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1935réf. 150693N.p.: N.p. 1935. Three original photographs of Frank Capra and Gary Cooper on the set of the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one photograph referring to the film by its working title "Opera Hat" along with the stamp of photographer A.L. Schafer and one photograph with a date stamp reading April 20 1936 on the verso. The first photo shows Capra with the film script in hand standing next to a wall calendar that prominently reads "Friday December 13th" the day the film was announced. The second is a candid shot of Capra and Gary Cooper and the third is a candid photo of Capra standing in the balcony of one of the film's sets. A small town man discovers he is the sole beneficiary of his estranged and incredibly wealthy uncle's estate and must move to New York to claim his inheritance becoming a moving target for a number of scammers in the process. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. N.p. unknown
1948réf. 156004N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage reference photograph of William Wyler visiting the set of the 1948 film talking to director Fred Zinnemann and actress Jarmila Novotná between takes. A young Auschwitz survivor searches for his mother in the years following World War II. Actor Ivan Jandl was presented with a special juvenile Academy Award but was unable to travel to the US to receive the award due to restrictions by the communist government of his native Czechoslovakia. Shot on location in postwar Germany in Ingolstadt Munich Nuremberg and Würzburg. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and bottom edge. N.p. unknown
1968réf. 145862Hollywood: M.J. Frankovich Productions 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Single manuscript notation on the title page. The story of two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Nevada and California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 5 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 9 1968 and October 17 1968. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. M.J. Frankovich Productions unknown
1964réf. 153070Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Sue Lyons and playwright Tennessee Williams sharing a script on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Williams' 1961 play. An alcoholic former priest finds himself caught between the attentions of three women while leading a failing tour of Puerto Vallarta. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one. Set and shot on location in Mismaloya and Puerto Vallarta Mexico the latter of which became a popular tourist destination after the film's release. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1980réf. 153848N.p.: N.p. 1980. Vintage reference photograph from the 1980 film showing actress Debbie Harry playfully "drumming" empty beer bottles while Meat Loaf looks on to her left. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A rowdy beer distributor from Texas gets roped into becoming a roadie for a touring rock band. Featuring numerous cameos by real-life bands including Blondie Utopia Alice Cooper Asleep at the Wheel Hank Williams Jr. and Roy Orbison. Meat Loaf's first starring role. Shot on location in New York Texas and California. 5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. N.p. unknown
1972réf. 154493New York: Metromedia Producers Corporation 1972. Revised Draft script for the 1973 television film which aired on March 1 1973 on CBS. Copy belonging to uncredited still photographer Jack Stager his name in manuscript marker on top of the title page with the annotations of production dates "12-11-72 to 12-22-72" in manuscript ink and copy number "17" in manuscript green marker. Laid in are a four page and a single page Crew and Staff List a two page Schedule and a three and a single page Cast List all with the annotation of Stager's name in manuscript marker to top right of first page. Based on the 1971 book by Gay Talese about the Bonanno crime family in the 1960s. Salvatore Bonanno takes control of the family business after the kidnapping of his father causing a rift in the family and inciting a bloody Mafioso war. Yellow untitled card wrappers with a titled Metromedia Producers Corporation label. Title page present dated 12-9-72 noted as REVISE with credits for screenwriter Lewis John Carlino and author Gay Talese. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a prong binding. Metromedia Producers Corporation unknown
réf. 1894898699.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1953réf. Alibris.0008135Gold Star Mother's Club of Genesee County 1953. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. light shelfwear someone penciled in the age of many of the soldiers when they died in a very neat hand adds to the book I think. 191 p. Includes illustrations. Gold Star Mother's Club of Genesee County hardcover
1954réf. 151344Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Vintage press kit for the 1954 film containing one full-color illustrated promotional pamphlet three black-and-white photographs of cast and crew members holding Academy Awards and one page of promotional reading material introducing the photographs. Based on screenwriter Budd Schulberg's 1955 novel "Waterfront." A dockworker and would-be prizefighter witnesses a murder at the hands of the local mob boss' men and is forced to stand up to his corrupt union leaders. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards winning eight including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City. Photographs and promotional material Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 647. Ebert I. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
