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1946ref. 156250New York: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir seen here under the working title "What Nancy Wanted" showing actor Robert Mitchum in an artist's studio. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. RKO Radio Pictures stamp on the verso crediting photographer Alex Kahle. Moments before his wedding a man learns that his fiancée is a kleptomaniac who has cheated lied and even killed in her previous relationships. Set in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1960ref. 156027Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1960. Vintage reference photograph of actor Robert Mitchum on the set of the 1960 film using a Eumig C16 16mm cine-camera. Based on John Cleary's 1952 novel about the experiences of a small impoverished family of nomads in the Australian outback. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Australia. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with old glue residue on the verso and light wear to the finish at the corners. Warner Brothers unknown
1946ref. 156250New York: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir seen here under the working title "What Nancy Wanted" showing actor Robert Mitchum in an artist's studio. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. RKO Radio Pictures stamp on the verso crediting photographer Alex Kahle. Moments before his wedding a man learns that his fiancée is a kleptomaniac who has cheated lied and even killed in her previous relationships. Set in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 156027Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1960. Vintage reference photograph of actor Robert Mitchum on the set of the 1960 film using a Eumig C16 16mm cine-camera. Based on John Cleary's 1952 novel about the experiences of a small impoverished family of nomads in the Australian outback. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Australia. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with old glue residue on the verso and light wear to the finish at the corners. Warner Brothers unknown books
1984ref. 166247Burbank CA: Columbia Pictures Television 1984. Draft script for the 1985 television movie seen here under the working title "Reunion at Thurleigh." Copy belonging to secretary Carol Wynn-Jones with her name in manuscript ink on the title page and her annotations throughout noting revisions and deletions. Laid in with the script is a letter from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament dated September 16 1984 declining to allow the film's producers to use their organization name and images in the film. A successful but lonely Chicago businessman attends a World War II veterans reunion in England and begins a romance with an old flame during the trip. Originally aired on HBO on May 12 1985. Shot on location in Surrey Cambridgeshire and London. Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Albert Ruben with date 20-9-84 and copy number 52 noted in manuscript ink. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revisions throughout dated variously between September 20 and October 3 1984. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine housed in a black binder. Columbia Pictures Television unknown books
1947ref. 161213Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1947. Vintage herald for the 1947 film noir. Based on Daniel Mainwaring's 1946 debut novel "Build My Gallows High." A former private detective lives a quiet life in a small town until his past catches up with him forcing him to return to the world of crime. An unimpeachable high spot of the genre. Set in Bridgeport California shot in the High Sierra Mountains of Nevada and Reno as well as locations throughout California. 12 x 9 inches. Bi-fold. Fine. Grant US. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1946ref. 172443Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film. With a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and an RKO Radio Pictures stamp dated 1946 with a credit for photographer Rod Tolmie. Based on the 1946 novel "Build My Gallows High" by Daniel Mainwaring. A former private detective lives a quiet life in a small town until his past catches up with him forcing him to return to the world of crime. Set in Bridgeport California shot in the High Sierra Mountains of Nevada and Reno as well as locations throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with toning and some light creasing. Grant US. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 131991Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1947 film. Based on the Raymond Chandler's 1943 novel his fourth book and the fourth Philip Marlowe adventure. An unusual and ambitious film noir and Montgomery's final film for MGM. In a concept that originated with Montgomery who directed the entire film is shot from Marlowe's perspective with the protagonist only ever visible in reflections and during a few scenes when he addresses the audience directly. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Faint distribution company blindstamp to lower corner with a tiny bruise some light scratching and a couple of pin holes to the upper corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1947ref. 131991Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1947 film. Based on the Raymond Chandler's 1943 novel his fourth book and the fourth Philip Marlowe adventure. An unusual and ambitious film noir and Montgomery's final film for MGM. In a concept that originated with Montgomery who directed the entire film is shot from Marlowe's perspective with the protagonist only ever visible in reflections and during a few scenes when he addresses the audience directly. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Faint distribution company blindstamp to lower corner with a tiny bruise some light scratching and a couple of pin holes to the upper corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1978ref. 139722Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1978. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. Peter Falk parodies every detective role he has ever played in this goofy spoof about a private eye who is accused of murdering his partner and who is also simultaneously searching for a dozen diamond eggs. The film trots out an all-star set of cameos including appearances by Stockard Channing Dom DeLuise Madeline Kahn James Cromwell James Coco and many others. Set in 1940s San Francisco. Set in San Francisco shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with blue manuscript annotations to the verso. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1977ref. 149823Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on the 1976 coming-of-age novel. A young man from a working class Italian background struggles to balance the blue collar desires of his volatile family with his own dream of becoming a teacher. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in the Bronx New York. Goldenrod titled Warner Brothers wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 14 1977. Title page present dated March 14 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Walter Newman and novelist Richard Price. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/28/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1987ref. 130708Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1987. Fourth Draft script for the 1988 film. Based on the 1985 novel by Joseph Olshan. A family is in crisis following the death of their child from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The mother takes a trip to Jamaica where she meets Clara Mayfield Goldberg who helps her overcome her grief with her no-nonsense straight talk. The mother invites her back to Baltimore to raise their young son Harris and Clara is eventually compelled to reveal dark secrets about her past. Pink titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 8 1987 noted as Fourth Draft with credits for screenwriter Medoff and writer Olshan. 128 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine with some mild sunning bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1965ref. 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
