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CINEMA-THE AUCTION:
The Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema Part VI JUNE 26th @ 2PM (EST) Exhibition
Day of the Sale: 11AM till Sale Time
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TEMPLE HILL ROAD (Rt 300)
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 914-882-7356
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Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema
Part VI
Auction Catalog  Joanne Grant, principal auctioneer at Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries announces the acquisition of THE
GENE ANDREWSKI COLLECTION OF CINEMA for several auctions. The sixth in this series of auctions will take
place on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 2PM. The entire collection will be sold without reserve or minimum bids making
this series of sales almost unprecedented in the industry.
The auction
of The Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema Part VI includes what has become the ongoing mix of movie posters, inserts, lobby
cards, press books, exhibitors campaign books, photographs by the Hollywood celebrity photographers, ISP's and autographs.
This auction begins to introduce original scripts for Hollywood and TV. To begin a preview of what will come in the Fall we
are now introducing in this auction some lots from The Andrewski Library of rare first editions which were only made known
to us recently. Although we had been given a first edition of Gone With the Wind and Hilton's Lost Horizon which were sold
in a recent auction, we were unaware that an entire library of rarities existed. We will offer this library on September 25th
in addition to Part VII of the cinema auctions. There are thousands of items included in the approx. 350 lots of this auction.
Included are some items from the Buddy McDaniel collection of cinema. As has become our tradition, following the conclusion
of the internet auction we will offer about 100 lots to those gathered in the room as a thank you to those who come to the
auction and participate live. In the past, this has been fun and the buying is great. THE GENE ANDREWSKI COLLECTION OF CINEMA
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 rare and early Bela Lugosi ones from Murders in the Rue Morgue and Margaret
Hamilton as the witch in The Wizard of Oz. 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 although there is considerable material of the 50’s and 60’s.
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.
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.
HOW
TO PARTICIPATE
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. Registration
must be completed prior to 2 hrs. before sale time. Bidders may also bid by telephone or by absentee bidding. There
will be a 20% buyer’s premium. Inquiries may be directed to Joanne
Grant, principal auctioneer at mag2715jag@aol.com or by phone 914-882-7356.
Terms
of the Sale: Cash, traveler’s
checques, Visa, M/C, Paypal, Checks, if known to us, with the under-standing that merchandise may be held until check clears.
We charge a 20% buyer’s premium to auction attendees, absentee and phone bidders as well as a 20% buyer’s
premium to bidders online. Complimentary food. Comfortable heated facility with plenty of very convenient parking. Auctioneer:
Joanne C. Grant and John W. Paul. Absentee and phone bids accepted.
Directions: FROM
NYC: Take N.Y.S. Thruway North to Exit 16. Go north on Rt. 32 to Vail’s Gate Intersection. Continue on Rt. 300
(Temple Hill Rd) about ¼ mile on left. FROM EASTERN NY and CT: RT 84 West to NEWBURGH/RT 300 North/South exit.
Proceed South on Rt. 300. Continue on Rt. 300 south to light at end and go left onto Rt. 207/300 S. Continue on Rt. 300 (Temple
Hill Rd) (approx 2.4 miles) to 179 Temple Hill Road (just after RR Tracks) on right. FROM WESTERN NY and PA: RT 84
East to NEWBURGH/RT 9W SOUTH exit. Proceed South on 9W. Through Newburgh to Rt. 94 – west on Rt. 94 – four (4)
miles to Vail’s Gate intersection. Turn right onto Rt. 300 (Temple Hill Rd) about ¼ mile on left. FROM ALBANY
AND NORTHERN NY STATE: Take N.Y.S. Thruway South to Exit 17. At end of ramp make right onto 17-K. Go to first Light make
left onto Rt. 300 (Union Ave.) Take Rt. 300 south to light at end and go left onto Rt. 207/300 S. Continue on Rt. 300 (Temple
Hill Rd) (approx 2.4 miles) to 179 Temple Hill Road (just after RR Tracks) on right. FROM MIDDLETOWN: Go east on
Rt. 84 to Exit 7S and Rt. 300. Take Rt. 300 south to light at end and go left onto Rt. 207/300 S. Continue on Rt. 300 (Temple
Hill Rd) (approx 2.4 miles) to 179 Temple Hill Road (just after RR Tracks) on right.
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