11.045 Ergebnisse
1942Best.-Nr. 162029N.p.: N.p. 1942. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film showing actor Errol Flynn in a leather aviator jacket. Photographer stamp on the verso. 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. A war film about a group of Allied aviators who must escape the Third Reich after being shot down near the Polish border and captured by the Germans. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and a small splash on the recto and adhesive residue on the verso. N.p. unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 149951N.p.: N.p. 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Walter D. Edmonds' 1942 novel which follows a young man who moves to New York in the early 19th century where he seeks employment in an importing/exporting business. Screenwriter Leonard Lee was best known for his espionage crime and action films in the 1940s and 1950s including "Whispering City" 1947 "Spy Hunt" and "Wyoming Mail" 1950 "Smuggler's Island" 1951 and "The Glass Web" 1953. Green textured faux-leather wrappers with a label affixed to the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Leonard Lee and novelist Walter D. Edmonds. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Leonard Lee and novelist Walter D. Edmonds. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 146256N.p.: N.p. 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. With a manuscript ink notation on the title page reading "draft completed 10/8/76." Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring a retired and reclusive actress back into the spotlight. Told in flashback beginning with her suicide-by-train. The fifth and final pairing of director Billy Wilder and actor William Holden who began their association in 1950 with the classic "Sunset Blvd." 1950. "Fedora" has been seen as a companion piece to that film. White titled self wrappers with credits for screenwriters Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with light toning and soil bound with two gold brads. Eureka Masters of Cinema 147. N.p. unknown
1940Best.-Nr. 152961N.p.: N.p. 1940. Draft script for the 1940 film. A dramatization of the life of noted Norwegian-American football coach Knute Rockne who led the University of Notre Dame team from 1918 to 1930 before dying tragically in a 1931 plane crash at the age of 43. Set in Voss Norway and Indiana. Blue untitled wrappers. Missing title page possibly as issued. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/19/40. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1957Best.-Nr. 152537N.p.: N.p. 1957. First Draft typescript for the Season 1 Episode 3 of the 1953-1963 television series originally aired on July 31 1957 on CBS seen here under the working title "The Transmogrification of Chester Brown." Manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout most noting pagination and editorial revisions. Included with the script are several letters and memos between screenwriter Arthur Hailey agent Maeve Southgate and programming executive Marshall Jamison as well as several typed memos from within Jamison's office discussing revisions to the script dated variously between March 29 and July 30 1957. A meek office clerk at an advertising firm takes a "Personality Projection" course which ignites his self-confidence leading him to pursue greater opportunities at the firm. Blue titled self wrappers noted as LIMITED DISTRIBUTION / FIRST DRAFT in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper along with an annotation noting the date 4/24/57 with credits for screenwriter Arthur Hailey. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Arthur Hailey. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered III-21. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. N.p. unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 159148N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing actress Jean Harlow in a short-sleeve blouse and shorts surrounded by dancers. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A beautiful stage star is torn between the loves of a devoted wealthy fan and her agent. Loosely based on the real-life scandal of the marriage of torch singer Libby Holman and tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly age toned else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1965Best.-Nr. 159607N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of cast and crew members filming on location for the 1965 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of photographer Federico Grau. Based on Boris Pasternak's controversial Nobel Prize-winning 1957 novel following a married physician whose life is irreversibly changed by the Russian Revolution and resulting Civil War. Nominated for ten Academy Awards winning five including Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Pasternak's novel was widely banned in the Soviet Union due to its perceived criticism of the Soviet government forcing director David Lean to begin filming on location in Spain-chosen in large part as a result of his positive experiences filming "Lawrence of Arabia" there several years prior as well as the promise of snow. The film was shot over ten months in Soria and Aragon and at the Aldeadavila Dam with a large-scale Moscow set built outside of Madrid as documented throughout the archive. An unseasonably warm winter in Spain obligated production to head to Finland and Canada in the final months of shooting in order to obtain a sufficiently wintry backdrop for landscape scenes. Shot on location throughout Spain Finland and Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. N.p. unknown
