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1960rif. 144617Paris: N.p. 1960. Two original borderless single weight press photographs of starring actors Giani Espositio and Pascale Petit at a screemomg presumably the premiere of the 1960 French film. Costar Nelly Borgeaud is also seen in one photo. Based on Alleins' novel "L'étrangère dans les portes" 1954. Catherine Petit marries a wealthy landowner Esposito in Africa where she also meets a mystic who influences her spiritual beliefs as does a Catholic priest. Petit and Esposito were eventually married and collaborated on "Cross of the Living" 1962. 7 x 9.25 inches one slightly longer. Very Good plus faint indentations to one the other with two horizontal creases. N.p. unknown books
1969rif. 144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With manuscript annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. 13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1956rif. 144496Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and Ingrid Bergman on the set of the 1956 French film. Agency stamps on the verso. A romantic-comedy set in 1890 Paris starring Ingrid Bergman as Elena Sokorowskaa Polish princess who has a reputation for bringing good luck to her lovers. While scheduled to be married to a wealthy family friend with plans to bring new money to the family's dwindling fortune she meets Count de Chevincourt Mel Ferrer the aide to General Rollan Jean Marais. Both men are taken by her charm and find themselves in a romantic knot with repercussions for all of France. Shot on location in and around Paris. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine with single bottom margin. 244 Criterion Collection. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Warner Brothers unknown books
1959rif. 144588Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies most with 12 images per print amounting to over 1000 images captured nearly all images with series number etched in the original film negative before development and credits at the top for photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Ulysse film title and photographer Apoteker housed in an oblong 2-ring paper binder with printed French titles on the front. Laid in is a small piece of graph paper addressed "Cher Christian" presumably filmmaker Christian-Jaque with brief slightly illegible note in French in manuscript ink. The remaining 273 photographs are single photos with similar etched series numbers mounted with cello tape on thick stock in two quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrapper printed French titles affixed to the front wrapper of one. Small "x" annotations in manuscript ink on several pages. All three keybooks capture the film and photographer Apoteker's sense of desperation in composed and candid moments. Michele Morgan and Gil Vidal dominate the imagery hamming for the camera and in action scenes with Vidal emerging from a car crash and rarely without a glass in-hand and stunning images of Morgan hula-hooping off-set and in several placid studio portraits. Catherine Morgan is an alcoholic lawyer who enlists the help of reporter Walter Vidal to spy on a nefarious wine supplier who may have contributed to the killing of a young man's father. Morgan dominated French cinema for decades and even won the Best Actress Award at the first Cannes festival 1946. Photographer Apoteker's debut film followed by successful crime noirs notably "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and later worked on "Love and Death" 1975 and the futuristic "cinema du look" film "Le prix du danger" 1983. Fourth film of noted costume designer Autré whose other credits include "Love on a Pillow" 1962 "Contempt" 1963 "Lost Command" 1966 and "The Game is Over" 1966. Notebook photos 3.75 x 5 inches most pages with four mounted photos keybook photos to 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with light foxing and curling and rubbing to the studio keybook a few photos with small edge tears. Ulysse Production / Cinedis unknown books
1968rif. 144349N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With mimeo snipe on one and manuscript annotations on the other. From the last scene of the film featuring "Eve Democracy" a graffiti artist played by Anne Wiazemsky who is followed by a film crew on the beach as she totes a rifle dressed in all white. "One Plus One" alternates documentary segments of The Rolling Stones creating the song "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio during the band's last days with Brian Jones with surreal commentary about anarchy and revolution making references to Amiri Baraka Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panthers pornography "Mein Kampf" and the Nazi movement. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1959rif. 144629Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films notably "The Night Affair" 1958 "The Counterfeiters of Paris" 1961 "Speaking of Murder" 1957 and "Maigret Sees Red" 1963 as did photographer Dole who was consistent if anything a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling discoloration. Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis unknown books
1968rif. 144528Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo and starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm. Set in the era of Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary 8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1957rif. 144612Paris: N.p. 1957. Two original single weight black-and-white press photographs from an anniversary showing of the 1937 French film circa 1957. Director Renoir is seen with actress Mylene Demongeot and an image of a neighboring Champs-Elysees drugstore. Renoir's film about soldiers during WWI is widely regarded as a masterpiece and one of Orson Welles' favorite films. 5 x 7 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1972rif. 144229N.p.: Gloria Films 1972. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1972 film showing Richard Burton and Raquel Welch in an eerie moment before a kiss. With manuscript annotations in black marker and pencil and three press agency stamps on the verso. Another addition to the many renditions of the Bluebeard tale in which the wealthy Baron von Sepper Richard Burton repeatedly murders and stores the bodies of his dead wives. This time his spouse and potential victim is Anne Joey Heatherton an American woman who must find a way to save herself after finding a freezer full of women in his castle. Shot on location in Budapest Hungary and Rome Italy. 10.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Gloria Films unknown books
