‎Script-writer‎

‎Viertel Peter screenwriter; David Selznick producer‎

‎Two Against Tomorrow The Big Parade of 1942 No Time for Tears 12 Stolen Hours Lover Come Back Original treatment screenplay for an unproduced film‎

‎Los Angeles: Selznick International 1942. Second Draft treatment script for an unproduced film "Two Against Tomorrow" with alternate titles "The Big Parade of 1942" "No Time for Tears" "12 Stolen Hours" and "Lover Come Back" also written on the front wrapper. One of a number of original scripts written by noted screenwriter and novelist Viertel for producer David O. Selznick in the early 1940s. We know of one earlier draft of the treatment dated simply "June 1942." This draft has added blue revision pages a distribution page and a date of June 18 1942. Viertel's script went fairly far into the pre-production process. According to a New York Times article on August 19 1942 MGM purchased the property from Viertel who at the time was in the Marine Corps but more likely it was purchased from Selznick as this script dated June 1942 is clearly noted as a Selznick property. The article goes on to note that the picture was assigned MGM to producer Edgar Selwyn. A story set in Manila told from the perspective of a woman working at a Filipino rubber factory during the first raids by the Japanese. With alternate titles likely suggested by Viertel proposed on the title page: "The Big Parade of 1942" "No Time for Tears" "12 Stolen Hours" and "Lover Come Back." Pale blue titled wrappers dated June 18th 1942 with credits for Peter Viertel. Distribution page present with receipt intact rubber stamped copy number as called for. Title page present dated June 1942 with credits for screenwriter Viertel. 53 leaves mimeograph duplication with white revision pages throughout dated either 6/25/42 or 6-26-42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Selznick International unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 130055

‎Vigny Alfred de source work: Jerome Stuart: screenwriter‎

‎SEALED ORDERS". BASED ON A STORY BY ALFRED DE VIGNY‎

‎Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs Inc. 1953. 81144 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in mimeographed wrappers. Occasional pencil annotationssee below ink name on wrapper long crease to lower corner affecting all pages but a good copy. A "Final Master Script" of Jerome Stuart's adaptation of Alfred de Vigny's story prepared as 32B of the MY FAVORITE STORY series. This copy belonged to production supervisor Leon Benson who has signed the upper wrapper and bears his occasional pencil annotations. Inserted in the front is a copy of the shooting schedule and cast calls. ZIV Television Programs, Inc. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT40376

‎Vigny Alfred de source work: Jerome Stuart: screenwriter‎

‎SEALED ORDERS". BASED ON A STORY BY ALFRED DE VIGNY‎

‎Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs Inc. 1953. 81144 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in mimeographed wrappers. Occasional pencil annotationssee below ink name on wrapper long crease to lower corner affecting all pages but a good copy. A "Final Master Script" of Jerome Stuart's adaptation of Alfred de Vigny's story prepared as 32B of the MY FAVORITE STORY series. This copy belonged to production supervisor Leon Benson who has signed the upper wrapper and bears his occasional pencil annotations. Inserted in the front is a copy of the shooting schedule and cast calls. ZIV Television Programs, Inc. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT40376

‎Vigo Jean director screenwriter‎

‎Zero for Conduct Zero de conduite Collection of four photographs from the 1933 film‎

‎Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film 1933. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso two with holograph annotations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." 11.75 x 9.75 inches with wide bottom margins. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis / Argui-Film unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 142664

‎Vilgot Sjoman director screenwriter starring; Lena Nyman Borje Ahlstedt Peter Lindgren starring‎

‎I Am Curious Yellow Collection of six original photographs from the 1969 US release of the 1967 Swedish film‎

‎New York: Grove Press 1969. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 US release of the 1967 Swedish film. <br/><br/>Vilgot Sjoman's controversial erotic drama utilizing both dramatic and documentary filmmaking techniques stars Sjoman's then lover actress Lena Nyman as a young theater student examining the social and political mores of 1960s Sweden and her own sexuality. Parallel is the plot of the actors and filmmakers reacting as themselves to the film they are in the process of making.<br/><br/>Seized by customs upon entry to the US and banned from numerous US cities for sexually explicit scenes it was found in 1969 not to be obscene by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opening the door to more frank and explicit subject matter in American film. <br/><br/>The companion to Sjoman's 1968 film "I Am Curious Blue" which was initially intended to be combined with "I Am Curious Yellow" as one three and a half hour film.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine most with very slight even fading. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 180. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Grove Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 148773