1945Best.-Nr. 159854N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film showing director Marcel Carné on the set. French annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso along with a Photofest label and a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the bottom edge. An influential classic of French cinema following a courtesan in nineteenth century Paris who finds her attentions torn between four possible suitors-a mime an actor a thief and an aristocrat. Set and shot on location in France. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 141. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1941Best.-Nr. 159940N.p.: N.p. 1941. Vintage publicity photograph of actor Humphrey Bogart from the 1941 film noir. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1941 novel by W.R. Burnett who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Huston. A career criminal and a former taxi dancer become involved in a jewel heist in a small town in California's Sierra Nevada. A breakthrough film for Bogart and the film that kicked off a long period of collaboration between Bogart and John Huston. Shot on location in San Bernardino National Forest and Lone Pine. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly age toned with brief wear at the top corners. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 141006N.p.: N.p. 1967. Three Draft scripts for an unproduced film. During the Korean War a group of marines are pinned down behind enemy lines in a remote village where the only survivor is a widowed Korean woman and her child. Chaos descends as the soldiers find their radio is broken they are running out of supplies and they are slowly being picked off by snipers. Set in Korea. Script 1: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Twelve leaves with last page of text numbered twelve. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. Script 2: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. Script 3: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. N.p. unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 158645N.p.: N.p. 1922. Vintage borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1922 film showing director and actor Erich von Stroheim. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The legendary von Stroheim's third film as a director at time the most expensive film ever made and the first to cost over one million dollars although the original budget was $250000. The overruns led to the first of many clashes between von Stroheim and Irving Thalberg then just 21 years old and still in his first year as the head of Universal. Thalberg eventually shut down production and took over editing the film himself cutting nearly three hours from the footage in the first of several instances in the next few years that would assert the primacy of the studio over that of the director. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 160585N.p.: N.p. 1935. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1935 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos in French. A farm girl gets tangled up with a depraved Parisian after starting a new job as a performer at a seedy music hall but finds redemption in her relationship with a wholesome milkman. One of two films written by notorious French author Colette the other being Marc Allégret's "Lake of Ladies" in 1934. Shot on location in Paris and in Hyères. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the corners one with faint foxing on the bottom edge of the verso. N.p. unknown
1944Best.-Nr. 150383N.p.: N.p. 1944. Two vintage photographs from the set of the 1944 film noir one showing director Fritz Lang closely inspecting a filmstrip the other showing Lang in conversation with actress Joan Bennett. Based on J. H. Wallis' 1943 novel "Once Off Guard." A married psychology professor gets mixed up with a beautiful young woman who plunges him into a world of blackmail and murder. One 9.5 x 7.5 inches one 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 158260N.p.: N.p. 1970. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film. Four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic and most entertaining cult favorite once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first exploitation-horror-camp-musical." The film follows three members of an all-girl rock band called The Kelly Affair who relocate to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Their success comes at the price of their friendship and integrity however and the girls eventually succumb to a nonstop train of decadence drugs and betrayal. Featuring one-hit wonders the Strawberry Alarm Clock supporting performances by Meyer regulars Charles Napier and Haji and a bit part from future Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier the film proved to be Meyer's biggest box-office success. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 836. N.p. unknown
1966Best.-Nr. 152190N.p.: N.p. 1966. Archive of material for an unproduced Western film including two draft scripts two xerographically duplicated copies of Ernest Haycox's story with manuscript ink annotations four pages of handwritten notes for the screenplay and an original draft for the script containing a mix of typescript and xerographically duplicated leaves. First Draft script with a brief typed note from screenwriter Johnny Crawford clipped to the title page introducing the script and a single manuscript ink annotation to page 16 noting an editorial revision. Based on the 1948 story "Dead-Man Trail" by Ernest Haycox. A man carrying a large shipment of gold dust tries to shake bandits off his trail on his way from California to The Dalles Oregon. First Draft: Blue titled card wrappers. Title page present dated December 1966 with credits for screenwriter Johnny Crawford and story credits to Ernest Haycox. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Draft script: Blue titled card wrappers. Title page present dated December 1966 with credits for screenwriter Johnny Crawford and story credits to Ernest Haycox. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. All other ephemera generally Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 158497N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1935 film showing director Michael Curtiz on a camera crane preparing to filming a scene. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of National Film Archive. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini-the first talkie adaptation of one of his works. A young Irish doctor is exiled to Jamaica after rebelling against King James II later becoming one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean. Shot on location in Corona Laguna Beach and Palm Canyon California. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 158494N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing actress Jean Harlow in a short-sleeve blouse and shorts surrounded by dancers. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A beautiful stage star is torn between the loves of a devoted wealthy fan and her agent. Loosely based on the real-life scandal of the marriage of torch singer Libby Holman and tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned with a bruise on the top edge. N.p. unknown
1936Best.-Nr. 157106N.p.: N.p. 1936. Vintage reference photograph of director William Wyler and actors Walter Huston Sam Dodsworth and Kathryn Marlowe Dodsworth's daughter Emily played by Kathryn Marlowe on the set of the 1936 film. Based on the 1934 play by Sidney Howard based in turn on the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. A recently retired automobile magnate and his frivolous wife take an extended trip to Europe only to discover they have grown apart. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 157682N.p.: N.p. 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the 1926 film showing actor Buster Keaton in an elevator wearing a jaunty hat. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. During the Civil War an engineer must work to save the two loves of his life: a woman named Annabelle Lee and a train named The General. A box office disappointment upon release but long since reconsidered and now ranked among the the finest of Keaton's films. Shot on location in California and Oregon. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 173. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 60. N.p. unknown
1942Best.-Nr. 157691N.p.: N.p. 1942. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Mitchell Leisen talking to actors Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray between takes. Provenance stamp on the verso. An eccentric unmarried actress who longs for motherhood finds an abandoned baby and enlists a divorced pediatrician's help in raising the child. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with paper tape reinforcements on the corner versos. N.p. unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 156217N.p.: N.p. 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 pre-Code film showing director Victor Fleming and a camera crew watching as actors Clark Gable and Jean Harlow film an intimate scene. Based on the 1928 play by Wilson Collison about a love triangle on a rubber plantation in French Indochina. The film was the second of six films Gable and Harlow made together following "The Secret Six" in 1931. Basis for the 1953 John Ford film "Mogambo" starring Gable and Ava Gardner. Set in French Indochina. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with two short closed tears at the top edge repaired with paper tape on the verso. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1931Best.-Nr. 151758N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film. In Prohibition-era America two men end up in prison after attempting to sell some home-brewed beer to a policeman. The first feature film to star Laurel and Hardy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good moderately toned overall with creasing and wear to the corners. N.p. unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 151762N.p.: N.p. 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the 1932 short film. With provenance stamps on the verso along with manuscript ink annotations noting the film's title and associated cast and crew members. Hardy goes to visit Laurel in the hospital. Chaos ensues. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good moderately toned and edgeworn overall with a 2.5 inch dampstain to the upper portion of the image. N.p. unknown
1940Best.-Nr. 158029N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film showing actress Margaret Lockwood against a backdrop of "screaming headlines." Based on the 1937 novel by Roy Vickers about a young nurse struggling to find work after she is wrongly accused of murder and subjected to a high-profile court case. The first of several collaborations between director Carol Reed and screenwriter Sidney Gilliat followed by "The Night Train to Munich" 1940 "The Remarkable Mr. Kipps" 1941 and "The Young Mr. Pitt" 1942. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with a faint diagonal crease on the bottom right corner. N.p. unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 153231N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing a near-nude Edy Williams. With the stamp of still photographer Willy Rizzo on the verso. After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic and most entertaining cult favorite once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first exploitation-horror-camp-musical." The film follows three members of an all-girl rock band called The Kelly Affair who relocate to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Their success comes at the price of their friendship and integrity however and the girls eventually succumb to a nonstop train of decadence drugs and betrayal. Featuring one-hit wonders the Strawberry Alarm Clock supporting performances by Meyer regulars Charles Napier and Haji and a bit part from future Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier the film proved to be Meyer's biggest box-office success. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 8 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 836. N.p. unknown