1987rif. 144497Paris: Gaumont 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres twisting together a broad range of references to literature film comedy and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker thus blurring the fictional category from the outset. Made the same year as Godard's production of "King Lear." 12 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 327. Gaumont unknown books
1957rif. 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
1955rif. 144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Archive of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in manuscript ink inside a small white border on the recto and all numbered in mimeograph on the verso. One notebook full of photos crediting photographer Beauvarlet on the rectos. Director Rene's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. Winner of two important French film awards the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Prix Melies. Screened out-of-competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Still photographer Beauvarlet remains uncredited for the film perhaps overshadowed by the film's prolific cinematographer Robert Lefebvre. Beauvarlet stuck close to Bardot throughout her career snapping stills in "Her Bridal Night" 1956 "Naughty Girl" 1956 "La Parisienne" 1957 and "The Night Heaven Fell" 1958. His quick-draw style is amply captured here in candid images of the cast and crew a jovial celebrity signing and softer posed studio portraits. Armand Philipe is a lieutenant in the French cavalry just before WWI a notorious womanizer and gambler who bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers. The woman is Marie-Louise Morgan a divorcee who runs a milliner's shop and who is also being courted by Victor Desailly. A subplot involving Armand's friend Felix Yves Robert and Lucie Bardot a photographer's daughter. Photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Very Good overall several with bruises from offsetting paste several are loose. Cinedis unknown books
1970rif. 144319Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless still photograph of Ali MacGraw Ryan O'Neal and Arthur Hiller on the set of the 1970 film. With typed identifying description manuscript annotations regarding layout and press agency stamps on the verso. Based on screenwriter Erich Segal's novel of the same name. Oliver Barrett IV Ryan O'Neal a wealthy Harvard Law student and Jennifer Cavilleri Ali MacGraw a working class music student fall in love despite their class differences. As their love grows into a serious relationship and eventually marriage they face the disapproval of the Oliver's father despite Jenny's attempts to find common ground. Winner of the 1971 Academy Award for Best Original Score and nominated for six others. Shot on location in California New York China Massachusetts and England. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1956rif. 140198Strasbourg France: Jean Jungmann 1956. Archive of 38 vintage black-and-white press photographs of actress Francoise Arnoul at a release party for the 1956 French-Italian film at the Cinema des Arcades. All photos with annotations on the verso in manuscript pencil. Photographed by Jean Jungmann and developed in his Strasbourg photography store Portrait d'Art with his imprint in the lower right of the photos and all inside an original envelope from the story. Arnoul is seen signing autographs gracefully smoking a cigarette and accepting flowers on stage as well as cavorting with costars of the film including French-Armenian director Verneuil. Fracoise Arnoul is a hotel employee smitten with a valet named Gerard Risso and may or may not be related to wealthy businessman Henri Boyer Gerard's boss. Arnoul's last collaboration with director Verneuil the others being "Forbidden Fruit" 1952 "The Sheep Has Five Legs" 1954 "The Lovers of Lisbon" 1955 and "People of No importance" 1956. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall with moderate curling. Envelope Good. Jean Jungmann unknown books
1970rif. 144248Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Stella Stevens and Jason Robards taking direction from Sam Peckinpah on the set. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. A charming surreal revisionist Western comedy an unusual move for Peckinpah as it was released on the heels of "The Wild Bunch" 1969 and just prior to "Straw Dogs" 1971 both famed for being the high spots of the director's famed odes to violence and male madness. Certainly though Jason Robards-in what many consider to be his finest performance-is as lost as any of Peckinpah's characters but viewed from a different more relaxed perspective. Set in Arizona shot on location in Nevada Arizona and New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1955rif. 142718Hollywood: DuMont Television Network 1955. Draft script for Season One episode 25 of the 1954-1955 television series originally broadcast on March 8 1955 on the DuMont Television Network. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas who played Val in the episode with her manuscript name in ink on the front wrapper and her lines circled in manuscript ink throughout shooting schedule laid in. Circus drama involving a brother and sister aerial act and their new partner. "Studio 57" also known as "Heinz Studio 57" was an American anthology series broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to July 1955 and in syndication from 1955 to 1958. Notably "It's a Small World" the pilot episode for the iconic series "Leave It to Beaver" was broadcast on the show on April 23 1957. White titled self wrappers production No. 1324 with credits for screenwriter James Gunn and story by Nancy Moore. Title page integral with front wrapper. 38 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with single staple. DuMont Television Network unknown books
1962rif. 143952Paris: Films Polski 1962. Collection of eight vintage French photographs from the 1962 Polish film. Starring actors and images of the sailboat are seen including a few candid moments and a full-length portrait of actor Anna Ciepielewska. Nearly all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Also included is an original French language press packet for the film detailing synopsis and star biographies. Housed in a white envelope with annotations in manuscript ink including French film title and a "Pictorial Service" rubber-stamp. Polanski's directorial debut and his only Polish language film. A couple on a sailing trip picks up a hitchhiker just for kicks. The sexual tension mounts in dramatic film noir fashion. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Seven photos 5 x 7 inches borderless. Ciepieleska photo 7 x 9.25 inches. Envelope 10 x 12.5 inches. Press packet ditto-style mimeograph on white stock five leaves corner-stapled. Photos and packet Near Fine envelope Very Good overall. Criterion Collection 215. Grant France. Films Polski unknown books