‎Vilgot Sjoman screenwriter‎

‎Siesta Samba Original screenplay for an unproduced film‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced Norwegian film. With holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout. Incomplete as issued. Text in English. <br/><br/>Set in Brazil. <br/><br/>White titled self-wrappers. Title page present noted as Version 3 with credits for screenwriter VILGOT SJOMAN. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Good partially bound with one paper clip. N.p. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 147366

‎Vincent McEveety director; Roswell Rogers screenwriter; Dean Jones Sandy Duncan Joe Flynn Tony Roberts starring‎

‎The Million Dollar Duck Mr. Webfoot Waddle Original screenplay for the 1971 film‎

‎Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1969. Revised First Draft script for the classic 1971 Disney film "The Million Dollar Duck" here under the working title "Mr. Webfoot Waddle." <br/><br/>Based on a story by Ted Key notable writer who created the famous time-traveling duo Mr. Peabody and Sherman both regular characters on the cult classic television series "The Bullwinkle Show" 1960-1964. Professor Albert Dooley Jones brings home an American Pekin duck from his lab as a gift for his son unaware that the duck lays golden eggs. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay on the front wrapper production No. 7286 dated November 19 1969 with credits for story writer Key and screenwriter Rogers. Title page present dated November 19 1969 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Rogers. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication on yellow stock. Pages and wrapper Newar Fine bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 139645

‎Vincent Sherman director; Wendell Mayes screenwriter; Butz Aquino Lew Ayres Don Gordon Bell Anthony Castello starring‎

‎Savage in the Orient Original screenplay for the 1983 television film‎

‎Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1983. Third Draft script for the 1983 television film originally broadcast on CBS. <br/><br/>An American investigator is sent to Manila in order to negotiate the release of a hostage. <br/><br/>Set in Manila. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers notated copy No. 22 and production No. 89. Title page present dated January 6 1983 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Wendell Mayes. 68 leaves with last page of text numbered 66. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 142156

‎Vincente Minnelli director; Betty Comden Adolph Green screenwriter; Judy Holliday Dean Martin Fred Clark starring‎

‎Bells are Ringing Original photograph from the 1960 film‎

‎Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1960 film. Pictured is actor Fred Clark who plays Larry Hastings in the film. <br/><br/>Judy Holliday reprises her Broadway role as Elle a young telephone operator who cannot help but get involved in her customers' lives. This was the last screen role for Holiday who passed away at age 43 from breast cancer. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music. <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in New York and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good with light wear to the top margin and two stamps to the verso one denoting the details of the film and the other cinema archives. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 370. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 139743

‎Vincente Minnelli director; George Wells screenwriter; Gregory Peck Lauren Bacall Dolores Gray starring‎

‎Designing Woman Original photograph from the 1957 film‎

‎London: National Screen Service / MGM 1957. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 US film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>A lighthearted comedy about a sports writer and a fashion designer who get married in a hurry but realize they have nothing in common upon returning to New York. The sportswriter gets involved with the mob and pretends to be covering baseball games on the road to avoid death. Screenwriter Wells won an Academy Award for his story. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good with several short creases overall and pinholes at the extremities. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 132558

‎Vincente Minnelli director; Irving Stone novel; Normin Corwin screenwriter; Kirk Douglas Anthony Quinn James Donald Pamela Br‎

‎Lust For Life Original photograph from the 1956 film‎

‎Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1956. Vintage borderless photograph of Kirk Douglas from the 1956 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone about the tumultuous life of the famous Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh played by Kirk Douglas. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and nominated for three others. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Belgium France and The Netherlands. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 144566

‎VIRGIL POMFRET‎

‎Temptation.‎

‎Edited by David Larkin, Peacock Press, Bantam Book, 1975, 100 pages de reproductions, photographies de Celestine Dars, in 4 broché, état correct, quelques usures et frottements.‎

Bookseller reference : 12006

‎Visconti Luchino director screenwriter; Burt Lancaster Claudia Cardinale starring‎

‎Luchino Visconti and Rina Morelli on the set of "The Leopard‎

‎Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage photograph from the 1963 film. A shot of Visconti working with actress Rina Morelli on the set the former with a bellows and the latter with a parasol. With remarkable provenance as to photograph's vintage on the verso: a rubber-stamped coat of arms made for the film the Pathe-Titanus productions stamp the film was an Italy-France co-production and a stamp for Parimage a French press agency. A lovely candid moment from Visconti's classic homage to the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century. Certainly too the apex of Claudia Cardinale's work in auteur cinema. 9 x 7 inches. Fine. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. Titanus unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 127345

