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1930 (Aug): ROMANCE (Empire, Leicester Square) Film Programme
Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone [8pp, 4.75x7.5; cast list, Empire Theatre News, prices of admission, details of the four preceding "shorts", brief articles about ROMANCE (Greta Garbo Triumphs in Most Alluring Role) and THE BIG HOUSE (The Most Powerful Drama Ever Screened), 2 photos of ROMANCE, 2 photos of THE BIG HOUSE with Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery; separate insert with 5.5x4 portrait of Garbo; most unusual; VG] £4

1936: THESE THREE (Leicester Square Theatre) Film Programme
Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Miriam Hopkins, Margaret Hamilton; dir:William Wyler [4pp, 7.25x9.5; cast list and credits, details of the preceding "shorts" ('Carnival Time', World News Bulletin, and 'Mickey's Grand Opera'; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1950 (Mch): ON THE TOWN (Empire, Leicester Square - "Showplace of the Nation") Film Programme
Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Vera-Ellen, Jules Munshin, Betty Garrett [4pp, 5.5x6.5; cast list and credits, details of the preceding Variety programme (w.Monsewer Eddie Gray); 4 photos; VG] £2

1950 (Jul): ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Empire, Leicester Square - "Showplace of the Nation") Film Programme
Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern [4pp, 5.5x6.5; cast list and credits, details of the preceding Variety programme; 4 photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1950 (Oct): IF YOU FEEL LIKE SINGING (Empire, Leicester Square - "Showplace of the Nation") Film Programme
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Gloria de Haven, Eddie Bracken, Phil Silvers [4pp, 5.5x6.5; cast list and credits, details of the preceding Variety programme, 4 photos; VG] £2

1950 (Dec): THE FORSYTE SAGA (Empire, Leicester Square - "Showplace of the Nation") Film Programme
Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pigeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh [4pp, 5.5x6.5; "The Royal Command Film"; cast list and credits, 4 photos, details of the preceding Variety programme, photo of the next feature: NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER w.Esther Williams; punch holes, else VG] £2

1951 (Nov): TEXAS CARNIVAL (Empire, Leicester Square - "Showplace of the Nation") Film Programme
Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller [4pp, 5.5x6.5; cast list and credits, 2 small photos, details of the preceding Variety programme (w.Georgia Brown); 2 photos; VG] £2

1951 (Dec): WESTWARD THE WOMEN (Empire, Leicester Square - "Showplace of the Nation") Film Programme
Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Henry Nakamura [4pp, 5.5x6.5; cast list and credits, 2 small photos, details of the preceding Variety programme (w.Georgia Brown); slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1952 (Feb): INVITATION (Empire, Leicester Square - "Showplace of the Nation") Film Programme
Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov [4pp, 5.5x6.5; cast list and credits, two photos, details of the preceding Variety programme (w.Doodles and Spider); VG] £2

1955: RICHARD III (London Film Productions) Film Programme
Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Mary Kerridge, Pamela Brown, Claire Bloom, Russell Thorndike, Andrew Cruickshank, Clive Morton, Norman Wooland, Alec Clunes, Douglas Wilmer, Laurence Naismith, Michael Gough, Michael Ripper, Helen Haye, Roy Russell, George Woodbridge, Esmond Knight, John Laurie, Timothy Bateson, Deering Wells, Patrick Troughton, Stanley Baker, Rosalind Knight (uncredited); dir: Laurence Olivier [4pp, 8.5x11.5 stiffened card; colour photo of Olivier and Claire Bloom as Richard and Lady Anne, synopsis, cast list, credits; horizontal fold, else VG] £3

1989 (July): ALEXANDER NEVSKY/1938 (Royal Festival Hall) Film Programme
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Vera Ivashova, Aleksandra Danilova; dir:Sergei M.Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev [24pp; European Premiere of Eisenstein's Film Classic with Sergei Prokoviev's full orchestral score played live by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, with Christine Cairns, mezzo-soprano and the Brighton Festival Choir; cast list, credits, introduction to the screening, articles, stills, photos, biographies etc.; VG] £4

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