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2000réf. 169959N.p.: N.p. 2000. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film an internally duplicated copy with copied hole punches as issued housed in a red inkjet paper box with the title "Hedwig" in manuscript marker to the lid of the box. Based on the 1998 stage musical by director John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. Hedwig a genderqueer punk rock singer from East Berlin tours the US with her band the Angry Inch shadowing the tour of arena rock star Tommy Gnosis her former lover and protégé who stole her songs. As she travels she tells the story of her life culminating in a botched sex reassignment surgery to escape East Berlin with Tommy immediately before the Berlin Wall fell and Tommy left her. Shot on location in Toronto. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter John Cameron Mitchell. Title page present dated 1/3/00 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter John Cameron Mitchell and Song Lyrics by Stephen Trask. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining to the bottom right of the front wrapper and first three leaves bound with a prong binding. Criterion Collection 982. N.p. unknown books
1998réf. 169960N.p.: N.p. 1998. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film. An agency copy printed on the rectos and versos written seven months prior to the commencement of the production with the marker annotation of "O" on the front wrapper. A modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello" set in a US high school wherein Odin James Mekhi Phifer the only black student at Palmetto Grove Academy who is the star basketball player and dating the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi Julia Stiles is the envy of his troubled friend Hugo Josh Hartnett who plots a deadly scheme to sow mistrust between Desi and Odin. Shot on location in Charleston South Carolina. Untitled International Creative Management wrappers. Title page present dated 08/12/98 noted as Revision with credits for screenwriter Brad Kaaya. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication on the rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining to the rear board bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1993réf. 169975N.p.: Wife N' Kids Productions 1993. Fifth Draft script for the 1993 film. With extensive manuscript marker and ink annotations to the front wrapper and manuscript ink annotations to six pages. After his grandmother is murdered a nerdy repairman with a knack for invention stumbles onto a method to make his clothes bulletproof and decides to become the low budget superhero "Blankman" to help defend his neighborhood from crime. Set in New York City filmed on location in Chicago Illinois. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 20 1993 noted as 5th DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Damon Wayons "based on revisions" by Wayons J.F. Lawton and Chris Matheson and "Revised by" Wayons and Lawton. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Wife N' Kids Productions unknown books
1939réf. 156293Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1939 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso and one with a provenance stamp on the verso. The only feature film written by Langston Hughes in collaboration with African American actor Clarence Muse who also appeared in the film in the role of Uncle Caton. While Hughes and Muse intended to create a story about antebellum Louisiana with a more accurate portrayal of African Americans' role during the period studio interference inevitably compromised their initial vision. Set in Louisiana shot on location in Calabasas and Santa Monica California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1950réf. 169980N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith with the maker annotation of "H.J. Smith" and a telephone number on the top left corner of the front wrapper. Script with four carbon typescript pages the final three pages and a second title page with the alternative title "The Last American" found preceding the title page matching the front wrapper. The title page with the title matching the front wrapper with a manuscript marker annotation striking second screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas. Nathan E. Douglas was the pseudonym of blacklisted screenwriter Nedrick Young with whom Smith co-wrote the Academy Award winning script for the 1958 film "The Defiant Ones" as well as the acclaimed 1960 film "Inherit the Wind." For generations Joshua Cable's family have lived on their farm in the Appalachia Mountains. After strip mining has left everyone but the coal companies destitute and all the farms poisoned with coal dust Cable desperately gathers the help of other impoverished men to steal equipment from the coal company and mine his farmland for coal in spite of having sold the mineral rights to his land to the coal company years ago. Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one with credits for screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith and one for screenwriters Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas with Douglas' name stuck. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication with four pages carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1978réf. 169977N.p.: N.p. 1978. Archive of 180 pages of post-production documents including Italian and English dialogue-only scripts regarding English translations and subtitles for the 1975 Italian film here under the working English title "Young Dracula." Included in the archive are: 68-page dialogue-only script in Italian with manuscript ink annotations on 28 pages checking dialog and occasionally noting timing. Attached is a carbon typescript letter signed from distributor Robert M. Phillips to a "Mr. Finder" at Titra Film Laboratories in New York regarding the English subtitling for the film dated December 18 1978. Xerographic duplication. 