1960rif. 144600Rome: Riama Film 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the verso. Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with Mastroianni a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of the Palme d'Or at The Cannes Film Festival and The Academy Award for Best Costume. Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Riama Film unknown books
rif. 143465Tokyo: Shochiku Films 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film dated May 28 1990 about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts leading up to the bomb. Kurosawa's response was simple: he wanted his film to say that war was between governments not people. Richard Gere plays one of the family's Asian-American cousins a decision falling somewhere between stunt casting and commentary. Set in Nagasaki and shot on location there. Blue titled wrappers dated 5.28.1990. Title page present. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Shochiku Films unknown books
1985rif. 144247Universal City: Universal Pictures 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of director Terry Gilliam on the set of the 1985 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Gilliam's masterpiece about a man trying to escape a bureaucratic authoritarian government in a dystopian future. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 51. Universal Pictures unknown books
1978rif. 144593Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of the 1978 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Herman Herman Dirk Bograde a Russian immigrant and Jewish business owner in Berlin is targeted by Nazis. While slowly losing his mind he fixates on a man he believes to be his doppelganger. After taking out a new life insurance policy he devises a plan to free himself of his problems. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Germany. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Bavaria Atelier unknown books
1915rif. 144596France: Le Film d'Art 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film struck from the original negative circa 1936. With manuscript annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself a dog and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special effects that mimic an altered state of consciousness. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Le Film d'Art unknown books
1965rif. 144183Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Vintage photograph of star Natalie Wood in bed and surrounded by members of the crew on the set of the 1965 film. A superb example of what lies beyond the fourth wall mixing the intimate with the technical. Mimeo snipe and manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on a 1963 novel of the same name by Gavin Lambert. Daisy Clover is a young girl seen as a tomboy who lives with her mother in Santa Monica. She submits an audition tape to a Hollywood studio and is picked up and made a star at the cost of the dramatic life of Hollywood fame. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Manuscript ink annotations in the margins and light creasing in the bottom corner. Warner Brothers unknown books
1955rif. 144737Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge played by Morris Ankrum with Prescott's manuscript annotations at the inclusion of his dialogue and appearances. George Sanders plays a wealthy hated businessman who has conned his way to the top and as the film begins has been found murdered. We see his life in a series of flashbacks as it is told to the police by his secretary and fellow con artist Yvonne DeCarlo. One of only two films in which Saunders and his real-life brother Tom Conway also play brothers onscreen. Shot on location in New York City and California. Tan titled wrappers noted as 2ND REVISION on the front wrapper copy No. 54 dated December 29 1955 with credits for producer Charles Martin. Title page present dated December 29 1955 noted as 2ND REVISE with credits for screenwriter/producer Martin. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 190. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1959rif. 144110Paris: Cinedis 1959. Collection of 269 vintage black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film. The collection consists of two unique and complimentary pieces one being a film still keybook with 68 contact prints of small format negatives most with 12 images per print amounting to over 800 images captured. Nearly all images with series number bordering the image and credits at the top for photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Cinedis film title and photographer Rosselle housed in a 2-ring paper binder with original French titles. The other piece is nearly 170 smaller photographs elegantly presented mounted with cello tape on thick stock in a "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Series numbers and small "x" annotations in manuscript ink on the pages several with small white borders and several with series number on the verso in manuscript pencil. Photos without borders also have series number at the edges etched in the original film negative before photo development as on the keybook prints. Nearly all photographs have numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos a few smaller photographs have rubber-stamps on the versos crediting Richard Pierre film titles director Bastia and costars Alfred Adam and Noel Roquevart. Also included are 27 loose photographs a few with rubber-stamps on the verso crediting starring actors and French film titles and a small press packet from Cinedis detailing film credits synopsis and star biographies. Starring actors Richard and Pierre are amply represented in the collection and seen in nearly every image mostly in their official uniforms. Actress Zuber is equally present in striking high-contrast images cuddling bunnies fishing at a river and wielding a rifle. The notebook depicts images seen in the film while the keybook depicts on-the-set sequences test shots candid moments and images of the crew; the loose photos show both candid and action shots. An expansive perspective of a little seen comedy about a gendarme who travels to a small town looking for a disappeared woman a town known for its distrust of police officers. Director Bastia was an assistant director in the 1940s and 1950s when he worked almost exclusively with director Jean Boyer until his debut with "Nous autres à Champignol" 1957 the first in this series involving gendarmes and Champignol followed by this film and finally "The Boss of Champignol" 1966. Photographs in large quarto notebook 3.5 x 4.75 inches keybook contact prints 8.25 x 10.5 inches 2-hole punched several trimmed and loose photos range from 4.75 x 6.75 inches to 7 x 9.25 inches. Photographs about Near Fine with light curling a handful with short creases press packet Near Fine notebook Near Fine and binder Very Good. Cinedis unknown books
