD6X.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1 > ] > > > > Posters and lobby cards cover the walls with images of the film's stars, > Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. > > > > [ > https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9023/F6A2Mi.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1 > ] > > > > < > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimagizer.imageshack.com%2Fimg922%2F7039%2FFfMpw7.jpg&data=05%7C01%7C%7C397e8f8c298643702bc608dad4e26515%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638056366076954345%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0MgfeQh%2F%2FzEdEYk1MiM5NS5FJIl4K5fY2XaSL9qarfU%3D&reserved=0 > > > > Detail of a brass lamp, fringed with imitation jewels, used in the movie. > > > > [ > https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/7039/FfMpw7.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1 > ] > > > > A hand-lettered display from 1942 announces the film's title in > sparkling gold. > > > > > > You'll also find memorabilia from the film's postwar releases in France, > Italy, Czechoslovakia and, by 1952, Germany. > > > > Bergman appears in solo splendor on the German poster, beaming above a > set piece of fez-topped musicians. There's a brass lamp from Rick's, > fringed with imitation gemstones, and two rattan chairs where Europe's > desperate and displaced drank their cognacs and plotted their escapes. > > > > Looping in the background is "As Time Goes By," performed by Dooley > Wilson, a veteran of the Negro Theater Unit of the Federal Theater Project, > in the role of the nightclub crooner Sam. > > > > Lauder apparently also owns the 1940 Buick Phaeton in which Rains drives > our heroes to the Casablanca airport in the film's final act. Lauder wanted > to station the car outside the Neue Galerie for the run of the show, but no > dice. Even with a net worth of $4.5 billion, nobody beats alternate-side > parking regulations. > > > > "Casablanca" premiered in New York on Nov. 26, 1942; Warner Bros. pushed > up its release date to capitalize on the excitement around that month's > Allied invasion of North Africa. It opened nationally in January 1943, and > its tale of refugees and people smugglers was not only topical; it was > nearly autofiction. > > > > A stunning number of its performers were Jewish refugees or anti-Nazi > exiles — among them Conrad Veidt, previously a star of the Berlin studio > system, who played Major Strasser; S.Z. Sakall, a Hungarian Jewish actor, > as the club's affable headwaiter; and Peter Lorre in the small but crucial > role of Ugarte, who sells exit visas to the rich and desperate. > > > > The French actress Madeleine Lebeau, in the small role of Rick's jilted > mistress, cries real tears during the film's stirring performance of "La > Marseillaise"; she too was a refugee, fleeing via Lisbon to Mexico, and > then to Hollywood. She escaped with her husband, Marcel Dalio (born Israel > Mosche Blauschild), who plays the croupier at Rick's, and who left France > after antisemitic critics denounced his appearance in "The Rules of the > Game." > > > > [ > https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/5116/mhV5W9.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1 > ] > > > > The production's transit papers for Victor Laszlo, "signed" by Charles > de Gaulle, which Rick finally hands over in "Casablanca." > > > > > > When it plays in the revival houses on Valentine's Day, when it surfaces > as the late movie after "Nightline," "Casablanca" still endures as a > wartime love affair, with Bogie and Bergman letting each other go in the > airport fog. > > > > But for me "Casablanca" has always been a movie of visas and exit > stamps, embassies and expediters, bribed officials and underground > operators. It paints the modern world as the province of emigrants and > evacuees, and subordinates the most enthralling of all Hollywood romances > to the welfare of the persecuted. > > Which is why I was so astonished to discover, in Lauder's collection, an > extraordinary relic: the original (prop) letter of transit that sets the > plot in motion, made out to Victor Laszlo and "signed" by General de > Gaulle. The prop passports are here too, with Bergman's and Henreid's > photographs stamped with the seal of the Casablanca colonial administration. > > > > I couldn't believe I was seeing them, and seeing them here, in a museum > of German and Austrian art. It was as if these fictional travel documents > concentrated all the exiles and displacements that built midcentury > American culture, of Mies van der Rohe and Marlene Dietrich, of "Doctor > Faustus" and "Broadway Boogie-Woogie." > > > > They burn, especially, with the shame of knowing that a contemporary > "Casablanca" cast member could probably not procure one. Even before the > Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has forced an estimated five million to > flee, the world has been shaken by the largest refugee crisis since > everybody came to Rick's. The United Nations now puts the number of > displaced at 100 million — one in every 78 people on Earth — from > Afghanistan and Venezuela, from Central America and Myanmar, and above all > from Syria, whose civil war will soon enter its 12th year. > > > > [ > https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/3595/XLgBgp.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1 > ] > > > > The prop passport for Ilsa Lund, Ingrid Bergman's character. > > > > > > Nevertheless, under President Donald J. Trump, the United States cut its > quotas for refugee admissions to the lowest level ever. The numbers have > barely budged under his successor. Though President Biden increased the cap > of the refugee admissions program, his government has come nowhere close to > fulfilling it; just 25,400 refugees were admitted in the last fiscal year, > leaving 80 percent of the places unfilled. > > > > The fundamental things apply. In "Casablanca" the Hollywood system > reached the acme of its artistic and civic potential, and on that > Orientalist soundstage, as the displaced of Europe oscillated in and out of > character, these foreigners offered America a new self-portrait. It taught > us that love and displacement went hand in hand, that ideals were thicker > than blood. > > > > "I bet they're asleep in New York," Bogie mopes into his tumbler of > whisky at the end of the first reel. "I bet they're asleep all over > America." But the passionate clarity of "Casablanca" was not something we > only dreamed. > > > > The Ronald S. Lauder Collection - Through Feb. 13, Neue Galerie New > York, 1048 Fifth Avenue, 212-628-6200; neuegalerie.org< > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneuegalerie.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C397e8f8c298643702bc608dad4e26515%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638056366076954345%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kERIzZ2s8KjjZ7WM06L0Y%2Fcf4e7rDrZ74PrVOn461pc%3D&reserved=0 > >. > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> on behalf of Tom Martin < > dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com> > > Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 5:07 PM > > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > > Subject: Re: [MOPO] Casablanca collection on display in NYC > > > > could not see the article unless i subscribed ,,,,,oh well > > Iam not wanting more mail soguess i dont get to see\ > > > > Thanks Charles for the Kindness > > Tom > > Hollywood dream factory® > > since 1977 > > > > > > On 2022-12-02 15:53, Christopher Quarles wrote: > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/arts/design/casablanca-neue-galerie-lauder.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare > < > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F12%2F01%2Farts%2Fdesign%2Fcasablanca-neue-galerie-lauder.html%3Fsmid%3Dnytcore-ios-share%26referringSource%3DarticleShare&data=05%7C01%7C%7C397e8f8c298643702bc608dad4e26515%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638056366076954345%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QzvmXVk87WMP92sq6ppeAJvES0fGp2HSLfKu9j05Wsw%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > > > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
