He did not become advocate with one business card, and lobby for corporations with another.
The Skirball exhibition has items from "Casablanca," including costumes worn by Ingrid Bergman and Henreid, film clips, props from Rick's cafe, lobby cards and reviews that were published when the film was released.
"He didn't save a still, a lobby card, a poster," Glaser said.
"When I first started, I'd buy sets of lobby cards [small posters printed on card stock for inside displays] for 50 cents out of dusty boxes in used bookstores and everyone thought I was nuts.
Ms. Miskovsky had stopped singing, and a D.J. named Freddie was "playing his favorite records," as a card in the lobby announced, mostly hip-hop and some trance.
He brought some back to show us, cradling them like a little baby because he was very proud of this hunt, and one of them was a lobby card for a film called Wolf Song from 1927 starring Gary Cooper.
"The dead crime victim from the old newspaper archive, the cinema lobby card of the post-coital sleeper, and the analogue snap of a snoozing sunbather all speak to a passing phase of photography".
Prices for movie star collectibles vary, from $10 for a back issue of Auto Racing Digest with Paul Newman on the cover to $250 for an original movie lobby card for "East of Eden," signed by James Dean, to $300 or more for an original poster of his 1955 movie, "Rebel Without a Cause".
Lobby card, courtesy EYE Filmmuseum Desmet Collection.
Lobby card for 'Night of the Living Dead'.
