1957réf. 144375Universal City: Universal City Studios 1957. Vintage photograph of makeup artist Maurice Seiderman and Orson Welles on the set of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations in pencil and rubber stamp on the verso. Virgil Renchler Orson Welles owns the majority of a small western town's assets. Some of his employees kill a young migrant laborer stirring major controversy when the newly elected sheriff goes to great lengths to bring them to justice. Shot on location in Conejo Velley California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby UK. Spicer US. Spicer UK. Universal City Studios unknown books
1969réf. 158060New York: Boss Distributors 1969. Vintage pressbook for the 1969 adult film. 11 x 17 inches bi-fold. Very Good plus folded horizontally with faint creasing at the top. Boss Distributors unknown books
1974réf. 142756Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1974. Original Japanese program for the US film "The Great Gatsby." Full-color wrappers with black and white text and black and white and full-color photos throughout. Text in Japanese. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola Jack Clayton's film has cemented its place in cinema history. Winner of two Academy Awards. Set in New York shot on location in Rhode Island New York and England. 12 x 9 inches. Twelve pages saddle stapled. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
réf. 146574N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Included with the bound script are five xerographically duplicated copies of the script individually partially bound with one staple to the top left corners and two unbound copies of the title page. A series centering the adventures and exploits of the members of a women's rodeo association. Yellow untitled generic Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency card wrappers. Title page present noted as Format for an action series for Television with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 17. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall with a small dampstain on the front wrapper's bottom edge bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 147354N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced television film. Bandit Samuel Thaddeus Tartar arrives in town injured from a gunfight forcing his mother to admit that she has lied about his profession for years to preserve both of their reputations. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" 1960 and for his prolific work in Western films such as "Outlaw Gold" 1950 "Whistling Hills" 1951 and "Black Eagle of Santa Fe" 1965. Set in the American West. TItled self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper with credit for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered III-21. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with one gold brad. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 146419N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced television film. With the name "ILSE LAHN" a reader for the Paul Kohner Agency in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper. Bandit Samuel Thaddeus Tartar arrives in town injured from a gunfight forcing his mother to admit that she has lied about his profession for years to preserve both of their reputations. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" 1960 and for his prolific work in Western films such as "Outlaw Gold" 1950 "Whistling Hills" 1951 and "Black Eagle of Santa Fe" 1965. Set in the American West. Mustard yellow generic Paul Kohner Talent Agency card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Rear wrapper stamped No. 555 on the lower edge of the recto. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered III-21. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970réf. 140746N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script ribbon copy typescript for the pilot episode of an unproduced television series. Jonothan Doom an ex-war correspondent has turned private investigator in this series along with his sidekick old cop Shannon Muldoon. Using their wits and judo techniques instead of firearms their unorthodox approach to crime will bring them fame and infamy in an age where they will bring bad guys to justice but perhaps end up behind bars themselves much to the chagrin of the police commissioner. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 51 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Ribbon copy typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining on the front wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1971réf. 150760Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Complete set of eight studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Based on screenwriter Jeremy Larner's 1964 novel. Jack Nicholson's directorial debut a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s following several college students navigating Vietnam War protests uncertain romantic relationships and their own dubious futures after graduation. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout Eugene Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1979réf. 162749Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1979. Shooting script for Season 2 Episode 14 of the 1979-1980 television series. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast or crew member with their name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Based on the classic 1976 film starring Walter Matthau about an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of an unsuccessful youth baseball team. In this episode the kids pressure Buttermaker to take them on a camping trip. Beige titled wrappers dated July 18 1979 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT. Title page present dated July 18 1979 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Paul Diamond and others. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 35. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1990réf. 167034Universal City: The Arthur Company 1990. Final Draft script for the thirteenth episode of the second season of the 1989-1991 syndicated television series which aired on June 17 1990. Script with manuscript ink annotations on one page page 23 underlining dialog. Based on the seminal 1967-1970 police procedural television series created by and starring Jack Webb. The revival series which was aired in tandem with "The New Adam-12" was a humorous re-imagining of the series with entirely different characters and starred Jeff Osterhage as Detective Vic Daniels Bernard White as Detective Carl Monia and Don Stroud as Captain Lussen. The series aired for two seasons and 52 episodes premiering on October 24 1998 and ending on September 9 1990. In this episode Sgt. Daniels poses as a killer-for-hire to break up a marijuana smuggling operation. Front wrapper integral with title page dated 03/01/90 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stan Berkowitz. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 25. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. The Arthur Company unknown books
1972réf. 149603Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film showing actors Gary Lockwood and Jacqueline Bisset in a candid pose. A journalist returns to her hometown to write an article about women's liberation and is surprised to discover her mother and sister are already self-declared feminists. Shot on location in Denver Colorado. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1969réf. 162103Paris: Les Films Fernand Rivers 1969. Vintage program for the 1969 French film. Text and titles in French. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Suspecting her husband of infidelity a woman decides to take a trip with her married boss to his holiday home on the Côte d'Azur. 8 x 9 inches folded twice and measuring 23.5 x 9 inches unfolded. Very Good plus. Les Films Fernand Rivers unknown books
