Lot of 4, THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940) stills Cedric Hardwicke Vincent Price

Description: (They ALL look MUCH better than these pictures above.) Lot of 5, THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (1940) stills Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Forrester Harvey, Harry Stubbs 8x10 vintage originals issued by the studio when the film was released and meant for promotional distribution. Guaranteed authentic. Vintage gelatin silver, glossy photos. This lot of approximately 8” x 10” photos will sell as a group. The first picture is just one of the group, please open and look at each still in this lot to measure the high value of all of them together. They would look great framed on display in your home theater or to add to your portfolio or scrapbook! Some dealers buy my lots to break up and sell separately at classic film conventions at much higher prices than my low minimum. A worthy investment for gift giving too! PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILE ALL PICTURES LOAD After checking out this item please look at my other unique silent motion picture memorabilia and Hollywood film collectibles! WIN MORE THAN ONE OF MY AUCTIONS AND HAVE THEM SHIPPED TOGETHER TO SAVE $ See a gallery of pictures of my other auctions HERE! These ORIGINAL photographs are NOT copies or reproductions!!! DESCRIPTION: The Invisible Woman, the 1940 A. Edward Sutherland Universal science fiction (sci-fi) fantasy screwball comedy ("Original Story by Kurt [Curt] Siodmak and Joe May"; Siodmak had written "The Invisible Man Returns" shortly before this, and he wrote most of the Universal horror movies of this period, and the following year, he wrote "The Wolf Man"; this sequel of sorts is played for laughs; Barrymore is a somewhat mad scientist who invents an invisibility potion, and he finds a beautiful model who volunteers as a guinea pig, because she needs to get even with her mean boss, and Oscar Homolka also volunteers, because he wants to steal the secret and make a fortune) starring Virginia Bruce (in the title role as Kitty Carroll/The Invisible Woman), John Barrymore, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles, Oscar Homolka, Maria Montez, Margaret Hamilton, and Shemp Howard. CONDITION: These quality vintage, original 8” by 10” inch, still photographs are in VERY GOOD to MINT condition, all with a slight sepia toned tint: Still #1) is near mint. #2) has numerous creases and tears at the edges and a corner tip is torn off. #3) is similar to number two but is better. #4) is almost mint with very minor wear marks. #4) Has creases, edge bumps edge tears including one 1” long. SEE PHOTOS. The image area contains stunning sharp detail images that true vintage originals give you! (SEE PIX!) Issued by the studio when the film was released and meant for promotional distribution. Guaranteed authentic. Vintage gelatin silver, single weight, glossy photo. I have recently acquired two huge collections from lifelong movie buffs who collected for decades… I need to offer these choice items for sale on a first come, first service basis to the highest bidder. SHIPPING: Domestic shipping would be USPS Ground Advantage (includes $100 insurance) and well packed in plastic, with several layers of cardboard support/protection and delivery tracking. The USPS has removed FIRST CLASS from eBay’s postage label system. (Darn it!) International shipping depends on the location, and the package would weigh close to a half a pound with even more extra ridge packing. PAYMENTS: Please pay PayPal! All of my items are unconditionally guaranteed. E-mail me with any questions you may have. This is Larry41, wishing you great movie memories and good luck… BACKGROUND: “Watching this film, the minute I saw the opening credits and saw who was in the cast, I knew I would enjoy this, and I was not disappointed. Bela Lugosi was quoted as saying that when Abbott & Costello met Frankenstein some years later, it killed the classic horror genre that Universal was known for. If that was the case, I'm not sure how the genre escaped the executioner here. The original film of The Invisible Man saw Claude Rains give one of his great performances as the scientist who becomes invisible, but with the terrible side effect of losing his mind. It's classic acting at its best. In The Invisible Woman John Barrymore is the scientist who plays it like a cross between his own Oscar Jaffe in Twentieth Century and Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. Barrymore really looks like he's having all kinds of fun with the part. But he's smart enough not to experiment on himself. Barrymore is a pet project of playboy John Howard who spends as much money on him as he does settle with women with whom he's had various amours, much to the distraction of Thurston Hall his family attorney. Hall breaks the news to Howard just as Barrymore seems on the verge of a breakthrough. All this is making butler Charlie Ruggles start looking for other employment. That and what follows. So much so he's advertised for a human subject in an oblique newspaper ad. Two parties respond to the ad, the first is Virginia Bruce who likes the idea of invisibility. She wants to use it to even some accounts with her boss Charles Lane. Lane runs a department store, and Bruce is one of several models he abuses with petty tyranny. Her scenes where she does even accounts are some of the funniest. But a second party is also interested, but he doesn't just want to become invisible. Oscar Homolka wants to steal the secret and return to this country from Mexico where he's been living as a fugitive. So, he sends henchmen, Edward Brophy, Donald MacBride, and Shemp Howard to steal Barrymore's machine. I should point out that unlike Rains' film and other invisible man pictures, Barrymore invents some Young Frankenstein like contraption which you go into and are bombarded with rays to become invisible. In the hands of amateurs, the machine does have some interesting side effects and not the ones Claude Rains suffered. The Invisible Woman is used as an example of how low Barrymore's career had sunk. Yet even when Barrymore is slowly destroying himself with substance abuse in real life, the man's comic genius is apparent even in a film like this. In fact he led the entire cast in one big orgy of overacting where all these colorful people try to top themselves in scenery chewing. The Invisible Woman did get an Academy Award nomination for Special Effects, but lost to Paramount's I Wanted Wings. Note in the cast Maria Montez as one of Virginia Bruce's fellow models who shortly would be obtaining short lived stardom in her own genre for Universal Pictures. The Invisible Woman is a very funny picture, a really good satire on the horror film genre. Made on a dime so to speak, don't miss it if it's ever broadcast.”

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