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1972réf. 171235Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Rehearsal Draft script for the 1972 film. Production memo laid in with the script noting changes to shooting location for two scenes. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1964 play by Paul Zindel about an eccentric middle-aged mother struggling to raise her two daughters. Starring director Paul Newman's wife Joanne Woodward and one of their real-life daughters Nell Potts as Beatrice and Matilda respectively. Winner of Best Actress at Cannes for Woodward. Shot on location in Bridgeport Connecticut. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 14 1972 noted as Rehearsal Draft with credit for screenwriter Alvin Sargent. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Good wrapper Good with dampstaining affecting the last 50 leaves and rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1980réf. 171010N.p.: N.p. 1980. Vintage reference photograph from the 1980 neo-noir film showing Debbie Harry and Everett McGill. Based on 1937 Cornell Woolrich story "Union City: The Corpse Next Door" about a married accountant who kills a vagrant in an obsessive fury. An early screen appearance by Harry preceding her better-known roles in "Videodrome" 1983 and "Hairspray" 1988. All photos 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1980réf. 146434Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1980. Revised Final Draft for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper. One of Steve Martin's earliest and most bizarre critical successes and along with "The Singing Detective" 1986 the work for which the late Dennis Potter is best remembered. Potter's trademark dark sensibilities permeate the film's mood punctuated by wildly complex choreographed musical numbers. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set in Illinois. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 27 dated October 22 1980 with credits for director Herbert D. Ross and screenwriter Dennis Potter. Title page present dated 10/22/80 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Dennis Potter. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1981réf. 171003N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film showing director James Ivory talking with Isabelle Adjani on the set. Mimeo label affixed to the verso. Based on the 1928 Jean Rhys novel about a young woman who falls in with a group of decadent Parisians after falling into sudden poverty. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and winner of Best Actress at Cannes for Adjani. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1977réf. 171038N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film showing André Dussollier and Anémone covered in wires. A slapstick satire of modernism and government control about a French couple who are chosen by the Ministry of the Future to be the country's "model couple" and used as test subjects for the creation of a new updated city by the year 2000. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus moderately toned. N.p. unknown
1969réf. 171039N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Alfred Hitchcock sitting in his director's chair on the tarmac at the Paris airport Orly Val-de-Marne France. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Leon Uris about a French agent who helps the United States uncover the presence of Russian missiles in Cuba. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1968réf. 171040N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Dalton Trumbo on the set of the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud. A poor Jewish man assumes the identity of a gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken prejudiced man. When the man is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Nominated for an Academy Award for Alan Bates. Set in Czarist Russia shot on location in Hungary 9 x 7 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1970réf. 171299N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film one showing actress Ann-Margret and the other showing her on the set with director Stanley Kramer and actor Anthony Quinn. A liberal-minded college professor at a west coast university is appointed president of the school after a group of radical student activists compel the former president to resign. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972réf. 171323Aurora: CVD Studios 1972. Final script for the 1973 Western comedy film. Working copy belonging to actor Lee Meriwether with her first name in manuscript ink to the top right corner of the front wrapper and her annotations on several script leaves marking dialogue. With three leaves relating to credits laid into the front of the script and a hand-drawn get-well card laid into the script's rear. Lee Meriwether is best remembered today for her performance as Catwoman in "Batman: The Movie" 1966 and for her recurring performance as Betty Jones in the 1970s crime television series "Barnaby Jones." She also made significant appearances in nearly 200 television series notably "Dr. Kildare" 1965 "The Time Tunnel" 1967 "Star Trek" 1969 and "Mission: Impossible" 1970. She also appeared in nearly three dozen feature films including "Angel in My Pocket" 1969 and "The Undefeated" 1969. Two brothers ride into a Colorado mining town searching for a quick buck only to discover the mines rich in molybdenum. Lee Meriwether is best remembered today for her performance as Catwoman in "Batman: The Movie" 1966 and for her recurring performance as Betty Jones in the 1970s crime television series "Barnaby Jones." Shot on location in Cañon City Colorado. Generic blue CVD Studios wrappers. Title page present noted as Final dated September 21 1972 with credit for screenwriter Marion Hargrove. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated September 29 1972. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. CVD Studios unknown
