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1967ref. 156020London: The Rank Organization 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 film. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos of three photographs and all four with the stamps of The Rank Organization. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A successful advertising executive decides to quit his job and break up with his wife and mistresses in order to pursue his dream of being a literary writer but finds the transition more difficult than anticipated. Set and shot on location in London. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. The Rank Organization unknown books
1959ref. 132745London: Rank Film Distributors 1959. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1959 UK film. Mark Conrad Jurgens is an alcoholic with a questionable history who gets exiled from Hong Kong. He is sent to work on a ferry owned by Captain Hart Welles who comes to despise Conrad. A story set and shot on location in Hong Kong. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases else Near Fine. Rank Film Distributors unknown books
1961ref. 101276London March 8 1961. 1961. Fine. - Over 110 words typed on his 10 inch high by 8 inch wide "John Osborne Productions Ltd." stationery. Replying to a young actor's request for advice the playwright & actor John Osborne writes "I cannot imagine why you should think I might be able to help or advise you. For one thing I do not know you or your circumstances and I can't quite make out what is is you want to know. If you want to be an actor go and be one if you don't don't. In any case don't expect to be successful or to be loved." Signed in full "John Osborne". Folded for mailing else fine with the original air mail envelope. The English playwright screenwriter and actor John Osborne 1929-1994 is thought of as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre. He briefly worked as a journalist before working as a stage manager and actor. He gained national recognition and fame with his third produced play "Look Back in Anger" in 1956. This first work of "kitchen sink realism" inspired a movement of social realism within domestic settings addressing the disillusion with British Society. George Fearon coined the phrase "angry young man" to describe Osborne when promoting the play. London, March 8, 1961.
1955ref. 151966Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. First Estimating Draft script for an unproduced film. In ancient Babylon Sargon the king's physician is sent by King Nebuchadnezzar to stir up a revolt in nearby Judah in order to undercut the prophet Jeremiah. Screenwriter Oscar Millard was best known for "Come to the Stable" 1949 "The Frogmen" 1951 and "Angel Face" 1953. Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT on the front wrapper and production No. 8309 dated Dec. 16 1955. Title page present dated December 15 1955 noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Oscar Millard. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1955ref. 151966Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. First Estimating Draft script for an unproduced film. In ancient Babylon Sargon the king's physician is sent by King Nebuchadnezzar to stir up a revolt in nearby Judah in order to undercut the prophet Jeremiah. Screenwriter Oscar Millard was best known for "Come to the Stable" 1949 "The Frogmen" 1951 and "Angel Face" 1953. Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT on the front wrapper and production No. 8309 dated Dec. 16 1955. Title page present dated December 15 1955 noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Oscar Millard. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 162620N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the alternate release title "The Young Divorcess." Provenance stamp on the verso. Loosely based on the 1897 Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Featuring early performances by George Takei and eventual director of "Fright Night" Tom Holland. In a 2006 interview with Howard Stern Takei revealed that the sex scenes were shot with body doubles and added only after the film was unable to secure distribution. Takei added that he was "impressed" with the body double used for his character. Three recently divorced twenty somethings abandon their suffocating lives and shack up as free-sprited free-love hippies. Today a cult favorite. Shot on location in San Diego and Piru California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1945ref. 158794Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1945 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1943ref. 156715Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript annotations in pencil on several pages. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. Goldenrod studio wrappers rubber-stamped FILE COPY and COMPLETE on the front wrapper noted as copy No. 67 and production No. 5069 dated 11-5-43 with credits for director Albert Lewin. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with a single pink revision page dated 3-13-44. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Good only with a tear on the bottom right portion of the front wrapper and rear wrapper split from the binding bound with two gold brads. Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1943ref. 156715Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript annotations in pencil on several pages. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. Goldenrod studio wrappers rubber-stamped FILE COPY and COMPLETE on the front wrapper noted as copy No. 67 and production No. 5069 dated 11-5-43 with credits for director Albert Lewin. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with a single pink revision page dated 3-13-44. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Good only with a tear on the bottom right portion of the front wrapper and rear wrapper split from the binding bound with two gold brads. Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1945ref. 158794Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1945 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1971ref. 162620N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the alternate release title "The Young Divorcess." Provenance stamp on the verso. Loosely based on the 1897 Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Featuring early performances by George Takei and eventual director of "Fright Night" Tom Holland. In a 2006 interview with Howard Stern Takei revealed that the sex scenes were shot with body doubles and added only after the film was unable to secure distribution. Takei added that he was "impressed" with the body double used for his character. Three recently divorced twenty somethings abandon their suffocating lives and shack up as free-sprited free-love hippies. Today a cult favorite. Shot on location in San Diego and Piru California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 152885Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1972. Archive of material from the 1972 film belonging to noted Blaxploitation director Oscar Williams. Included in the archive are two black and white photographs of cast and crew on the set one publicity photograph of musician Isaac Hayes a pressbook numerous day player employment contracts and Screen Actors Guild freelance contracts two newspaper clippings promoting the film attached to stiff white paper a list of participating theaters expense receipts and a significant amount of correspondence between Williams producer Lawrence S. Cruikshank and other crew members. Bronx-born director Williams directed and wrote a number of key Blaxploitation films in the heyday of the genre including "Five on the Black Hand Side" 1973 "Black Belt Jones" 1974 "Truck Turner" 1974 "Hot Potato" 1976 and "Death Drug" 1978. "The Final Comedown" his directorial and screenwriting debut follows a shootout between the police and a radical Black nationalist group similar to the Black Panthers punctuated by flashbacks leading up to the event. Varying sizes. Generally Very Good plus with light dampstaining wear and age-toning throughout. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 138 229. New World Pictures unknown
