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1977Best.-Nr. 152290N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. A class of predominantly Black students at Howard University College of Medicine share a variety of humorous sentimental and unusual experiences in their time at the school. Jefferson previously worked as a screenwriter for "Disco 9000" 1977 and "Death Drug" 1978. Set in Washington DC. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Roland S. Jefferson and story credits to Jefferson and Eric P. Jones. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/16/77 and 4/20/77. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 148092Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of Anne Jackson and Sudie Bond from the 1967 film. Based on Murray Schisgal's 1963 play "The Tiger." Lonely frustrated and alienated mailman Ben Harris Eli Wallach decides he has had enough and set to get a girl Anne Jackson the only way he can by kidnapping her. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 148047North Hollywood: Republic Pictures 1937. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1937 film here under the working title "It Might Happen to You" three of Elsa Janssen and Christian Rub. Mimeo snipes on the verso. Max Barrett known to everyone as "Pa" owns a candy store in New York East side neighborhood of immigrants and raises two boys Fred an aspiring lawyer and orphan Bob Ames who begins dabbling in a life of crime. Screenplay written by author Nathanael West and black-listed screenwriter Samuel Ornitz. Set in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. One Near Fine with light edgewear One Very Good plus with chip in lower right corner and small closed tear in left margin Two Good each with large chip in right corner. Republic Pictures unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 149639Paris: Nouvelles editions de films 1967. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the set of the 1967 film. The first photograph shows Louis Malle and Jean-Paul Belmondo who is in costume conferring on the set. With the stamp of photographer Vincent Rossel and the name of the film as well as manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. The second photograph shows director Louis Malle standing with his back to the camera and other crew members at work on a rooftop in preparation for a scene. A few penciled annotations on the verso. Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Nouvelles editions de films unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 148045Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. Promotional headshot of Dean Jagger as Admiral Fitch. Mimeo snipe and "Silver Screen Archives" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1959 Broadway play "The Golden Fleecing" by Lorenzo Semple Jr. Scientist Jason Eldridge Jim Hutton teams up with Lt. Ferguson Howard Steve McQueen and Lt. Beauregard Gilliam Jack Mullaney to use a US Navy computer to break the bank at the Venice Casino until Admiral Fitch Jagger threatens to thwart the plan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 149672Paris: Madeleine Films 1966. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1966 film showing director Agnes Varda in conversation with actors Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli. With the stamp of Madeleine Films on the verso. A writer and his pregnant wife move to a remote island off the coast of France following a car accident that has rendered the wife mute. The writer begins to plan his next novel using the local islanders as inspiration but the locals are distrustful of the reclusive couple and tensions heighten as the line between reality and fiction begins to melt together. Agnes Varda an important and influential French director writer and artist garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. Set and shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Madeleine Films unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 147881Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1950. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1950 Western film one of actor Howard Da Silva. In 1869 the government hires a former boxer as an undercover agent to infiltrate and stop the gangs that have been terrorizing the railroad mail service. Set in Wyoming. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 5036. Universal Pictures unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 148088Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Vintage studio still photograph of Anne Jackson from the 1968 film. Victoria Layton Jackson poses as a call girl for "The Movie Star" Walter Matthew to prove to her husband Patrick O'Neal the movie star's agent that she still has sex appeal and to rekindle their marriage. Set in and shot on location in New Canaan Connecticut and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with irregular margins. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 149681Burbank CA: Walt Disney 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film showing sound effects specialists Jim McDonald "Rusty" Jones and Earl Hatch in the studio using a variety of instruments several appearing makeshift to create musical accompaniment for the film. A documentary following the everyday behaviors of the desert-dwelling animals of the southwestern US. The first feature-length film in Walt Disney Productions' "True-Life Adventures" film series which focused on animal behavior and zoology. Shot on location in Tucson Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Walt Disney unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 149688N.p.: N.p. 1974. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1974 British film. A young writer accepts a weekend invitation to visit her reclusive friend's country mansion unaware that her friend and the house itself hold a variety of dark secrets. Set and shot on location in England. 10 x 7.5 inches. Very Good lightly and evenly toned. N.p. unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 149689Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Linda Blair in front of the National Theatre in Westwood California where crowds have lined up to see "The Exorcist." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1971 novel by screenwriter William Peter Blatty. The first and finest film in the series following the demonic possession of a twelve year-old girl and the ensuing attempts to purge her body of the evil spirit. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic with a strangeness and depth supplied by the strength of Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow's performances. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 149687N.p.: N.p. 1988. Vintage reference photograph of actors Divine and Jerry Stiller from the 1988 film. Cult independent director John Waters' most enduring film following a kindhearted overweight teenager who becomes an overnight sensation on a Baltimore television dance show and subsequently uses her newfound fame to speak out in support of integration. Basis for the Tony Award winning 2002 musical and subsequent 2007 film adaptation directed by Adam Shankman and starring Nikki Blonsky Michelle Pfeiffer and John Travolta. Set and shot on location in Baltimore Maryland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 148075Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage studio still photograph of Craig Hill Elaine Edwards and Willis Bouchey from the 1961 film. Dr. Frank Harlow Hill flees to another town and changes his name after witnessing a murder of a detective taking up lodging in a remote home of the wheelchair boound Colonel Maitland Bouchey and his daughter Laurie Edwards. 