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"The Golden Age of Theater" Healdsburg Auction

"The Golden Age of Theater" Healdsburg Auction 95448

Step right into the enchanting world of theater history with our exclusive online auction featuring a stunning collection of programs and playbills from San Francisco's most unforgettable shows, spanning the 1940s through the 1980s.

This remarkable treasure trove showcases performances by legendary stars such as Mickey Rooney, Marlon Brando, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Burton, James Mason, John Gielgud, Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck, and Bob Hope. Whether you're a passionate theater enthusiast, a devoted collector, or simply want a piece of entertainment history, this auction is one you won't want to miss!

Every program and playbill tell a story, capturing the magic of live performances and the glamour of the stars that graced the stages. Don't miss your chance to own a piece of this rich artistic legacy, perfect for display in your home, office, or collection.

Join us for this exciting auction and bid on these rare artifacts of theatrical brilliance. Each item is ready for a new chapter, and who knows — your winning bid could land you a show-stopping conversation starter!

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What You Will Find In This Auction

Lot 4 Program “Sugar Babies,” featuring Mickey Rooney and Anne Miller (1979)

Lot 27 Program “A Streetcar Named Desire,” featuring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Jessica Tandy (1947)

Lot 41 Program “Joan of Arc,” featuring Ingrid Bergman (1948)

Lot 42 Program “The Rope,” featuring Richard Burton (1953)

Lot 44 Program “Julius Caesar,” featuring Marlon Brando, James Mason and John Gielgud (1950)

Lot 45 Single original mid-20th century souvenir booklet featuring Bob Hope (1949)

Lot 46 Program “Odyssey,” featuring Yul Brynner (1975)

Lot 47 Program “Mother Wore Tights,” featuring Betty Grable and Dan Daily

(1947)

Lot 49 Program “Applause,” featuring Lauren Bacall (1972)

Lot 59 Program “Angle Street” Gregory Peck and Laraine Day (1947)

Auction Run Time:

Start Date/Time 2025/08/19 5:00:00:PM

End Date/Time 2025/08/28 6:00:00:PM

Pick up Days and Times:

FRIDAY August 29, 2025: 10:00am - 4:00pm

SATURDAY August 30, 2025: 9:00am - 12:00pm

After you schedule your pick-up time, you will be given the address of the pick-up location.

WHERE IS: No refunds or returns. North Bay Online Estate Auction Inc. does not guarantee the working order of any clock, watch, electronic or mechanical devise. Dimensions given may be approximate. We make every effort to describe lot items as accurately as possible. Expect normal signs of wear and tear associated with antiques, vintage and used items. We do not list every flaw. All items are sold AS IS.

Start Date/Time: 2025-08-19 17:00:00

End Date/Time: 2025-08-28 18:00:00

PickUp Date/Time: Pick up Days and Times: FRIDAY August 29, 2025: 10:00am - 4:00pm SATURDAY August 30, 2025: 9:00am - 12:00pm

