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“LOST ANGEL”  1943. Good star vehicle for Margaret O'Brien playing an orphan
        child who was given over to an institution to be raised without family. Solid production
        and casting backup from M.G.M.   Brilliant performance!  $50.00.
        “THE  GAY  INTRUDERS”  1948    -  a  comedy  with  the  leads  playing  flamboyant
        theatrical people,  their latest play closes after two years, as soon as the door on their
        dressing room closes, the bric-a-brac starts flying. They each think the other is nuts, so
        they  skitch  psychiatrists  to  analyse  the  other.  N.B.  allegedly  based  on  Tallulah
        Bankhead the actress.  Leif Erickson and Virginia Gregg. $40.00.

        “CHAMPAGNE  FOR  CAESAR”  1950  comedy.    Showcases  the  comic  talent  of
        Vincent Price and Ronald Colman in one of the best screwball comedies to come from
        the tail end of Hollywood's golden age. These are not two names commonly associated
        with comedy but as this movie shows they should have been.  $50.00

        “THE ADVENTURES OF DON COYOTE”  1947. Western. The character  Chito
        Gonzalez  Bustamonte  Rafferty  ("The  Irish  in  me  is  for  fight;  the  Mexican  for
        love!")was  Richard  Martin's  bread  and  butter  role  in  a  large  number  of  "B"  films.
        $20.00

        “RICOCHET ROMANCE”  1954, comedy.  Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Irene Ryan,
        Rudy Vallee.   A new cook transforms a dude ranch into something not much better.
        IMDB: 3.1/2  of 5 stars.     $40.00
        "THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD" 1935. How on earth did this get through the
        censors of 1935?  An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a young
        beautiful  girl  and  will  not  stop  at  murder  to  have  her.  From  Charles  Dickens  last
        unfinished book. $60.00

        "GIRLS ON PROBATION" 1938 drama. Despite the title
        "Girls"-  is  quite  good.      Being  from  Warner  Brothers,
        naturally the cast is first rate.  Jane Bryan, as Connie is the
        star  in  strife  and  backed  up  with  a  sterling  cast  of  Sig
        Ruman as a tyrannical parent, and with Ronald Reagan
        and Susan Hayward in an early role.  $50.00
        "GIRLS DORMITORY" 1936  romantic drama.  Herbert
        Marshall and Ruth Chatterton star in this film, & is the
        early  part  of  Tyrone  Power's  career.  But  it's  Simone
        Simon's  movie.    In  her  first  film  role,  she  has  that
        mystique  of  Garbo  with  the  allure  of  Dietrich.
        Her  innocence  is  not  overdone  and  she  gives  a  very
        effective  and  sincere  performance  as  a  dreamer  in  love
        with the schoolmaster, Herbert.  $40.00.
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