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Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition comic books 1938-1955

  • 1938
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1938

    Picture Show Annual for 1938. Cover of Greta Garbo. Articles include "New Versions of Old Favorites," "They've Been a Long Time Married," "Famous Detectives of Fiction," "Color on the Screen," "Art and Artists in British Studios," "These Names Mean Mirth," "The Throne of England," "Film finds of the Year," "Westerns Old and New," "Fair Heroines and Dark Heroes" and much more. Movie portraits include Myrna Loy, Randolph Scott, Robert Taylor, Olivia De Havilland, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Ida Lupino, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, and many more. Also includes one-page movie promos and short movie star features, including Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Barbara Stanwyck. Profusely illustrated with photographs with excellent layout and design. Weighs over two pounds. No dustjacket as issued but includes the glassine wrapper with the cover price of six shillings. Hardcover, 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • Picture Show Annual for 1939. Cover of Gary Cooper and Sigrid Garie in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Articles include "Ten Years of Talkies," "Close Ups and Long Shots," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Children of the Screen," "Exceptions that Prove the Rule," "Stars of all Nations," "Stars of the Future," "Screenland Romances," "Say It With Song," "Sisters on the Screen," "Old Friends," "From Slapstick to Subtlety," "Men Behind the Makeup," "Days of Leisure" and much more. Movie portraits include Carole Lombard, William Powell, Deanna Durbin, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, Ginger Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Spencer Tracy, Greta Garbo, Bette Davis and many more. Also includes one-page movie promos and short movie star features, including Clark Gable. Profusely illustrated with photographs with excellent layout and design. Weighs over two pounds. No dustjacket as issued but includes the glassine wrapper with the cover price of six shillings. Hardcover, 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • 1940
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1940

    Picture Show Annual for 1940. Cover of Madeline Carroll and Fred MacMurray. Articles include "Favourite Stars of Yesterday and Today" covering the silent era to 1939, "Characters You Can't Forget," "Favourite Films Screen Again" delving into remakes of earlier classics, "You Always Found 'Em Fighting" about James Cagney, John Wayne, Buster Crabbe and many more, "Series and Sequels," "Personalities in British Pictures," "Is There an Awkward Age," "They Sang Their Way to Fame" and much more. Full-page movie star portraits include Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Charles Boyer, Laurence Olivier, Rosalind Russell, William Boyd, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Alice Faye, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Errol Flynn, Vivian Leigh and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • 1941
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1941

    Picture Show Annual for 1941. Cover of Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. Articles include "Popular Pictures Filmed Again," "The Class Screened" is about filming classic books, "The New Westerns," "The March of Walt Disney's Pen-Puppets" with stills from Pinocchio, "British Comedy Teams," "Newcomers of Note," "Edward G. Robinson - Art Connoisseur," "Dreams, Romances and Realities Collected in British Studios," "Are They Better When They're Bad," "The Grimmer Side of Life," "Gone with the Wind," "Men Who Have Made History" profiles historical movies, "It Runs in the Family," "The First Six Months" about films related to World War II, "Comic Strip Characters" on screen and much more. Full-page movie star portraits include Rex Harrison, Paulette Goddard, Tyrone Power, Greta Garbo, Ray Milland, Ann Sothern, Melvyn Douglas, David Niven, Lana Turner, Robert Preston, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • 1942
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1942

    Picture Show Annual for 1942. Articles include "The Film Plays Its Part," "The Romance of the Pioneers," "There'll Always be a Western," "Stars in Exile," "This Amazing Century," "There's Magic in Music" about Fantasia and other musicals, "Young Players of Promise," survey of movies from different parts of the British Empire like Australia, South Africa, India, "Men With Wings" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Bette Davis, Conrad Veidt, Merle Oberon, Robert Taylor, Douglas Fairbanks, Carole Lombard, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, William Powell, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Dorothy Lamour, Cary Grant, Margaret Sullavan, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, John Wayne and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • 1947
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1947

    Picture Show Annual for 1947. Cover of Stewart Granger and Jean Kent. Articles include "Flashbacks," "The Little More" is a survey of actors, "New Trails on the Old Wild West," "The Charm of Youth," "Family Fame," "It's No Help, It's a Handicap," "Dancing Time," "Glamour Girls Make Lovely Mothers," "Notable Newcomers" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Lana Turner, John Mills, Ingrid Bergman, Ida Lupino, Susan Hayward, Fred MacMurray, Errol Flynn, Veronica Lake, James Mason, Alan Ladd, Frank Sinatra, Hedy Lamarr, Paulette Goddard and many more. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • 1948
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1948

    Picture Show Annual for 1948. Cover of Linda Darnell. Articles include "21 Years of Talkies," "Stories That Never Die," "Walt Disney Still Experiments," survey of the Academy Awards from 1928 to 1946, "They Grow Lovelier," "Still Going Strong," "The Spirit of Dickens on the Screen," "With Songs in Their Hearts," "Little People With Great Gifts," "Inside British Studios" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Ingrid Bergman, David Niven, Maureen O'Hara, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, June Allyson, Gene Kelly, George Sanders, Roy Rogers, James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Rita Hayworth and many more. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • 1951
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1951

    Picture Show Annual for 1951. Cover of Dennis Price and Patricia Dainton. Articles include "Fame," "At Home," "Six Dancing Feet," "Together Again," "Star Selection," "Yo Ho Yo Ho," "Not So Dumb" about animals in the movies, "Comic Strips," "Right Stars in the Western Sky," "Welcome Back," "Romance and Realism," "Bible Stories on the Screen" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include William Holden, Richard Attenborough, Montgomery Clift, Lauren Bacall, Ricardo Montalban, Alec Guinness, June Allyson, Errol Flynn, Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward, John Wayne, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Russell and many more. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, B&W.

  • 1953
    Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition 1953

    Picture Show Annual for 1953. Cover of Michael Wilding and Anna Neagle. Articles include "Premieres," "Welcome Return," "Home is Where the Heart Is," "Dual Roles," "Model Young Ladies," "Sharing Star Popularity," "Impersonation," "Box Office Winners," "Leisure Hours," "Cosmopolitan Callers," "World-Wide Interest," "The Charm of a Child," "Odd Moments In and Out of British Studios," "Better Than Ever," "Other Talents" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Yvonne De Carla, Forrest Tucker, Esther Williams, Susan Hayward, Richard Basehart, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Russell, Shelley Winters, Doris Day, Burt Lancaster, Patricia Neal, Janet Leigh, Lizabeth Scott, and many more. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, B&W.