8 x 10 inches. Small circle in manuscript ink over the name of Craig Hill on text in margin otherwise Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 146737N.p.: Ivan Tors Films 1964. Collection of 30 vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Zoologist Dr. Jim Hanlon Robert Culp unknowingly hires poacher Alec Burnett Harry Guardino as a guide in an attempt to capture two white rhinos. Burnett intending on selling the rhinos on the black market steals Hanlon's car and equipment. Burnett's girlfriend nurse Edith Arleigh Shirley Eaton is intent on making him see the error of his ways and reveals his location to Hanlon. When Hanlon saves Burnett's life after a cobra bite the two unite and capture the rhinos and join forces in animal research. Set in Africa shot on location in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Ivan Tors Films unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 148080Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Vintage studio still photograph of John Hodiak and Frank Korvac from the 1951 film. "7 AUG 27 51" stamp over blind stamp on the verso. John Sturges' deft adaptation of Eleazar Lipsky's 1950 novel is one of the best and most underrated courtroom-based noirs anchored by a performance by Spencer Tracy at the peak of his powers. Set in New York City shot on location in New York and California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. Selby US. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 147632Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1985. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1985 film. A delightfully crafted depression-era fantasy in which an unhappy wife indulges her knack for escapism through persistently visiting the cinema. Eventually a handsome character in one of the films she frequents breaks the fourth wall and what ensues is an unusual and fantastical romantic comedy. Shirking his usual self-deprecating style Woody Allen describes the 1985 film as one of only a few in which the results closely match his original intentions. Set in New Jersey shot on location. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 146808Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. Collection of 41 vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Based on the 1952 play by Liam O'Brien. Set in early 1900s Pennsylvania where a freethinking man Mr. Horace Pennypacker Clifton Webb turns out to secretly have had a second family with a total of 17 children between the two. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine light curling nearly half uniformly faded some faint creasing a few with small closed tears in margins. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 147636Universal City: Dino De Laurentiis Company 1976. Five vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film with bottom margins with text. Archival stamp on the verso. A brutal and exploitative revenge film about a fashion model Margaux Hemingway who is raped by her sister's music teacher Chris Sarandon who after being acquitted at trial returns to rape her sister Mariel Hemingway. Film debut of both Margaux and Mariel Hemingway. Anne Bancroft co-stars as the prosecuting lawyer. Set in California shot on location in Los Angeles and West Hollywood. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with some light edgewear. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Dino De Laurentiis Company unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 147638New York: Janus Films 1964. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. "The Troublemaker" was inspired by The Premise an improv group begun by Theodore J. Flicker in 1960 and starred all but one of the original members of the group George Segal. New Jersey chicken farmer Jack Armstrong Tom Aldredge moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house with the help of his friend lawyer T.R. Kingston Buck Henry. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near FIne. Janus Films unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 149693Universal City: Universal City Studios 1978. Vintage reference photograph from the 1978 film showing director John Landis on the set of the film's final scene in Joliet Prison wearing a "Joliet" baseball cap with the iconic painted motto reading "It's Never Too Late to Mend" visible in the background. With the stamp of National Film Archive on the verso. An energetic and enduring comedy classic originally conceived by John Belushi and Dan Akroyd in "Saturday Night Live" sketches featuring the eponymous main characters. The film set the record for the most cars destroyed in one film at the time of its release and features an all-star cast of musical guests and subtle cameos including jazz blues and soul greats Aretha Franklin Cab Calloway James Brown Ray Charles and Chaka Khan. The Blues Brothers Band who perform the soundtrack includes actual giants of the 1960s rhythm and blues era: Steve Cropper Donald "Duck" Dunn Murphy Dunne Willie "Too Big" Hall and Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Carrie Fisher Dan Akroyd's then-girlfriend also makes an unforgettable appearance as John Belushi's homicidal ex-girlfriend. Set in and around Chicago and shot there on location. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal City Studios unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 147639Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1978. Vintage studio still photograph of Buck Henry from the 1978 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso on Claire Harrison Associates Inc. letterhead and second mimeo snipe folded over bottom on Paramount Pictures letterhead. Warren Beatty stars as an NFL quarterback on his way to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. On his way to Heaven he is informed that he wasn't ready to die but that his body has been cremated. He must find a new body and luckily one turns up: that of a recently murdered millionaire. Nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Writing Best Cinematography and Best Music. A story set and shot in and around Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 148804Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1978 film. One of "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen's last disaster films his penultimate film as director following up on his success with "The Poseidon Adventure" 1972 and "The Towering Inferno" 1974 and featuring an enormous star-studded cast which included seven Academy Award winners Michael Caine Olivia de Havilland Ben Johnson Jose Ferrer Patty Duke Lee Grant and Henry Fonda. Based on the 1974 novel by Arthur Herzog III. A team of scientists join forces with the US military to try to stop the massive swarms of killer bees terrorizing the country. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in California and Texas. Green illustrated custom wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper dated AUGUST 1977 with credits for screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Title page present dated August 1977 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter Stirling Silliphang. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 149696London: Institute of Contemporary Arts 1969. Two vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1969 French film. With printed mimeo snipes for the film's British release affixed to the verso. A man and a woman meet to discuss the Vietnam War student protests the changing relationship between the US and France and other current events of the 1960s interspersed with news clips music and narration by director Jean-Luc Godard. 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Institute of Contemporary Arts unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 149708Paris: Sygma 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Sirpa Lane and Mathieu Carriere from the 1974 French film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso in French and English along with the stamps of Sigma Films a date stamp reading "25 NOV. 1974" and manuscript ink and pencil annotations. An adventurous young woman is determined to enjoy every sexual experience life has to offer even if the pursuit leads her into danger. 11.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a touch of ink bleed from an annotation to the verso near the right edge. Sygma unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 149704N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of actress Edith Scob-a haunting scene where a mentally ill girl sings in church-from the 1959 French film noir. Maître Gérane Jean Galland has his troublesome son François Jean-Pierre Mocky committed to a mental hospital. François soon makes friends with Heurtevent Charles Aznavour an innocent epileptic and both decide to attempt an escape. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Spicer France. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