‎Visconti Luchine director screenwriter; Giovanni Testori novel; Suso Cecchi D'Amico Vasco Pratolini Pasquale Festa Campanile‎

‎Rocco and His Brothers Rocco a jeho Bratri Original poster for the 1960 film‎

‎Czechosolvakia: N.p. 1961. Original A1 poster issued circa 1961 for the Czechoslovakian release of the 1960 Italian film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. Artwork by Fremund. 22.5 x 32.25 inches. A few professional repairs to tears at the edges rolled on archival linen. Fine. N.p. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 132281

‎Visconti Luchino director screenwriter; Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa novel; Claudia Cardinale Alain Delon Burt Lancaster sta‎

‎The Leopard Il Gattopardo Original photograph promoting the 1963 film‎

‎Rome: G.B. Poletto 1962. Vintage press photograph showing director Luchino Visconti and stars Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale on the beach at Cannes to promote "The Leopard" with the aid of what is actually a cheetah rather than the titular big cat. With the stamp of United Press International on the verso. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of the Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. Winner of the Palme d'Or and nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. G.B. Poletto unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 143082

‎Vittorio De Sica director screenwriter; Cesare Zavattini screenwriter; Gabriele D'Annunzio novel‎

‎The Countess of Amalfi Original screenplay for an uproduced film‎

‎Rome: Aquila Cinematogtafica 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Based on a story from volume three of "De Novelle Della Pescara" or "The Stories of Pescara" by Gabriele D'Annunzio published in 1902. <br/><br/>Don Giovanni makes a clamorous entrance into a production of "The Countess of Amalfi" in a makeshift theater inside an old military hospital in the small town Pescara. He greatly admires Violetta the opera's star and hosts a party in her honor. <br/><br/>Set in Pescara Italy. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. bright blue tape binding. Title page present with credits for director Vittorio De Sica screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and novelist Gabriele D'Annunzio. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with blue binding tape. Aquila Cinematogtafica unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 144145

‎Vittorio De Sica director; Angelo Pennoni photographer; Cesare Zavattini screenwriter; Carlo Battisti starring; Virgililo Marchi‎

‎Umberto D. Original oversize photograph from the 1952 film‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage oversize double weight matte finish photograph from the set of the 1952 film. <br/><br/>A sobering and striking image of the film's destitute loner and his dog Flike standing in the streets of Rome late in the evening. Shot by the film's still photographer Angelo Pennoni using a striking example of designer Virgilio Marchi's meticulously designed and lit set. <br/><br/>Generally considered the masterpiece of the post-WWII Italian neorealist movement. Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film and director De Sica was nominated for the Grand Prix at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. <br/><br/>16 x 11.75 inches. Very Good with some scuffing at the extremities. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 201. N.p. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 136688

‎Vittorio De Sisti director screenwriter; Ettore Mattia Pino De Martino screenwriters‎

‎Naked England Collection of three original photographs from the 1969 sexploitation film‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 sexploitation film two black and white and one in color. One with the stamp of Studio 111 on the verso. <br/><br/>Two 9.5 x 7 inches one 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus one with light fading on the recto. N.p. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 150478

‎Vladimir Nabokov novel; Rainer Werner Fassbinder director; Tom Stoppard screenwriter; Dirk Bograde Andrea Ferreol Klaus Lowits‎

‎Despair Original photograph from the set of the 1978 film‎

‎Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of the 1978 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Herman Herman Dirk Bograde a Russian immigrant and Jewish business owner in Berlin is targeted by Nazis. While slowly losing his mind he fixates on a man he believes to be his doppelganger. After taking out a new life insurance policy he devises a plan to free himself of his problems. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Germany. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Bavaria Atelier unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 144593

‎Vohrer Alfred and Harald Philip directors; Manfred Purzer writing as Ernst Flugel screenwriter; Georg Thomalia Mascha Gonska‎

‎Herzblatt oder Wie Sag Ich's Meiner Tochter Honeybun or How Do I Tell My Daughter Original screenplay for the 1969 film‎

‎Munich: Roxy-Film and Co KG 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Text in German. Director Harald Philip who presumably worked on the film in addition to its credited director Alfred Vohrer is credited on the title page. A reticent widower is forced to take on the uncomfortable task of educating his 16 year old daughter about sex leading her to request that he find her a boyfriend. Set in West Germany. White untitled self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ernst Flugel. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with gold prong binding. Roxy-Film and Co, KG unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 146544

