I noticed Profiles in History updated their webpage with marketing for their next event, Hollywood Auction 29:
ONE MILLION DOLLAR AUCTION OF RARE PHOTOGRAPHS FEATURING HOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST STARS OF THE 1920s & 1930s!
…including such glamorous Hollywood icons as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, and Bette Davis to name a few!
Auction date: November 7th and 8th, 2007 beginning at 12:00 noon Pacific each day.
For the first time in history, over $1 million worth of Hollywood glamour photography dating from the pre-code era of the 1920s-30s will be up for auction. Over 1,000 vintage gallery portraits and publicity photographs will be offered, from such legendary photographers as George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull (Head of MGM’s still department for nearly 40 years) and Ruth Harriet Louise. Ms. Louise was the first female studio photographer in Hollywood, heading Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s portrait studio from 1925-1930.
Catalogs will be available approximately three weeks prior to the auction. Please make sure you’re on our email notification list, available at the link at the upper right corner of our home page.
It will be interesting to see how successful an auction dedicated to vintage photography will be. It seems to have done well as part of the overall Hollywood Auctions (along with posters, props, wardrobe, and memorabilia). Per the website, this is scheduled to be a two-day auction.
Jason De Bord