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Edward Orton, Ealing Studios and others
Eight black and white portrait photographs of Ed Orton as stills photographer at Ealing Studios, each showing the photographer with various cameras, one inscribed on the reverse ..Myself with a 10"x8" stand camera in Ealing Studios' stills dept. about 1935, three depicting Orton on Ealing Studios roof holding his 5x4in. Speed Graphic Camera, each a different size, largest -- 17x13¼in. (43.2x33.6cm.); five head and shoulder or half-length portrait photographs of Orton, two showing him looking at a model of the Ealing Studios Nicholas Nickleby set, 1947 -- 9½x7½in. (24.1x19cm.); thirty-nine stills of various camera units in action and group shots of production staff, majority circa 1930s-1960, various productions include: Wild Boy, 1932, Time Without Pity, 1957 and The Criminal, 1960; sixty-five action stills and one hundred and fourteen portrait stills of various artists and films including: Moby Dick, 1956, Red Skelton in Let Sleeping Heroes Die, Harry Fowler in Hue & Cry, 1946, Brian Rix in The Night We Dropped A Clanger, 1959, Gracie Fields in Queen of Hearts, 1939, Stewart Granger in Saraband for Dead Lovers, 1948, Alastair Sim in The Anatomist, 1961, Patrick Macnee in The Avengers, circa 1965 and Richard Attenborough in Brothers-in-Law, 1957; twelve sheets of contact prints including four for Dianna Rigg; a quantity of location stills; a montage of twenty-five black and white snap-shots taken by Orton in California entitled Hollywood Snaps 1948-1950, subjects include: Jane Russell, Gregory Peck, Ronald Coleman, Betty Grable, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, Maureen O'Sullivan, Rosalind Russell, Roy Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, overall measurements -- 16x20in. (40.7x50.8cm.); three albums of black and white snap-shots taken by Orton circa 1947- 1948, two devoted to two of Orton's trips to Hollywood showing views, film studios such as Paramount, famous theatres including Grauman's, various stars participating in the Hollywood Parade, Christmas, 1947 and forty-four snap-shots of various stars including Groucho Marx, Loretta Young, Alice Faye, Danny Kaye, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Marlene Dietrich, Al Jolson, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Roy Rogers and Bob Hope; and an album of press cuttings referring to Ed Orton's career (a lot)
