1936réf. 150710Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra by photographer Alfredo Valente to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente filing stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil dated "6-25-36" and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp all on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. Shot on location in Griffith Park Ojai Palms Springs Victorville and Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1938réf. 148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years. Set in New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1935réf. 150693N.p.: N.p. 1935. Three original photographs of Frank Capra and Gary Cooper on the set of the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one photograph referring to the film by its working title "Opera Hat" along with the stamp of photographer A.L. Schafer and one photograph with a date stamp reading April 20 1936 on the verso. The first photo shows Capra with the film script in hand standing next to a wall calendar that prominently reads "Friday December 13th" the day the film was announced. The second is a candid shot of Capra and Gary Cooper and the third is a candid photo of Capra standing in the balcony of one of the film's sets. A small town man discovers he is the sole beneficiary of his estranged and incredibly wealthy uncle's estate and must move to New York to claim his inheritance becoming a moving target for a number of scammers in the process. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. N.p. unknown books
1932réf. 160116Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film. During the Great Depression a bank owner's bank is robbed and his protégé an ex-con is the only suspect. His protégé can't reveal his alibi because one of his witnesses is having an affair he does not want revealed. Partially shot on location at Citizen's National Bank in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Poor with significant creasing on across the top middle of the photographs. Columbia Pictures unknown
1936réf. 150710Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra by photographer Alfredo Valente to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente filing stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil dated "6-25-36" and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp all on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. Shot on location in Griffith Park Ojai Palms Springs Victorville and Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1935réf. 150693N.p.: N.p. 1935. Three original photographs of Frank Capra and Gary Cooper on the set of the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one photograph referring to the film by its working title "Opera Hat" along with the stamp of photographer A.L. Schafer and one photograph with a date stamp reading April 20 1936 on the verso. The first photo shows Capra with the film script in hand standing next to a wall calendar that prominently reads "Friday December 13th" the day the film was announced. The second is a candid shot of Capra and Gary Cooper and the third is a candid photo of Capra standing in the balcony of one of the film's sets. A small town man discovers he is the sole beneficiary of his estranged and incredibly wealthy uncle's estate and must move to New York to claim his inheritance becoming a moving target for a number of scammers in the process. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. N.p. unknown
1939réf. 148444Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its accurate then and now depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional shallow egotists the film was also banned in fascist countries Germany Italy Spain and the USSR and later Nazi occupied France. Set in and shot on location in Washington DC. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with faint diagonal crease to lower right. Columbia Pictures unknown
1938réf. 148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years. Set in New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1942réf. 130849Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. Script is lacking front cover and some early pages. Rear cover is goldenrod. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated 3-23-42. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold pins. Hirschhorn p. 212. Warner Archive. Warner Brothers unknown books
1948réf. 135343Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1948. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1948 film noir. Rubber stamped "7" on the verso. Based on the 1946 novel by Theodore Strauss. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Republic Pictures unknown books
1942réf. 159171Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film. With mimeo snipe on the verso. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1931réf. 154507N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film showing actors Will Rogers and Fifi D'Orsay. A French singer helps an older serious-minded businessman loosen up but his sons decide to intervene afraid that she is taking advantage of his largesse. Set in Chicago. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1931réf. 135170Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1931. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1931 film. Based on the 1908 play "Father and the Boys" by George Ade. A comedy of errors in which a wealthy meatpacking company owner in Chicago has two sons both who treat their father's company as a means to their own extravagant ends. When he turns the tables evading his work responsibilities and traveling around with a French singer they fear that the singer is out to blackmail him. Pale blue studio wrappers dated April 27 1931 noting footage of 7000 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus condition. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1943réf. 153221Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1943 film showing the canteen audience with a camera crew capturing the shot in the foreground. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of RKO Radio Pictures. A musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1943réf. 157113Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Final script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his name on the front wrapper and his notations throughout. A propagandistic musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 42 dated November 25 1942 with credits for screenwriter Delmer Daves. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with the front wrapper. X leaves with last page of text numbered X. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/21/42 and 1/4/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1942réf. 159171Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film. With mimeo snipe on the verso. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1942réf. 130849Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. Script is lacking front cover and some early pages. Rear cover is goldenrod. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated 3-23-42. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold pins. Hirschhorn p. 212. Warner Archive. Warner Brothers unknown
1943réf. 157113Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Final script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his name on the front wrapper and his notations throughout. A propagandistic musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 42 dated November 25 1942 with credits for screenwriter Delmer Daves. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with the front wrapper. X leaves with last page of text numbered X. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/21/42 and 1/4/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1943réf. 153221Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1943 film showing the canteen audience with a camera crew capturing the shot in the foreground. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of RKO Radio Pictures. A musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1931réf. 154507N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film showing actors Will Rogers and Fifi D'Orsay. A French singer helps an older serious-minded businessman loosen up but his sons decide to intervene afraid that she is taking advantage of his largesse. Set in Chicago. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1931réf. 135170Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1931. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1931 film. Based on the 1908 play "Father and the Boys" by George Ade. A comedy of errors in which a wealthy meatpacking company owner in Chicago has two sons both who treat their father's company as a means to their own extravagant ends. When he turns the tables evading his work responsibilities and traveling around with a French singer they fear that the singer is out to blackmail him. Pale blue studio wrappers dated April 27 1931 noting footage of 7000 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus condition. Fox Film Corporation unknown
1966réf. 168496Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actress Françoise Hardy sitting outside in a rattan chair. John Frankenheimer like many directors who came into their prime during the 1950s and 1960s finally embraced the idea of doing an epic picture. But rather than making yet another overblown war picture or an epic romance he chose the Grand Prix with spectacular results. Shot on location in England Belgium France Monaco Italy the Netherlands and California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1977réf. 168484N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage reference photograph from the 1977 French film showing actors Françoise Fabian and Dayle Haddon. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the life of famed French brothel keeper Madame Claude who ran a high-class escort service in the heart of Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1966réf. 169548N.p.: N.p. 1966. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film. "Photo Rank" stamps on the versos. Two wounded gangsters seek refuge in a secluded beachfront castle home to a meek Englishman and his strong-willed wife. Director Roman Polanski's second English-language release. Shot on location at Lindisfarne Castle Northumberland England. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 577. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
1966réf. 169548N.p.: N.p. 1966. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film. "Photo Rank" stamps on the versos. Two wounded gangsters seek refuge in a secluded beachfront castle home to a meek Englishman and his strong-willed wife. Director Roman Polanski's second English-language release. Shot on location at Lindisfarne Castle Northumberland England. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 577. Grant US. N.p. unknown