46-page dialogue-only script in English with manuscript ink annotations on every page noting timing and checking dialogue. 40-page carbon typescript "English Copy Superimposed Spotted List" on "Spottted and Edited by Nat and Robert Hoffberg" onionskin forms with manuscript ink annotations on nine pages regarding dialogue and timing. 15-page carbon typescript of "Revised text" on onionskin stock with ink annotations on every page checking and noting dialogue. Four ribbon copy typescript pages on onionskin stock of "Changes For Spotting List" and "Additional Changes for Young Dracula." Three ribbon copy typescript pages on onionskin stock comprised of two trailer spotting list pages and a one page "Changes for Trailer Spotting List." Three-page Xerographic copy of "Trailer Dialogue" with manuscript ink annotations throughout noting timing and checking dialogue. Typed letter signed on onionskin stock from Phillips to Robert Hoffberg dated January 19 1979 regarding discrepancies in dialogue translations. Giallo director Lucio Fulco's vampire comedy wherein a boorish quick-tempered toothpaste factor owner finds himself thirsty for blood and re-examining his life after a curse from a gypsy aunt and a business trip to Romania where he shared a bed with a suave vampire. Shot on location in Rome Italy. Italian dialogue-only script: Front wrapper integral with cover letter. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 68. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine letter Very Good plus unbound with a large paper clip to the top left corner. English dialogue-only script: Front wrapper integral with first leaf. 46 leaves with the last page of text numbered 46. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound with a binder clip to the top left corner. Letter dated January 19 1979 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good with a small closed tear to the right side and a large closed tear to the top left and light edgewear and creasing. All other documents 8.5 x 11 inches to 8.5 x 14 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown books
1983réf. 169954New York: Cates Films 1983. Revised script for an unproduced film. A drama about a psychology professor who gets involved with a sexual abuse case against a respected therapist. Playwright Jerome Coopersmith wrote prolifically for television and the stage throughout the mid- to late-twentieth century. He is best remembered today for his writing for "Hawaii Five-O" 1968-1980 and the 1974 Christmas television special "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" but also contributed episodes for "Armstrong Circle Theater" "The Streets of San Francisco" "Combat!" "Spenser for Hire" and others. In 1965 he received a Tony nomination for the Sherlock Holmes Broadway musical "Baker Street" and wrote and co-wrote a number of off-Broadway plays including "Eleanor" 1967 about the early life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Coopersmith and Cates Films would work together in 2004 on the television movie adaptation of the 1980 Mary Higgins Clark novel "The Cradle Will Fall." Untitled William Morris Agency wrappers with clear front wrapper and navy rear wrapper. Title page present noted as Revised dated November 1983 with credit for Coopersmith. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Cates Films unknown books
1974réf. 169951Los Angeles: Rankin/Bass Productions 1974. Draft script for the 1974 animated Christmas television special originally aired on CBS on December 8 1974. From the archive of screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. A children's Christmas tale loosely based on Clement Moore's classic 1823 poem. Although produced in the US the special was animated in Japan by Topcraft an animation studio later linked to Studio Ghibli. Topcraft would collaborate numerous times with Rankin/Bass throughout the 1970s and 1980s most notably on "The Hobbit" 1977 and "The Last Unicorn" 1982. Script housed in a mylar folder with a navy blue binding. Pink titled William Morris Agency wrappers. Title page present dated 3-12-74 with credits for Moore and screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Rankin/Bass Productions unknown books
1978réf. 170201Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1978. Draft script for the 1978 television movie "Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold" seen here under the working title "Centerfold" which aired October 23 1978 on NBC. Copy belonging to unknown crew member Irwin Draper with his name in manuscript in on the front wrapper. One of Kim Basinger's earliest film roles and the film that would begin to transition her reputation away from being a model to that of a respected screen actress. Here she plays a Texas beauty queen who moves to Hollywood to seek her fame only to wind up posing for a centerfold. Set in Texas and California. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 25 1978 with credits for screenwriters Nancy Audley and Howard Chesley and producers Robert Greenwald and Frank von Zerneck. