Top of the Town

by Doris Nolan Gertrude Niesen, George Murphy, Ralph Murphy

$350 · Offered by Royal Books

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film, showing actress Gertrude Niesen and other cast and crew members on the set during a rehearsal. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil, Spanish printed mimeo snipe, and provenance stamps on the verso.A bleeding-heart heiress starts a high-art nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper, but the venture is unsuccessful until a bandleader convinces her to jazz up the

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