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a lot of 18 8x10 stills of Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea is an actor well remembered as a durable leading man of the late 1930s and early 1940s, but he was far from an overnight success; he made his first movie in 1927, but it took five years and 20 movies until he became a leading man, and even then, he tended to play the male lead to a stronger female actress; unfortunately, he lost many great parts to Gary Cooper, and played a lot of parts that Cooper turned down; but he had many very memorable performances, and continued acting all the way to 1976, with a very memorable performance as an aging cowboy in 1962's "Ride the High Country". Some of his movies include: Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and Foreign Correspondent. Note that he met actress Frances Dee while they were making a movie together in 1933, and they married that same year, and after that their marriage and their three sons took center stage in her life, so she only made sporadic movie and TV appearances in the 1940s and early 1950s (most notably in I Walked With a Zombie!), and then she completely retired in 1954, and McCrea basically retired in 1962, and the two lived together at their 300 acre ranch in Thousand Oaks, California (they were quite wealthy). They remained married until his passing in 1990, and she passed away in 2004. Note that the items in this lot are from the 1930s to the 1950s. Note that there is a date stamp on the back of some of the stills. That is the date that our consignor PURCHASED the still (he was active in the 1970s and 1980s), and it in no way relates to when the still is from (it is a vintage still from the date we say it is from in the auction title). We have seen several collectors over the years who like to do this with their collection, so that they could keep track of when they purchased items.

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