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1957ref. 145964N.p.: Bel-Air Productions 1957. Vintage studio photograph from the 1957 film. Bel-Air Productions stamp on the verso. Based on the story "Wanton Murder" by Peter Godfrey and shot under the working title "Black Stockings" Howard W. Koch's B movie noir "The Girl in Black Stockings" despite it being a low-budget "second feature" film is surprisingly enjoyable mostly due to its exceptional cast. LA lawyer David Hewson Lex Barker arrives at a Utah lodge for a peaceful vacation only to find women being mutilated and murdered and everyone is suspect. Featuring a young Anne Bancroft as pretty young Beth Dixon switchboard operator and assistant to the bitter wheelchair-bound lodge owner Edmund Parry Ron Randell. Mamie Van Doren is Harriet Ames the flirtatious bombshell of course and "the Queen of the B's" the fabulous Marie Windsor is Julia Parry Edmund's dutiful companion and sister. Filmed in and around the Parry Lodge in Kanab Utah. The Parry lodge opened in the early 1930s by the Parry brothers was built to lodge Hollywood film crews filming early Westerns in the area and was popular among movie stars of Hollywood's golden age. Set in Kanab Utah shot on location in Kanab Utah and Fredonia Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light creasing and edgewear. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Bel-Air Productions unknown books
1957ref. 145964N.p.: Bel-Air Productions 1957. Vintage studio photograph from the 1957 film. Bel-Air Productions stamp on the verso. Based on the story "Wanton Murder" by Peter Godfrey and shot under the working title "Black Stockings" Howard W. Koch's B movie noir "The Girl in Black Stockings" despite it being a low-budget "second feature" film is surprisingly enjoyable mostly due to its exceptional cast. LA lawyer David Hewson Lex Barker arrives at a Utah lodge for a peaceful vacation only to find women being mutilated and murdered and everyone is suspect. Featuring a young Anne Bancroft as pretty young Beth Dixon switchboard operator and assistant to the bitter wheelchair-bound lodge owner Edmund Parry Ron Randell. Mamie Van Doren is Harriet Ames the flirtatious bombshell of course and "the Queen of the B's" the fabulous Marie Windsor is Julia Parry Edmund's dutiful companion and sister. Filmed in and around the Parry Lodge in Kanab Utah. The Parry lodge opened in the early 1930s by the Parry brothers was built to lodge Hollywood film crews filming early Westerns in the area and was popular among movie stars of Hollywood's golden age. Set in Kanab Utah shot on location in Kanab Utah and Fredonia Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light creasing and edgewear. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Bel-Air Productions unknown
1970ref. 129814Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Draft script for an unproduced television pilot by Howard Rodman whose brief but extremely impressive docket includes the screenplay for three Don Siegel-directed films: "Madigan" 1968 "Coogan's Bluff" 1968 and "Charley Varrick" 1973. Rodman also served as a writer and story supervisor on three major television series: "Naked City" 1960-1963 "Route 66 1960-1963 and "Harry O" 1973-1976. Light blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Rodman. 93 leaves mechanical duplication with red annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1930ref. 148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout. Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1930ref. 148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout. Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1930ref. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 140417N.p.: Laurel Productions 1965. Three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1965 film. George Takei appears in a pre-"Star Trek" role which also features James Caan Laura Devon and Marianna Hill as well as an uncredited appearance by Teri Garr as a go-go dancer. Shot on location in various motor speedways across the United States including the Daytona International Speedway in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing to one image and pin holes and a manuscript ink notation to another. Rosenbaum 1000. Laurel Productions unknown books
1963ref. 151796Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph of Paula Prentiss Howard Hawks and Maria Perschy on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the short story "The Girl Who Almost Got Away" by Pat Frank published in the July 1950 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Roger Willoughby Rock Hudson esteemed author and expert on fishing has never fished and when outspoken and unshakable PR agent Abigail Page Prentiss enters him into a fishing tournament mayhem and possibly romance ensues. Howard Hawks' homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s particularly his' own 1938 classic "Bringing Up Baby" starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant who he tried unsuccessfully to get to reprise their roles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 161554Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1966. Vintage reference photograph of screenwriter Leigh Brackett and director Howard Hawks on the set of the 1966 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the verso. Loosely based on Harry Brown's 1960 novel "The Stars in Their Courses." A gunfighter comes to the aid of his old friend now a sheriff to defend a rancher's family. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1938ref. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1935ref. 139849Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company 1935. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1935 film. Miriam Hopkins plays Mary Rutledge a widow who begins working at the roulette wheel of a pub in San Francisco. She is tirelessly pursued by the club's owner and she in turn pursues one of the clientele a wealthy gold miner. A love triangle ensues with rather violent consequences. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Good with creasing overall pin holes to the cornerssoiling to the verso and a small closed tear to the right margin. Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown books
