Film Memorabilia Wing

Richard Arlen — Autograph Associated with The Lady and the Monster

Autograph with associated period film material

Curator confirms the Richard Arlen autograph was associated with The Lady and the Monster documentation at the time of cataloging.

Curator-associated; authentication not independently certified

Ursula Andress — What's New Pussycat? Autograph

Autograph on verso of period lobby card

Signature is visually consistent with documented Ursula Andress exemplars. BlazerQuest comparative assessment from photographic evidence: 85–92% probability of authenticity.

Probable authentic signature; not independently authenticated by PSA/DNA, JSA or Beckett

Gary Cooper — The Real Glory Autograph

Autograph associated with period film lobby card

Signature photographed separately and retained with The Real Glory film material. Comparative authentication remains pending.

Attributed; probability not yet assigned

Richard Attenborough — Autograph and Guns at Batasi

Autograph with associated film lobby card

Autograph retained with the filmography collection; Guns at Batasi board/lobby material provides the associated film context.

Attributed; comparative authentication pending

Binnie Barnes — The Hour Before the Dawn

Autograph with period Paramount lobby card

Autograph and lobby card are retained together as a filmography pair.

Attributed; comparative authentication pending

Lynn Bari — Mr. Moto's Gamble / Shock

Autograph and period lobby-card group

Lynn Bari autograph is retained with multiple film-related pieces, including Mr. Moto's Gamble and Shock.

Attributed; comparative authentication pending

Blaine Gibson — Mickey Mouse Drawing and Inscription

Original character drawing with inscription and signature

Mickey Mouse drawing inscribed to Tom and signed Blaine Gibson, dated 10-23-2000.

Signed original drawing; authentication review pending

The Rawhide Years — Lobby Card Set

1955 Universal-International Technicolor lobby-card group

Multi-card set featuring Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller and Arthur Kennedy. The group is cataloged as a set rather than as isolated cards.

Period theatrical advertising; set retained together

The Spirit of St. Louis — Lobby Card Pair

1957 Warner Bros. lobby cards

Pair featuring James Stewart as Charles A. Lindbergh.

Period theatrical advertising

Wide World: In Concert — ABC Press Photograph

ABC Photo Release / press photograph

Four-up image identifies Chuck Berry, Jim Croce, Edgar Winter and James Brown; press release dated 10/15/74 for the program's second-anniversary broadcast.

Network-issued press material

Billy Jack — NBC Press Photograph

NBC press photograph

NBC Photo caption identifies Tom Laughlin and Clark Howat and announces a November 20 television broadcast; caption dated 10/22/76.

Network-issued press material

Clark Gable — Autograph with Doris Day Photograph

Attributed Clark Gable autograph with associated celebrity photograph/documentation

The collection includes the photographed autograph together with a Clark Gable/Doris Day image and identifying information. The signature is cataloged as attributed pending independent third-party authentication.

BQ working appraisal for catalog/testing; not a formal USPAP appraisal.

The New Dick Van Dyke Show — Script Collection

Hope Lange and Saul Turteltaub production-used script material

Collection records include Hope Lange's copy of “Linda, Linda, Linda” and Saul Turteltaub's Final Draft of “A Room with a Room,” dated December 21, 1970. The scripts can be attributed as used by Lange and Turteltaub; handwritten annotations are not conclusively attributed to either individual.

Reference image is a 1973 CBS publicity photograph of Dick Van Dyke and Dick Van Patten, not an owned museum artifact. Wikimedia Commons identifies it as U.S. public domain (PD-PRE1978 / published without copyright notice). Credit/source retained in the IP notes.

Film & Celebrity Postcard / Souvenir Group

Curated as a supporting group rather than individual headline accessions

The postcards are presented as a compact supporting collection: film/performer imagery first, followed by entertainment and novelty/souvenir material. Front-and-back documentation is retained for provenance, publisher and date clues.

John Philip Sousa — The Stars and Stripes Forever! Sheet Music

Vintage John Church Company sheet music

Retained as entertainment-history ephemera adjacent to the FILM collection. The reverse advertises “Famous Marches by John Philip Sousa.”

Supporting cultural artifact; condition visibly used with edge/corner wear.

Sophia Loren — Period Press Photograph

Vintage black-and-white celebrity/film publicity photograph

The reverse bears a received-date marking reading “REC'D JAN 1969.” BlazerQuest records this as the photograph's documented receipt marking, not necessarily the date the image was photographed.

Period photographic ephemera; January 1969 received-date documentation preserved.

John Byner — Signed Photograph with Letter of Authenticity

Signed performance photograph with accompanying authentication document

The signed photograph and its accompanying Letter of Authenticity are cataloged together as one documented autograph artifact.

Autograph accompanied by third-party authentication documentation; certificate retained as supporting evidence.

Additional Lobby Card Collection — Reconciled Set

Previously supplied and newly reconciled lobby-card material

This group restores lobby cards omitted from the prior consolidation. It includes material for Days of Thrills and Laughter, Adventures of a Young Man, Divine, White Bravo, Kazan / Jaws of Justice, Caribbean Mystery, Whiff of Scandal, Mr. Scoutmaster, The Best of Everything, Behind Prison Walls, The Teahouse of the August Moon, Francis, Shock, Rocky, The Hour Before the Dawn, Barbed Wire, Guns at Batasi, Peggy, and Wide Open Faces. Duplicate/supporting imagery is retained in the asset set rather than promoted to duplicate catalog records.

Reconciliation record for Curator Acceptance Testing; individual cards may be promoted or regrouped after visual review.