1962réf. 162597N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1960 French film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A group of four schoolgirls escape their destitute lives to a housing project an abandoned house on an island. When an older girl reveals their secret to the schoolmistress scandal breaks out. Shot on location in River Marne France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969réf. 148270Paris: Cocinor 1969. Vintage French lobby card from the 1969 film. As a theater group prepares for a production of Racine's "Andromanque" we follow the collapse of the marriage between Claire Bulle Ogier the actress and Sebastien Jean-Pierre Kalfon the director of the production. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus eleven with pinholes at corners. Rosenbaum 1000. Cocinor unknown books
1980réf. 151130Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 13 black and white photographs and 10 gatherings of promotional reading material. A divorced father fights for visitation rights of his children when his ex-wife and their children disappear after joining the federal witness protection program with his ex-wife's new husband who is a shady low-tier mobster. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1988réf. 169170Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Vintage film program for the 1988 film. Bi-fold with a two color front panel and full credits in the interior spread. In 1988 Earth makes first contact with an alien civilization and in 1991 after three years of quarantine the "Newcomers" are slowly integrated into society. Mandy Patinkin stars as Sam Francisco the first "Newcomer" police officer partnered with a racist police officer James Caan to investigate a homicide. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. The film spawned a short-lived Fox television series 1989-1990 five Fox network television movies 1994-1997 as well as eight comic books 1988-1992 and eight novels 1993-1995. 9 x 11.5 inch Bi-fold. Very Good with light overall rubbing and creasing to the extremities. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1972réf. 154881Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Vintage press kit for the 1972 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing five gatherings of promotional reading material. The last movie to be filmed on the famed MGM "back lot." A small town sheriff in California finds that his investigation into the murder of a pregnant woman uncovers a web of deceit a Doberman Pinscher and a mysterious nurse ambiguously connected to the murder. Folder and promotional material Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965réf. 147218Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1965. First Draft script for the 14th and final episode of the first and only season of "Blue Light" originally aired on ABC on May 18 1966. With manuscript ink annotations to the cast list noting the names of prospective actors for each role. An American spy living in Germany during World War II receives orders to kill a scientist who appears to be completing an atomic bomb for the SS but soon realizes the man may be working against the Nazis after all. Set in Germany. Red titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper dated DECEMBER 22 1965. Title page present dated December 22 1965 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Harold Livingstone. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
1957réf. 144615Nice: Studios de la Victorine 1957. Original black-and-white still photograph from the 1957 French film here under the original title "Une manche et la belle." Vidal and Demongeot are seen sunbathing worriedly on marble. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil French film title and Demongeot's and Vidal's names in manuscript ink on the versos. Noirish murder drama loosely based on Chase's novel "The Sucker Punch" 1954. Betty Farnwell Miranda is a rich widow living in Nice with a bewitching daughter Eva Demongeot. Betty marries Philippe Vidal a good-looking but self-interested man. Cue Eva. Philippe falls for the calculating femme fatale who has plans to marry someone else. Betty's life is in danger as Philippe struggles with his transgressions. 7 x 9.25 inches small white border at the foot. Very Good plus with brief ink on the recto and faint creases. Selby France. Studios de la Victorine unknown books
1967réf. 173112N.p.: Continental 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Based on the 1922 novel by James Joyce. Two men spend a day together in Dublin somewhat mirroring the story of Odysseus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Dublin. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and a small tear to the margin on the right edge. Continental unknown books
1974réf. 147348Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. Included with the script is a typed synopsis of the film. An Army veteran travels to California to convince the most highly-decorated man in the US military now an aged comic book lending librarian to come out of retirement to lead a mercenary mission to recoup 30 million dollars on behalf of the Prime Minister of a small South American country. Set on the California coast and the fictional town of Playa del Oro. Orange non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1974 with credits for screenwriter James Poe. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960réf. 153165N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced Western film. Based on the 1959 novel by James Woodruff Smith. A solitary cowboy ventures into the wilderness seeking to take his revenge on the gunslinger who kidnapped his mother and left his father to die. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for novelist and screenwriter James Woodruff Smith. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1940réf. 162233N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A drama about a young farm girl who years for an education after seeing several of her siblings die from poor medical treatment. Jan Fortune is today best remembered for penning several films in the 1930s and 1940s most notably "Dark Command" 1940 and "Mokey" 1942. Blue titled front wrapper missing rear wrapper dated March 8 1940 with credit for Fortune. Title page integral with front wrapper as issued. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good moderately edgeworn wrapper Good side stapled. N.p. unknown books
1970réf. 153168London: Hemisphere Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A dramatization of the life of infamous English aristocrat Jane Elizabeth Digby who married four times and had a succession of unusual lovers including an earl two European kings a sheik an Austrian statesman and the generals of India and Austria. English screenwriter Arthur Hopcraft was best known for his literary adaptations for television including "Hard Times" 1977 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" 1979 "Bleak House" 1985 and "Rebecca" 1997. Brown untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for director Waris Hussein and screenwriter Arthur Hopcraft. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a light tide mark to the left edge of the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Hemisphere Productions unknown books
1978réf. 150162N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless black and white reference photograph from the 1978 film showing actors Lily Tomlin and John Travolta. With an agency stamp on the verso. A socialite divorcee begins a May-December romance with a handsome younger drifter. A notorious box office flop at the time of its release noted by one of the film's crew members as "like being on the voyage of the damned" now considered a camp classic. Set and shot on location in Beverly Hills and Malibu California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
