There will be no rest for the weary at Philip Weiss Auctions, which concluded a banner year in 2008 and looks forward to continued success through the first half of 2009 and beyond.

Former President Jimmy Carter once said, “Mickey Mouse is the symbol of goodwill, surpassing all languages and cultures. When one sees Mickey Mouse, they see happiness.”

LOS ANGELES – Property from the estate of “Golden Girl” Estelle Getty will be on offer at Bonhams & Butterfields in their June entertainment memorabilia auction on June 14, 2009, in Los Angeles.

Alan Young is most recognized for his role as Wilbur Post in the classic 1960s television series Mister Ed, where his beautiful palomino horse talks and engages him in a series of zany comedic situations.

Combine a thin, likeable British-born comedian with a rotund, happy-go-lucky American-born entertainer, add the element of silent films in the 1920s and the result is the comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

If you were a kid during the late 1940s or early ’50s and you lived within reach of the DuMont TV network, it’s a safe bet that Captain Video was part of your life. 

Memorabilia from some of the greatest acts in rock ‘n’ roll history – the Beatles, Buddy Holly, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and others – will be sold at an auction slated for Sunday, March 1, by Philip Weiss Auctions.

In the 1920s and 1930s animal actors were often big stars featured in lengthy movie fan magazine articles. They “sent” photographs of themselves (signed, of course, by their owners or their press secretaries) to their fans who wrote in to request them.

Now that Frankenstein had reached iconic status since its introduction by Shelly, it lent itself to parodies and reinterpretations.

Paperdoll Review, well known for offering one of the widest selections of paper dolls via mail order and its website, paperdollreview.com, announced it will release nine new classic star paper doll books under its publishing imprint, Paper Studio Press.