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	Lot # 1 - Original Alvin Theatre Playbill – High Spirits (Noël Coward Classic) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 2 - Jeremy Brett in Dracula – A Rare Collection of Theatrical Elegance Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 3 - Playbill 1963 – Broadway’s Here's Love at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 4 - Vintage Sugar Babies Playbill – Rooney & Miller Radiance! Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 5 - Orpheum Theatre Pirates of Penzance Playbill Magazine Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 6 - Rare Playbill – 1979 Curran Theatre “The Last Of Mrs. Cheyney” Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 7 - 20th Century Playbill Cabaret Issue with Broadway Legends 1967 Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 8 - A Timeless Showcase of Global Stagecraft and Theater Rarities Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 9 - Legends Onstage: Fonteyn–Nureyev, Barnum, Liszt & California Arts Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 10 - Frames of Grace: Soviet Ballet & Opera Theatrical Archive Anthology Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 11 - Historic Triple Decade Performing Arts Memorabilia Quadruple Set Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 12 - San Francisco Beauty and the Beast Nutcracker Ballet Playbill 1963 Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 13 - Romance and Grandeur: Geary Theatre’s 1967 Land of Smiles Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 14 - Winter Garden Playbill – Follies (1971 Broadway Original) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 15 - The King and I – 1965 Booklet of Stage Heritage Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 16 - 1965 Visual Program – Doctor Zhivago (Lean & Ponti Masterpiece) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 17 - Broadway Time Capsules: Iconic Playbills Preserving Musical Theatres Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 18 - Rare Vintage Playbills: Zenda, Sleuth & City Center Productions Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 19 - Classic Theater Elegance: 4 Iconic Playbills from Stage & Sea Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 20 - Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of ’56: A Broadway Legacy Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 21 - 20th Century Stage Legends: A Theatrical Treasure Trove Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 22 - A Triad of Time: Programs That Illuminate Stage, Sound, and Space Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 23 - Gilded Voices Of The American Theatrical Stages - Play Bill Inserts Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 24 - Original Alcazar & Curran Theatre Playbill Set – Mid-Century Legends Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 25 - Annie Get Your Gun (Rodgers & Hammerstein / Mary Martin Edition) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 26 - Playbill Collection Icons of Dance & Opera (1990s Curran Theatre Set) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 27 - Original Barrymore Playbill Dou Set – Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 28 - Geary Theatre Playbill – American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 29 - 20th Century Playbill – Wilson (Darryl F. Zanuck’s Technicolor Epic) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 30 - Mae West's Diamond Lil and Sextette Legacy Trio Set Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 31 - Latin Quarter Playbill – Red Hot and Beautiful (Ina Ray Hutton Revue) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 32 - Alvin & Geary Playbills – Barretts of Wimpole St. (Cornell Tour) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 33 - Gertrude Lawrence in Noël Coward’s “Tonight at 8:30” – Curran Set Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 34 - MGM Promotional Set – Huckleberry Finn (1960 CinemaScope Film) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 35 - Leonard Sillman’s “New Faces of 1952” – Two-Piece Tour Ephemera Set Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 36 - Curran Theatre Playbill – Naughty Marietta (1948 Civic Light Opera) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 37 - War Memorial Opera House Fonteyn & Nureyev, Royal Ballet (1965) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 38 - Forty-Sixth Street Theatre Playbill – Finian’s Rainbow Musical Legend Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 39 - 1946 Empire Theatre, O Mistress Mine (Lunt & Fontanne Comedy Classic) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 40 - Private Lives – Tallulah Bankhead, Plymouth Playbill, 1948 Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 41 - 1948 Special Edition – Joan of Arc: Film Starring Ingrid Bergman Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 42 - Original: 1953 CinemaScope Poster – The Robe (20th Century-Fox Epic!) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 43 - Original 1946 Curran Theatre Playbill & Program – Oklahoma Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 44 - Julius Caesar – Marlon Brando, James Mason & John Gielgud 1950 Revival Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 45 - Original Bob Hope Souvenir Booklet - Life Films & Troop Entertaining Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 46 - Curran Theatre Playbill – Odyssey (Yul Brynner & Joan Diener 1975) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 47 - Original 20th Century-Fox Poster – Mother Wore Tights (1947 Musical) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 48 - Laurence Olivier’s Henry V – Stage & Screen Legacy Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 49 - Original Curran Theatre Playbill – Applause (Lauren Bacall Star Role) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 50 - San Francisco Performing Arts Archive – 16 Playbills from 1974–1976 Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 51 - Authentic Opera & Musical Playbill Set – Curran, War Memorial, Met Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 52 - Curran & Geary Playbill Set – SF Theatre Gems 1967–1978 Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 53 - Sixteen Historic Booklets – Broadway, Film & Music Legends Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 54 - Auction Showcase – Rare Stage & Broadcast Ephemera from 1946–1987 Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 55 - Rare Cultural Ephemera from Stage, Screen & Print (1943–1980s) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 56 - San Francisco Stage Legacy – 17 Playbill of Rare Theatrical Provenance Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 57 - SF Civic Light Opera Booklet – My Fair Lady (1965 Cast Edition) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 58 - 1973 Curran Theatre Playbill – Margaret’s Gone With The Wind Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 59 - Angel Street Program & Playbill Featuring Gregory Peck & Laraine Day Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 60 - Paramount Souvenir Booklet –Samson and Delilah (1949 Technicolor Epic) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 61 - San Francisco Ballet Guild Booklet – Christensen Era Cast & Creatives Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder bigridge Current Bid $5.00 Details
	Lot # 62 - Geary Theatre Playgoer – The Master’s Chair (Original Cast Edition) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 63 - Disneyland’s Vacationland – Fall 1958 Collector’s Booklet Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 64 - Chatbot College Playbill – “No, No, Nanette” (1989 Revival) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 65 - Western Hero Retrospective – TWA Booklet (1976 Edition) Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details
	Lot # 66 - PIA 1962 Calendar – “Dresses of Pakistan” Cultural Showcase Starting Bid: $ 5.00 Bids: This sale will end in:	Higher Bidder -- Current Bid No Bid Details