1963ref. 157998Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film showing director Robert Mulligan examining negatives during filming on location in New York. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A young Italian-American salesgirl realizes she is pregnant after a one-night-stand with a jazz musician and seeks him out in order to raise money for an abortion. Shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Paramount Pictures unknown
1963ref. 151421Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph taken during filming on location for the 1963 film showing a camera crew set up in the center of West 34th Street in Manhattan with hundreds of onlookers surrounding the filmmakers. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A young Italian-American salesgirl realizes she is pregnant after a one-night-stand with a jazz musician and seeks him out in order to raise money for an abortion. Shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Paramount Pictures unknown
1971ref. 145946Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage borderless publicity photograph of Jennifer O'Neill on the set of the 1971 film. Nostalgic screenplay about a teenager during the war years who becomes infatuated with an older war widow. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Score and nominated for three others. Set in Nantucket Island shot on location in California and Ontario. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light corner and edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown
1963ref. 157998Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film showing director Robert Mulligan examining negatives during filming on location in New York. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A young Italian-American salesgirl realizes she is pregnant after a one-night-stand with a jazz musician and seeks him out in order to raise money for an abortion. Shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 151421Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph taken during filming on location for the 1963 film showing a camera crew set up in the center of West 34th Street in Manhattan with hundreds of onlookers surrounding the filmmakers. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A young Italian-American salesgirl realizes she is pregnant after a one-night-stand with a jazz musician and seeks him out in order to raise money for an abortion. Shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 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
1962ref. 141379Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film. An iconic literary film adaptation set in small-town Alabama that explores the complexity of race and childhood in the deep South. Based on the novel by Harper Lee winner of three Academy Awards. Shot on location in Alabama and California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a red cropping notation at the bottom margin of the recto and extensive blue and black manuscript ink annotations to the verso. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 145946Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage borderless publicity photograph of Jennifer O'Neill on the set of the 1971 film. Nostalgic screenplay about a teenager during the war years who becomes infatuated with an older war widow. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Score and nominated for three others. Set in Nantucket Island shot on location in California and Ontario. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light corner and edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown books
1987ref. 130708Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1987. Fourth Draft script for the 1988 film. Based on the 1985 novel by Joseph Olshan. A family is in crisis following the death of their child from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The mother takes a trip to Jamaica where she meets Clara Mayfield Goldberg who helps her overcome her grief with her no-nonsense straight talk. The mother invites her back to Baltimore to raise their young son Harris and Clara is eventually compelled to reveal dark secrets about her past. Pink titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 8 1987 noted as Fourth Draft with credits for screenwriter Medoff and writer Olshan. 128 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine with some mild sunning bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1977ref. 149823Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on the 1976 coming-of-age novel. A young man from a working class Italian background struggles to balance the blue collar desires of his volatile family with his own dream of becoming a teacher. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in the Bronx New York. Goldenrod titled Warner Brothers wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 14 1977. Title page present dated March 14 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Walter Newman and novelist Richard Price. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/28/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1989ref. 167376Burbank CA: NBC Productions 1989. Draft script for the first episode of the 1989-90 NBC television series which aired on September 21 1989. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played Heavy #1 with his stamp on the top of the title page and manuscript ink annotations on the cast page listing the actors next to their characters and noting director David Hemmings. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated 5/15/89. Not to be confused with the 2001 film directed by Brian Robbins starring Keanu Reeves the 1994 Fox television series about a fictional American League baseball team or the 2019 Australian children's television series. Created by Robert Plam the series about a veteran plainclothes detective Charles Battles John Ashton who is about to be reassigned to a desk job or forced into retirement and is forced to partner with a young unconventional detective Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski Richard Tyson with whom he is constantly at odds aired for one season of 18 episodes before ending on June 29 1980. In the premiere episode Battles finds out he's about to be reassigned to desk job and is partnered with the young hotshot "Kaz" before being quickly assigned to protect a key witness the wife of a mobster and an old girlfriend of Battles who is about to testify against her husband. Set in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page dated April 24 1989 with credits for screenwriter Frank Lupo. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 4/26/89. Pages Very Good plus with light foxing to the outer leaves and fore-edge bound with two gold brads. NBC Productions unknown
1989ref. 167376Burbank CA: NBC Productions 1989. Draft script for the first episode of the 1989-90 NBC television series which aired on September 21 1989. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played Heavy #1 with his stamp on the top of the title page and manuscript ink annotations on the cast page listing the actors next to their characters and noting director David Hemmings. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated 5/15/89. Not to be confused with the 2001 film directed by Brian Robbins starring Keanu Reeves the 1994 Fox television series about a fictional American League baseball team or the 2019 Australian children's television series. Created by Robert Plam the series about a veteran plainclothes detective Charles Battles John Ashton who is about to be reassigned to a desk job or forced into retirement and is forced to partner with a young unconventional detective Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski Richard Tyson with whom he is constantly at odds aired for one season of 18 episodes before ending on June 29 1980. In the premiere episode Battles finds out he's about to be reassigned to desk job and is partnered with the young hotshot "Kaz" before being quickly assigned to protect a key witness the wife of a mobster and an old girlfriend of Battles who is about to testify against her husband. Set in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page dated April 24 1989 with credits for screenwriter Frank Lupo. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 4/26/89. Pages Very Good plus with light foxing to the outer leaves and fore-edge bound with two gold brads. NBC Productions unknown books