‎Volker Schlondorff director; Marguerite Yourcenar novel; Margarethe von Trotta screenwriter starring; Genevieve Dormann Jutta‎

‎Coup de Grace Der Fangschuss Original photograph of Volker Schlondorff and others on the set of the 1976 film‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Margarethe von Trotta Volker Schlondorff cinematographer Igor Luther and other crew members on the set of the 1976 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1939 novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Young left-wing aristocrat Sophie von Reval von Trotta sides with the Bolsheviks after being rejected by a young German soldier Matthias Habich preparing to fight the Red Army.<br/><br/>The third and final collaboration between husband and wife team Schlondorff and von Trotta von Trotta here co-writing and starring before von Trotta would branch off into her own esteemed career as director. Previously they worked together on "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" 1971 which von Tratt starred in and co-wrote with director Schlondorff and the New German Cinema masterwork "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" 1975 which they co-wrote and co-directed together. <br/><br/>Set in 1919 Latvia during the Russian Civil War.<br/><br/>12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at far corners. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 192. N.p. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 149849

‎von Sternberg Josef director screenwriter; Joseph L. Mankiewicz Charles Furthman Jules Furthman Herman J. Mankiewicz screen‎

‎Thunderbolt Original photograph from the 1929 film‎

‎Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1929. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1929 film. Shown is George Bancroft being pulled away from a prison cell where Richard Arlen is being held. Nominated for an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus condition with a handful of pinhole tears and a short closed tear at the extremities. Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 136071

‎von Trier Lars director screenwriter; Bjork starring composer; Catherine Deneuve David Morse Peter Stormare starring‎

‎Dancer in the Dark Collection of seven original photographs from the 2000 film‎

‎Denmark: Zentropa Entertainments 2000. Collection of six vintage color still photographs and one borderless photograph of director Lars von Trier on the set of the 2000 film. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive and later the collection of Daniel Bouteiller with respective stamp and label to the verso of four of the stills. A tragic and uncommon take on the classic Hollywood Musical Icelandic pop singer Bjork plays a Czechoslovakian immigrant looking to make a better life for her son who has an inherited genetic disorder that will result in blindness for them both unless she buys him a very expensive operation which she eschews for herself. Winner of the Palme d'Or as well as a Cannes award for Bjork for Best Actress and nominated for an Academy Award as well. Set in rural Washington state shot on location both in Washington and in Sweden and Denmark. 4 x 6 inches. Fine condition. Zentropa Entertainments unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 138759

‎Vonnegut Jr. Kurt novel; Alan Arkin Sheldon Patinkin screenwriter‎

‎Player Piano Original screenplay for an unproduced film‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film "Player Piano" based on Kurt Vonnegut's first novel. After his directorial debut with Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders" in 1971 Alan Arkin wrote this adaptation of Vonnegut's legendary science fiction novel and announced plans to direct in the summer of 1972 with Edward Pressman and Burtt Harris producing. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with a notation in holograph pencil of copy No. 8 the initials "N.H." at the top right corner with credits for screenwriters Arkin and Patinkin and novelist Vonnegut. 182 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 131589

‎W. Somerset Maugham novel; Edmund Goulding director; Catherine Turney screenwriter; Eleanor Parker Paul Henreid Alexis Smith s‎

‎Of Human Bondage Original screenplay for the 1946 film presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith‎

‎Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith with her initials in decorative gilt on the front board bound in full calf. Throughout the script are 5 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves all featuring Smith and costar Paul Henreid. <br/><br/>Based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel about a forlorn artist in France who gives up the trade to become a doctor. Philip Cary Henreid the artist meets Mildred Rogers Eleanor Parker a waitress and becomes dreadfully infatuated in spite of the waitress' complete disregard for him. Eventually the waitress' charms wane and Cary reconnects with a beautiful young writer Nora Nesbitt Smith and their romance flourishes-until Mildred Rogers returns pregnant and in need. <br/><br/>First adapted to film in 1934 directed by John Cromwell and starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis the novel was also adaptated in 1964 by Ken Hughes starring Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey and has been adapted several times for television. <br/><br/>Brown full sheepskin boards with gilt titles. Distribution page present receipt intact. Title page present dated 6/22/44 with credits for screenwriter Turney. 179 leaves including black and white publicity photos bound in mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 8/12/44 and 8/29/44. Very Good. Warner Brothers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 131507