Fantastic assortment of four vintage photo albums containing hundreds of photographs and images from early Western films, including original stills, promo cards, and second-generation prints, as well as sundry images clipped from genre books, magazines, newspapers, and programs. The largest of the albums, 12″ x 14.5″ x 2.75″, celebrates entirely the incredible film career of John Wayne, with images portraying the ‘Duke’ as a handsome young actor in his earliest starring roles and then as the larger-than-life grizzled veteran from classic films like The Searchers and True Grit. The smallest of the albums, 10″ x 12″ x .75″, focuses exclusively on the career of dashing early Western star Buck Jones, which details his career through numerous clipped program and newspaper photos.
The remaining two albums include a great variety of wonderful early images of many famous Western movie stars, including: John Wayne, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Peter Fonda, Audie Murphy, James Garner, Gary Cooper, Clayton Moore, Lon Chaney, Jr., Randolph Scott, Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, Buster Crabbe, Tom Mix, Gabby Hayes, Ben Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Jock Mahoney, Omar Sharif, Yul Brynner, Alan Ladd, Burt Lancaster, Billy Anderson, William Boyd, Tim Holt, Johnny Mack Brown, Sunset Carson, William Elliott, George O’Brien, Buddy Roosevelt, Rex Bell, Bob Allen, Tom Keene, Tom Tyler, Russell Hayden, Hopalong Cassidy, Sunset Carson, Jack Hoxie, Art Acord, Buzz Barton, Ted Wells, Jack Holt, Richard Arlen, Ben Corbett, Jack Perrin, Wally Wales, Bob Custer, Buddy Roosevelt, Yakima Canutt, Tom Santschi, Cullen Landis, Bill Cody, Bob Reeves, Wally West, Neal Hart, Harry Carey, William Desmond, Franklyn Farnum, Pete Morrison, William Fairbanks, Leo Maloney, Don Coleman, Ruth Mix, Fred Humes, Edmund Cobb, Lane Chandler, Al Hoxie, Art Mix, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Kermit Maynard, William Russell, J. Warren Kerrigan, Reb Russell, Jack Luden, William Duncan, Wallace McDonald, George Houston, Tex Harding, Jim Bannon, David Sharpe, Kirby Grant, Lee Powell, Wallace MacDonald, Bob Steele, and others. In overall very good to fine condition. Devotedly and painstakingly assembled, these four albums represent a simply outstanding visual history on the Old West heroes and heroines that dominated movie theater marquees for decades.
