The Lady from Shanghai

by Orson Welles, Sherwood King, Everette Sloane Rita Hayworth

$55,000 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1948. Vintage reference photograph from the 1948 film, showing actors Orson Welles and Glenn Anders in a pensive moment. Columbia Pictures stamp and printed mimeo snipe on the verso.Based on the 1938 novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King. Welles promised to write, produce, and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency 55,000 to help finance costuming for his 1946

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