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication. Pages and wrapper Fine bound with two copper brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1945réf. 170263Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1945. First Draft Continuity script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed letter dated January 11 1946 from story department head David Stephenson to director Brian Foy critiquing the script's plot and recommending revisions. Annotations on the distribution page in manuscript pencil regarding potential casting options. Not to be confused with the 1953 film starring Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire. An orphan turned successful pop singer organizes a show-stopping dance and music event to raise money for his former orphanage while balancing a love triangle with two beautiful women. Screenwriter Richard Macaulay is best known for "Riding on Air" 1937 "Ready Willing and Able" 1937 "The Roaring Twenties" 1939 and "Born to Kill" 1947. Orange titled wrappers dated August 30 1945 and noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper stamped copy No. 14. Distribution page present receipt removed. Title page present dated August 30 1945 noted as 1st Draft Continuity with credit for screenwriter Richard Macaulay. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1990réf. 170252N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film seen here under two titles: "Once Upon a Poor Boy" and "Flavor Tale" the latter in manuscript ink on the title page. A modern take on "Cinderella" about an unpopular African-American teenager who is helped out by his "Funky Freshfather" a magical being sent to help the boy get ready for the school formal. Screenwriter Tyger Williams wrote the screenplay for "Menace 2 Society" 1993 and continues to write prolifically for television. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Williams. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2011réf. 170195Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 2011. Revised Draft script for the 2013 film with rainbow revision pages throughout. Based on the 2012 book "Gangster Squad: Covert Cops the Mob and the Battle for Los Angeles" by Paul Lieberman. A dramatization of the formation of the "Gangster Squad" a team of Los Angeles police officers and detectives tasked with taking down a prominent crime boss. Set in 1949 Los Angeles shot on location in Los Angeles. White untitled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated September 8 2011 noted as FULL PINK with credits for Lieberman and screenwriter Will Beall. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 8 and November 22 2011. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown books
1971réf. 170164Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1971. Final Draft script for Season 3 Episode 17 of the 1969-1976 television series. A long-running medical drama that followed doctors Paul Lochner and Joe Gannon as they went about their daily lives at a university hospital in Los Angeles. In this episode Gannon reconnects with an old flame a doctor with a troubled past. Originally aired on January 19 1972 on CBS. Screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith wrote prolifically for television and the stage throughout the mid- to late-twentieth century. He is best remembered today for his writing for "Hawaii Five-O" 1968-1980 and the 1974 Christmas television special "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" but also contributed episodes for "Armstrong Circle Theater" "The Streets of San Francisco" "Combat!" "Spenser for Hire" and others. In 1965 he received a Tony nomination for the Sherlock Holmes Broadway musical "Baker Street" and wrote and co-wrote a number of off-Broadway plays including a biographical play about the early life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Orange titled MGM wrappers dated November 18 1971 noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 7852 stamped copy No. 61 with credit for screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with light foxing to the page edges bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1988réf. 169970Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1988. First Draft script for Season 1 Episode 4 of the 1989 television series. A spinoff of the 1985-1988 television series "Spenser: For Hire" which was based in turn on Robert B. Parker's long-running detective novel series. In this episode Hawk helps an old friend a defense attorney who has taken on a seemingly hopeless murder case. Originally aired on February 18 1989 on ABC. Shot on location in Washington DC. Red titled wrappers dated December 23 1988 and noted as First Draft on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 23 1988 noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1993réf. 170168Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1993. Revised Final Draft script for the 1994 film. Loosely based on a 1976 "New Yorker" article by Roger Angell about a baseball scout who discovers a promising new player and successfully negotiates his signing with the Yankees only to realize that the man is emotionally stunted after years of childhood abuse. Shot on location in Zempoala and Veracruz in Mexico in Bracken County Kentucky and in New York. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 12/5/93 noted as FINAL DRAFT and Revised. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/20/93 and 3/15/94. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