réf. 152527N.p.: N.p. 1970. Dialogue transcript for the infamous unfinished film musical undated circa 1968. Copy belonging to Frank Zappa with a single annotation in Zappa's hand on the top of the first page. Full provenance available. A transcript detailing multiple takes of ten scenes shot by Zappa for his long-planned but never finished experimental film. Transcript primarily addresses scenes featuring Don Preston and Phyllis Smith Altenhaus but also contains dialogue intended to be spoken by Carl Zappa Billy Mundi Aynsley Dunbar Jimmy Carl Black and Zappa himself. Originally innovated in 1967 by Zappa featuring his then-band the Mothers of Invention the film would morph in various ways over the course of the next decade but would ultimately never come to fruition due to a lack of financing. In 1969 the Mothers of Invention released the acclaimed double album "Uncle Meat" an instrumental soundtrack to the unfinished film. Finally in 1987 a direct-to-video "making of" documentary of the uncompleted film was released. Transparent front wrapper with orange back wrapper and spine. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages with light stain on first leaf else Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1956réf. 150328Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of actor Dean Martin on the set of the 1956 film. With the stamp of Paramount photographer Jack Harris on the verso. Two men arrive in a small western community hoping to avenge the deaths of their fathers and eradicate the town's lawless criminals. The penultimate musical comedy film collaboration between Martin and Jerry Lewis. Shot on location in Arizona. 13.5 x 10.25 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the bottom edge. Pitts 3040. Paramount Pictures unknown
1962réf. 149573Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage reference photograph of actors Paul Newman and Shirley Knight examining film negatives with cinematographer Milton R. Krasner looking on. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1959 play wherein a failed Hollywood actor and gigolo returns to his small hometown accompanied by an older faded movie star hoping to win back his former girlfriend. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actor for Ed Begley. Set in St. Cloud Mississippi. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1984réf. 147308Paris: Sofracima 1984. Early draft script for the 1984 Mexican crime film here under the working title "Rainy Days Rainy Nights." Text in English. After her car breaks down in the middle of the night in rural France a young woman is lured to the home of a local pharmacist who promises to allow her to use his telephone to call a towing company. A violent struggle soon ensues forcing the woman to kill him in self-defense after he attempts to sexually assault and strangle her. A very early draft predating substantial revisions by director Juan Lopez Moctezuma. Set in France. White non-standard Sofracima studio wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Emmerich Oross. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 86. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. Sofracima unknown
1971réf. 150579Los Angeles: Fanfare Films 1971. Six vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1971 film. A loose biography of Evel Knievel noted motorcycle daredevil told through flashbacks of his youth in Butte Montana his marriage to his girlfriend Linda and his rise to fame and fortune throughout the 1960s. The first film portrayal of Knievel's life followed by "Viva Knievel!" in 1977 which starred Knievel as himself and "Evel Knievel" in 2004. Set and shot on location in Butte Montana the Ontario Motor Speedway in California and Grand Canyon National Park Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Fanfare Films unknown
1964réf. 149719Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actor Albert Finney. With the stamp of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the verso along with a stamp noting the film's title for the French release "La Force des tenebres." Based on the 1937 film which was based in turn on the 1935 play by Emlyn Williams. A blue-collar sociopath charms his way into the home of a reclusive wealthy invalid where he seduces both her daughter and her maid while posing as the household butler. Set and shot on location in Hertfordshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy with pinholes and light rust to the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1962réf. 151424N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of director Richard Brooks cinematographer Milton Krasner and a camera crew capturing a boat scene with actress Shirley Knight on the set of the 1962 film. With a mimeo snipe and manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1959 play wherein a failed Hollywood actor and gigolo returns to his small hometown accompanied by an older faded movie star hoping to win back his former girlfriend. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actor for Ed Begley. Set in St. Cloud Mississippi. N.p. unknown
1980réf. 147426N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. Title page contains "#40" written in manuscript pencil on the upper right likely a copy number as well as several pages with annotations again in manuscript pencil commenting circling and striking scenes action and dialogue. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. A year before Peter Billingsley would become the familiar face of Ralphie Parker in Bob Clark's 1983 "A Christmas Story" he was Billy a child coping with his parent's recent divorce flying to California with his mom Sally Catherine Hicks to meet her high school sweetheart Mike Paul Le Mat for a vacation in Death Valley. It isn't long before Billy comes across a killer's crime scene leading the killer to them and it is up to little Billy to outsmart him. Set in Death Valley California and New York shot on location in California Arizona and New York. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated October 28 1980 with credits for screenwriter Richard Rothstein. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1953réf. 148513Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager Van Heflin is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911 when corrupt administrator Ruiz George Dolenz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel Adams then finds there's a price on his head. Set in Mexico shot on location in the Simi Hills and the Ray Corrigan Ranch Simi Valley California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing near the edges. Universal Pictures unknown