1973réf. 170446Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1973. Collection of 18 vintage reference photographs from the 1975 film including 17 bordered photographs and one borderless double weight photograph. Eight with mimeo snipes on the verso. A very nearly experimental Western made by Sam Peckinpah at his peak sufficiently strange to have remained of interest only to the most intense fans of Western revisionism. Comparable only to "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" 1971 and "The Shooting" 1966 in terms of sheer impressionism being laid upon the genre with iconic imagery and super-stylization in every frame. Shot on location in Durango Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus or better. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1984réf. 170425N.p.: Cinesthesia Productions 1984. Seven vintage photographs from the 1984 film including six studio stills and one reference photograph. One with a production company label on the verso and five with provenance labels to same. Director Jim Jarmusch's first effort "Permanent Vacation" 1980 was his final thesis at New York University's film school. As with the earliest films of Jean-Pierre Melville and David Lynch he then spent four years making "Stranger than Paradise" shooting as money allowed. The resulting film was the stunning breakthrough of an auteur who both understood his masters and paved the way for a new kind of cinema. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine to Fine one with annotations in manuscript pencil to the margins. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 400. Rosenbaum 1000. Cinesthesia Productions unknown
1960réf. 166216London: Weyland Film Productions 1960. Draft script for the 1961 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations throughout and rough pencil sketches on the versos of four pages. Seven pages with paste-ups of goldenrod revision pages with many pages cut horizontally separating scenes and many pages creased vertically as is common with working scripts. Provenance available upon request. Laid in are 43 carbon typescript leaves detailing construction costs dating from August 1960 through January 1961 a carbon typescript copy set list a carbon typescript copy construction staff requirements page a penciled layout of an October 31 to December 2 Shop Building and Shooting Stage schedule and staff requirements and a pencil layout of an Art Department construction form. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1954 novel by Michael Croft. Max Bygraves stars as an idealistic teacher fresh from training college who begins work at a tough East London secondary school of badly-behaved impoverished students and fellow teachers who believe corporal punishment is the most effective way of controlling the students. Shot on location in Clarendon Crescent and Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School in London. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British fasion. Title page present dated 24th October 1960 with credits for screenwriter John Cresswell and author Michael Croft. 162 leaves with last page of text numbered 153. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 3.11.60 and undated and undated goldenrod revision paste-ups on seven pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Weyland Film Productions unknown
1959réf. 166066London: Beaconsfield Films 1959. Draft script for the 1959 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes prop requirements and original set drawings as well as a three-page Unit List three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge Thomas MItchell hears a case of a 15 year-old girl Pauline Hehn caught with a 47 year-old man and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman Muriel Box and based on a play by a woman Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall. Beaconsfield Films unknown
1956réf. 166264London: London Independent Producers 1956. Third Draft script for the 1957 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the titled label on the front wrapper with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout including rough pencil prop and set sketches on the versos of eight pages. Here under the working title "A Novel Affair" which was used as the title for the US release of the film. Laid in are over 30 production documents including: 17 pages of handwritten Prop Lists eleven dated from May to July 1956. Two pages of rough pencil sketches including several story boards with two film clippings attached by paperclip each containing 3 full frames. Three letters to Provis two autograph letters signed dating from May and June 1956 and one typed letter signed from February 1956. As well as Shooting Schedules Set Lists Locations lists and additional Prop Lists. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Novelist Judith Wynter Margaret Leighton gets inspiration for her new novel when her wheelchair-bound husband Ralph Richardson hires a new Italian chauffeur CarloCarlo Giustini. When Carlo reads her lurid tale of adultery and murder the husband mistakenly concludes that she is actually madly in love with Carlo. Green generic file wrappers with a title label noted as 3rd Draft Screenplay on the title label dated 23-4-1956. Title page present noted as Third Draft of Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Muriel and Sydney Box. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. London Independent Producers unknown
1999réf. 167772N.p.: N.p. 1999. Two draft scripts for an unproduced film. One script preceded by a two-page treatment. Included with the scripts are a typed note dated 13 May 1999 from a Lisa Jones to screenwriter Mark Jacobson providing advice on the script along with a return note from Jacobson to Jones acknowledging her letter. Additionally included is a printed six-page script breakdown presumably created by Jacobson. In the late 1950s a college student dies in a car accident. After his death his soul is mistakenly placed in the body of a two-year-old although he retains his adult brain and he is sent to live with a beautiful young woman. Stamped script: Beige wrappers with the stamp of screenwriter Mark Jacobson on the front wrapper along with a phone number in manuscript pencil. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Non-stamped script: Green untitled front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page integral with the first page of text. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975réf. 166618N.p.: N.p. 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 film here under the working title "Invitation to Death." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout amending dialog and underlining his character "Steve." Bound in following the script are two pages of extensive handwritten notes in pencil elaborating on the actions and motivations of the character "Steve" in specific scenes likely written by screenwriter and director Howard Avedis. Laid in is a 24 page schedule with manuscript pencil annotations underlining the character "Steve" throughout with the manuscript marker annotation of Dimitri's name along the top edge of the first leaf. Connie Stevens stars as a sexy and horny federal narcotics agent who goes undercover to investigate heroin smuggler Cesare Danova. Director and screenwriter Howard Avedis' exploitation take on William Fiedkin's 1971 classic "The French Connection" with a female cop in the lead including an outrageous chase scene involving Ms. Stevens in a dunebuggy. A cult classic. Set in and shot on location in Seattle King County and Kirkland Washington and Portland Oregon. Burgundy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 6 1975 noted as Second Draft Revised with credits for screenwriter Hikmet Avedis. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1974réf. 168123N.p.: Golden Films 1974. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film seen here under the working title "Evil in the Deep." A crew of maritime adventurers search for a long-lost sunken Spanish Galleon carrying a massive amount of treasure. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Golden Films unknown
1978réf. 167893Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. An aging newspaper reporter falls in love with his neighbor a beautiful but sickly ballerina. Anne Ditchburn who had no prior acting experience was chosen from a pool of 400 applicants for the part. A dancer and choreographer she choreographed some of her own routines in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus one Very Good. United Artists unknown
1945réf. 161348N.p.: N.p. 1945. Draft script for the 1945 film seen here under the working title "This Love of Ours." Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Twelve reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script leaves. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on Roger Butterfield's 1944 book detailing the heroic actions of US Marine Al Schmid during World War II and his rehabilitation after being blinded in battle. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Philadelphia and San Diego. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present undated with credits for Wald director Delmer Daves screenwriter Albert Maltz and biographer Roger Butterfield. 190 leaves with last page of text numbered 159. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/8/44 and 2/21/45. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with moderate wear on the leather and front board lightly soiled. N.p. unknown
1983réf. 167890Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1983. Eight vintage publicity photographs from the 1983 film including two compilation photographs. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos of seven photographs. Based on Erich Segal's 1980 novel about a family man confronted with an illegitimate child from a long-since-past affair. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1988réf. 167910Los Angeles: Cannon Group 1988. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1988 film including one photograph of director Andrei Konchalovsky on the set. A urbanite reporter takes her daughter who is secretly addicted to cocaine with her on a work trip to visit a distant branch of her family in the Louisiana bayou. Winner of the Best Actress Award at Cannes for Barbara Hershey. Shot on location in Lafayette and Catahoula Parish Louisiana and in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Cannon Group unknown
1982réf. 156076Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1982. Five vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1981 French film. Based on the 1979 novel by Daniel Odier writing under the pseudonym Delacora. A stylish and influential French thriller wherein a young postman and opera enthusiast inadvertently becomes entangled with the mob and the police after a woman slips a cassette that fingers a corrupt police chief into his bag. Set and shot on location in Paris France. 8 x 10 inches. One with a small chip and tape shadow at the bottom right corner else Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1965réf. 166115London: Gibraltar Productions 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil sketch of settings and a set. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the BBC-TV play "The Obi" by Jon Manchip White. At an interracial college in a small British town small glass bottles filled with graveyard dirt and feathers obis sent as Obeah voodoo curses to students and faculty precede a series of voodoo killings on campus. Re-released in 1973 as the television movie "Exorcism at Midnight" following the success of "The Exorcist" with new color sequences with an American cast which re-framed the original black and white film as a flashback. Tall tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 28.5.1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Stanley Goulder and playwright Jon Manchip White. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated goldenrod revision clippings and pages pasted in throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a black plastic comb-binding. Gibraltar Productions unknown
1972réf. 168139Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Two vintage studio still photographs taken on the set of the 1974 film one showing director Richard Rush and actor James Caan the other showing Caan with motorcycle stunt instructor Mike Bast. A blueprint for the buddy cop movie about two inept police officers portrayed with wonderful chemistry by Alan Arkin and James Caan who wreak utter mayhem and destruction while trying to bring down a local mob boss. Director Richard Rush's ludicrous politically incorrect black comedy satirizing the popular revenge and police action films of the period. Set and shot on location in San Francisco California. 7.5 x 10 inches. Warner Brothers unknown
1983réf. 167921N.p.: Titan Productions 1983. Ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1983 film. The eighth film in the Pink Panther series and the second film in the series after actor Peter Sellers' death. David Niven's final film appearance. Shot on location in New York Nice Valencia and Ibiza. 8 x 10 inches. One photo with an annotation in manuscript ink on the bottom recto margin else about Fine. Titan Productions unknown