réf. 170395East Hampton NY: Vogel Bindery 2009. Shooting script for the 2009 film. Presentation copy on thick high-quality stock with a tipped-in color photograph of Robin Williams in character SIGNED "All my best / Robin Williams." In a decorative red cloth binding with titles and design in stamped gilt on the front board and spine the front board depicting the mascot from the film's high school "The Fighting Pugs." Page edges gilt yellow endpapers and with a credit for the Vogel bindery in East Hampton NY at the bottom of the last page of narrative text. Laid in is a form letter and a self-addressed stamped envelope never used confirming that the book is a donation for charity. Bob Goldthwait's masterpiece a brave deep-black comedy-drama that embraces both humanity and satire with no regard whatsoever for who is going to like it. One of the most underrated and ambitious films of the 2000s. Shot on location in Seattle. Red titled boards noted as Shooting Script on the title page undated with a screenwriter credit for Goldthwait and a WGA number at the bottom left corner. 64 leaves rectos and versos with last page of text numbered 121. Lithographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages in Fine condition faint oxidization to the boards else Fine unread. Vogel Bindery unknown books
1970réf. 147294N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in English. A wealthy British woman's orderly life is disrupted by her sudden marriage to a handsome unstable Sicilian man. As their relationship begins to degrade the woman suspects the marriage may have been one of convenience for her boorish new husband leading her to take violent and drastic measures to persuade him to change his misogynistic ways. Screenwriters Cesare Frugoni and Tonino Cervi were best known for their collaborations in Italian film in the late 20th century including "La nottata" 1975 "Chi dice donna dice donna" 1976 "Nest of Vipers" 1978 and "L'avaro" 1990. Set in London and rural England. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Cesare FRUGONI and Tonino CERVI. 210 leaves with last page of text numbered 207. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. N.p. unknown books
1966réf. 148322N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage French lobby card from the 1966 film. Revered as one of the masterpieces of cinema Robert Bresson follows a donkey Balthazar through his life as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creasing to corners. Criterion Collection 297. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. N.p. unknown books
1992réf. 150013Atlanta GA: Sander/Moses 1992. Revised Shooting script for the 1993 television film here under the working title "Stolen Children" originally aired on March 25 on Lifetime Network. A dramatization of the true story of the Tennessee Children's Home Society an adoption agency which secretly operated as a black market baby trafficking ring in the early 20th century overseen by elusive socialite Georgia Tann Mary Tyler Moore. Set in Tennessee and shot on location in Macon Georgia. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated November 23 1992 noted as Revised White Shooting Script with credits for screenwriter Sharon Elizabeth Doyle. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/27/92 and 12/17/92. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. Sander/Moses unknown books
1993réf. 149995N.p.: N.p. 1993. Draft script for the 1994 film. A political thriller set during the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China wherein a British assassin is tasked with killing several prominent Chinese government officials. Set in Hong Kong shot on location in Hong Kong and the Philippines. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated June 2 1993 with credits for screenwriter Randall Fontana. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1973réf. 170384N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1973 film showing actress Monique van de Ven topless. Annotations in manuscript ink to the verso. Based on Jan Wolkers' 1969 novel. A gifted but poor sculptor marries a beautiful wealthy young woman but their relationship is tumultuous and soon sours. Director Paul Verhoeven's second feature film the screen debuts of both Rutger Hauer and van de Ven and the most successful release in the history of Dutch cinema. Set and shot on location in Noord-Holland and Rotterdam Netherlands. 9.75 x 12 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1988réf. 170390Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1988. Three vintage borderless reference photographs and a folded program for the 1988 Japanese film. Text in Japanese. A modern sexually explicit take on the Cinderella story about a young woman who discovers a pair of red shoes that give her luck and unstoppable sexual prowess. Photographs 4.25 x 6 inches. Fine. Program approximately 28 x 7 inches folded four times and measuring 5 x 7 inches folded. Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
1969réf. 170392N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Marguerite Duras and actor Michael Lonsdale during filming on location. Stamp of photographer Michel Lioret on the verso. Based on the 1969 novel by Duras a dark psychological drama about four visitors to a rural French hotel. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1967réf. 170387N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actor Marlon Brando on the set with a camera crew in the background. Charlie Chaplin's final film as a director and his only color film viewed by many including Andrew Sarris and François Truffaut as being equal to his best silent work. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1931réf. 170382Paris: Les Films Osso 1931. Vintage lobby card for the 1931 French film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1980 novel by Gaston Leroux. Featuring set designs by Russian art director Pierre Schild who worked on a number of notable films throughout the 1930s and 1940s including "L'Age d'Or" 1930. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with some light soil and wear to the margins. Les Films Osso unknown books