1972ref. 152885Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1972. Archive of material from the 1972 film belonging to noted Blaxploitation director Oscar Williams. Included in the archive are two black and white photographs of cast and crew on the set one publicity photograph of musician Isaac Hayes a pressbook numerous day player employment contracts and Screen Actors Guild freelance contracts two newspaper clippings promoting the film attached to stiff white paper a list of participating theaters expense receipts and a significant amount of correspondence between Williams producer Lawrence S. Cruikshank and other crew members. Bronx-born director Williams directed and wrote a number of key Blaxploitation films in the heyday of the genre including "Five on the Black Hand Side" 1973 "Black Belt Jones" 1974 "Truck Turner" 1974 "Hot Potato" 1976 and "Death Drug" 1978. "The Final Comedown" his directorial and screenwriting debut follows a shootout between the police and a radical Black nationalist group similar to the Black Panthers punctuated by flashbacks leading up to the event. Varying sizes. Generally Very Good plus with light dampstaining wear and age-toning throughout. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 138 229. New World Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 150707Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on J.E. Franklin's 1969 play. The youngest daughter in a working-class African American family dreams of becoming a dancer and is determined to avoid the fate of her mother and two older sisters who married and had children at a young age and who express dissatisfaction and frustration with their stagnant lives. One of the few blaxsploitation films of the 1970s to depict the everyday lives and dreams of blue collar Black women. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 97-98. Cinerama Releasing unknown
1970ref. 163788N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Blindstamps at the corners with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Based on the 1965 Chester Himes novel. An early blaxpoitation film about two cops investigating a phony local preacher. The film proved a runaway box office success inspiring a slew of buddy cop films both within the genre and beyond. Set and shot on location in Harlem. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Parish and Hill 71. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 150707Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on J.E. Franklin's 1969 play. The youngest daughter in a working-class African American family dreams of becoming a dancer and is determined to avoid the fate of her mother and two older sisters who married and had children at a young age and who express dissatisfaction and frustration with their stagnant lives. One of the few blaxsploitation films of the 1970s to depict the everyday lives and dreams of blue collar Black women. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 97-98. Cinerama Releasing unknown books
1970ref. 163788N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Blindstamps at the corners with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Based on the 1965 Chester Himes novel. An early blaxpoitation film about two cops investigating a phony local preacher. The film proved a runaway box office success inspiring a slew of buddy cop films both within the genre and beyond. Set and shot on location in Harlem. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Parish and Hill 71. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 161339N.p.: Arca-Film 1969. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 West German film. Five with Arca-Film stamps on the verso. A pseudo-documentary sexploitation film about infidelity told through several stories of broken marriages. Three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches three photographs 7 x 5 inches. Light soil on the versos else Near Fine. Arca-Film unknown
1969ref. 161339N.p.: Arca-Film 1969. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 West German film. Five with Arca-Film stamps on the verso. A pseudo-documentary sexploitation film about infidelity told through several stories of broken marriages. Three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches three photographs 7 x 5 inches. Light soil on the versos else Near Fine. Arca-Film unknown books
1937ref. 130886Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1937. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1938 film. Based on the 1936 novel by William Edward Haynes. The second installment of the Universal Crime Club mysteries. A man finds a black doll after murdering his business partner and is then later murdered himself. A detective tries to solves the mystery with multiple suspects. White self-wrappers with credits for director Otis Garrett. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads along the top edge. Universal Pictures unknown
1937ref. 130886Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1937. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1938 film. Based on the 1936 novel by William Edward Haynes. The second installment of the Universal Crime Club mysteries. A man finds a black doll after murdering his business partner and is then later murdered himself. A detective tries to solves the mystery with multiple suspects. White self-wrappers with credits for director Otis Garrett. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads along the top edge. Universal Pictures unknown books
1936ref. 146047Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1936. Final Shooting script for the 1936 film here under the working title "Turmoil." With manuscript annotations in ink and blue pencil on the front wrapper and title page and a single manuscript pencil notation to the verso of page 80. Based on the 1930 novel "Job." Grieved by the death of his wife an Austrian sexton is abandoned by his eldest son who goes to America and finds success as an engineer and abandons his younger son at a monastery upon learning that the child is a deaf-mute. Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper dated FEB. 28 1936. Title page present dated February 28 1936 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for novelist Joseph Roth and screenwriter Samuel G. Engel. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/20/35 and 3/3/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor with usual dryness and chipping common to Fox wrappers of this era and detached. Pages supple bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1936ref. 146047Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1936. Final Shooting script for the 1936 film here under the working title "Turmoil." With manuscript annotations in ink and blue pencil on the front wrapper and title page and a single manuscript pencil notation to the verso of page 80. Based on the 1930 novel "Job." Grieved by the death of his wife an Austrian sexton is abandoned by his eldest son who goes to America and finds success as an engineer and abandons his younger son at a monastery upon learning that the child is a deaf-mute. Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper dated FEB. 28 1936. Title page present dated February 28 1936 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for novelist Joseph Roth and screenwriter Samuel G. Engel. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/20/35 and 3/3/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor with usual dryness and chipping common to Fox wrappers of this era and detached. Pages supple bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1933ref. 158874N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph of Otto Kruger from the 1933 film. Kruger stars as a celebrity lawyer who is blindsided upon discovering his new case involves the murder of his ex-wife who left him ten years earlier. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a light crease to the far right and a tiny closed tear to the top right margin. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 151621Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Collection of 20 vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Based on Allen Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning political shocker of 1959 but detached from the novel's Cold War agenda about how American government functions in a free society. Set and shot on location in Washington DC. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine some with light wear to the corners. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Columbia Pictures unknown