réf. 148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian. Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. Set and shot on location in Bologna. Script: Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads. List of scenes: Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown
2008réf. G159725147XI4N00Pediment Publishing 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Pediment Publishing hardcover
1958réf. 149313Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1958. Vintage reference photograph from the 1958 film. The commander of an US submarine is tasked with destroying the Japanese aircraft carrier responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Set in the Pacific Ocean. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light bumps to the corners at the left edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1990réf. 140790Minneapolis MN: Mill Creek Entertainment 1990. Early Draft script for the 1995 film preceding the film's completion by 5 years. Winner of the Academy Award. In 1963 Pittsburgh a 77 year old man is forced to adopt his grandson when his parents die. Years later grandpa is evicted from his apartment and moves in with his grandson in Columbus. Eventually his grandson moves back to Pittsburgh and is soon followed by his grandfather who must take care of Michael's kids when Michael's wife dies in an automobile accident. Rocky finally dies at age 107. Set in Pittsburgh shot on location there as well as Indianapolis. Green titled wrappers dated May 31 1990. Title page present dated May 31 1990 with credits for screenwriter Max Apple director George Roy Hill and producers Robert Cort and Scott Kroopf. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Mill Creek Entertainment unknown
1552réf. H8IABU6I693ZAntwerp: Martinus Nutius I 1552. Near contemporary limp vellum sewn on 5 double tanned leather supports cut flush with the bookblock but with later alum-tawed thongs laced through the vellum cover with 6 fragments of a 16th-century manuscript reinforcing the spine of the bookblock blind- and later gold-tooled spine with a neatly lettered title in caps and small caps reading down the spine and a later one in caps and lowercase across the spine headbands in yellow and green old paper labels with letterpress and manuscript shelfmarks. Small folio 27 x 19.5 cm. With a woodcut architectural cartouche on the title-page the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V with columns strapwork and allegorical figures representing stability and fairness a full-page woodcut triumphal arch erected in Ghent for Philips entry with letterpress title and key to elements A-N Nutiuss woodcut device at the end a strapwork cartouche with a crane feeding a worm to its young dozens of woodcut decorated initials 4 series and a vine-leaf ornament Vervliet 170. Set in roman and italic types many and the vine-leaf by François Guyot in Antwerp. First and only early edition in the original Spanish of an eyewitness account of the future King Philip II of Spain's travels from Spain through Italy and the German states to the Low Countries from 1548 to 1550 or 1551 intended as preparation for the duties he would face when he succeeded to in the event only some of the titles of his father the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V who was also King Charles I of Spain. The Aragon humanist scholar Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella ca. 1510/20-1593 served in the Spanish court of Charles V who appointed him tutor to Prince Philip 1527-1598 in 1541. He accompanied Philip on these travels so that his book forms an essential primary source for both the life and personality of the future King Philip II who was to bring Spain its golden age and its greatest power and wealth and for the early beginnings of his relations with the Netherlands which was to revolt against the King bring about Spain's fall from power and develop its own golden age as an independent state. Calvete de Estrella remained in Antwerp when Philip returned to Spain having his book printed there. It is an excellent piece of book production anticipating the role Antwerp was to play as Europe's leading centre of printing and publishing.With an early marginal manuscript note and occasional later mostly pencil notes and marks. With a small worm trail in the inner foot margin of about 40 leaves not approaching the text and faint marginal water stains in the last and first three leaves but still in very good condition. The cover has nearly come loose from the bookblock has some tears and stains has lost its 2 pair of ties and the endpapers are tattered.l Adams C264; Belg. Typ. 539; Iberian books 2403; Heredia 7039; Landwehr Splendid ceremonies 14; Netherlandish books 6408; Palau 40491; Peeters-Fontainas Meridionaux 170; Ruggieri 913; Salvá 3758; USTC 440071; not in Bibl. Belg. Martinus Nutius I, hardcover
1956réf. 140927Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder itself a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Light wear to the margins and pin holes else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoirs du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1958réf. 140666N.p.: Regal Films 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas with annotations throughout relating to her character in the film Laura. A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which when accidentally mixed with human blood turns into space rust. The rust expands rapidly threatening to consume the entire planet. Produced on a tight budget $12500 with $25000 for the screenwriters and rushed to production so that the release would coincide with the Explorer launch. Shot on location in California. Red untitled wrapper lacking front wrapper. Title page present dated March 7 1958 with credits for screenwriters Daniel Mainwaring and George Worthing Yates. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. mechanical duplication with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/4/58 and 3/13/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine lacking front wrapper. Bound with two gold brads. Regal Films unknown
