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8 x 10 Professionally Produced Photo

Selling from our personal collection.

This photo is a top quality high gloss print in near mint condition with white border. Most of our photos were bought over 40+ years from MOVIE STAR NEWS IN NEW YORK.

FROM IRVING KLAW'S INVENTORY WHO OWNED THE RIGHTS TO REPRODUCE THESE IMAGES FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES THAT HE PURCHASED FROM the 1930’s TO 1980’s.

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WE ARE SELLING THESE AS COLLECTIBLES WITH NO RIGHTS INTENDED OR IMPLIED

25+ YEARS OLD - STORED IN DARK CLIMATE CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT

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Movie Star News was a NYC landmark and is a collection of vintage pin-up, bondage, and Hollywood publicity photos amassed over the course of 73 years by Irving Klaw his sister and nephew – nearly 3 million images. The bulk of the film collection covers the years 1938 to 1979 with many photos dating back to 1915;

The family business, which eventually became Movie Star News, began in 1938 opening used bookstore at 209 East 14th Street in Manhattan.

After Irving observed teenagers frequently tearing out photos from his movie magazines, he saw an opportunity and started selling movie star stills and lobby photo cards. He set up a small box of used movie stills. When these quickly sold, he contacted the studios for more stills. Irving approached the studios directly back when most Hollywood studio publicity departments lined Manhattan's 11th Ave and discovered they were in the habit of throwing away their publicity materials after a film had had its run. Irving bought as much as he wanted for almost nothing, convincing publicity departments he was doing them a favor. Irving would take these originals and negatives meant for magazine and newspaper art departments and reproduce 8×10's of them directly for the purchasing public. The customers could order by item number from catalogs of sample photos. These sold so well that he moved the store from the basement to the street-level storefront and renamed it Irving Klaw Pin Ups. Business thrived, and the self-named "Pin-Up King" moved to 212 East 14th Street and took on the name "Movie Star News"

In later years the studios, having thrown away or sold their publicity archives would often have to rent their own photos back from Irving

Fetish photography

By the late 1940s, he was receiving frequent requests for "Damsel-in-distress" photos of actresses being bound and gagged, spanked, and flogged. Sometime between 1947 and 1950, Irving Klaw would produce original bondage pictures. Klaw would retain the rights. His first bondage model was Lili Dawn. She was photographed in midtown studios by various freelance photographers. Eventually, Klaw rented the third floor over Movie Star News and turned it into a shooting studio. While he worked with many different models, Klaw's images with Bettie Page were his most popular and best known. He met Page when he contacted camera clubs looking for models for his burgeoning fetish photography business. Page was the most popular pin-up of the 1950s, appearing on more covers than anyone else in the decade. While she was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for January 1955, Page is best remembered for Klaw's bondage photos and the nudes.