1932ref. 149643N.p.: N.p. 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film showing actors Paul Muni George Raft Karen Morley Purnell Pratt and others. Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" released only a few months prior generally considered to be the quintessential American gangster film one that Capone himself came to embrace and even screen in his home. Set in Chicago. Both photos 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine and Very Good plus respectively. First photo Muni and Morley dancing has two short closed tears at the top edge repaired with conservator's tape on the verso. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Penzler 101. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
1938ref. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1966ref. 161554Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1966. Vintage reference photograph of screenwriter Leigh Brackett and director Howard Hawks on the set of the 1966 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the verso. Loosely based on Harry Brown's 1960 novel "The Stars in Their Courses." A gunfighter comes to the aid of his old friend now a sheriff to defend a rancher's family. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Paramount Pictures unknown
1963ref. 151796Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph of Paula Prentiss Howard Hawks and Maria Perschy on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the short story "The Girl Who Almost Got Away" by Pat Frank published in the July 1950 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Roger Willoughby Rock Hudson esteemed author and expert on fishing has never fished and when outspoken and unshakable PR agent Abigail Page Prentiss enters him into a fishing tournament mayhem and possibly romance ensues. Howard Hawks' homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s particularly his' own 1938 classic "Bringing Up Baby" starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant who he tried unsuccessfully to get to reprise their roles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1932ref. 149643N.p.: N.p. 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film showing actors Paul Muni George Raft Karen Morley Purnell Pratt and others. Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" released only a few months prior generally considered to be the quintessential American gangster film one that Capone himself came to embrace and even screen in his home. Set in Chicago. Both photos 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine and Very Good plus respectively. First photo Muni and Morley dancing has two short closed tears at the top edge repaired with conservator's tape on the verso. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Penzler 101. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1930ref. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown
1982ref. 141263N.p.: N.p. 1982. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two letters to agent Walter Kohner dated December 29 1982 and January 24 1983 respectively-the first introducing the script and the second from an agency reader critiquing the script. The brother of a horse breeder is in a successful country western band. When one of the bandmates begins running drugs the band's private jet gets bombed with the brothers being the lead suspects in the subsequent investigation. They work to clear their names and find the true criminals. Set in Atlanta. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised with credit for screenwriter Howard B. Kreitsek. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a spiral binding. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 141263N.p.: N.p. 1982. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two letters to agent Walter Kohner dated December 29 1982 and January 24 1983 respectively-the first introducing the script and the second from an agency reader critiquing the script. The brother of a horse breeder is in a successful country western band. When one of the bandmates begins running drugs the band's private jet gets bombed with the brothers being the lead suspects in the subsequent investigation. They work to clear their names and find the true criminals. Set in Atlanta. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised with credit for screenwriter Howard B. Kreitsek. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a spiral binding. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 166618N.p.: N.p. 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 film here under the working title "Invitation to Death." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout amending dialog and underlining his character "Steve." Bound in following the script are two pages of extensive handwritten notes in pencil elaborating on the actions and motivations of the character "Steve" in specific scenes likely written by screenwriter and director Howard Avedis. Laid in is a 24 page schedule with manuscript pencil annotations underlining the character "Steve" throughout with the manuscript marker annotation of Dimitri's name along the top edge of the first leaf. Connie Stevens stars as a sexy and horny federal narcotics agent who goes undercover to investigate heroin smuggler Cesare Danova. Director and screenwriter Howard Avedis' exploitation take on William Fiedkin's 1971 classic "The French Connection" with a female cop in the lead including an outrageous chase scene involving Ms. Stevens in a dunebuggy. A cult classic. Set in and shot on location in Seattle King County and Kirkland Washington and Portland Oregon. Burgundy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 6 1975 noted as Second Draft Revised with credits for screenwriter Hikmet Avedis. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 162257N.p.: Magic Eye of Hollywood Productions Crown International 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Architect Frank Delgado murders a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife and attempts to conceal the crime. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Magic Eye of Hollywood Productions [Crown International] unknown books
1975ref. 166618N.p.: N.p. 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 film here under the working title "Invitation to Death." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout amending dialog and underlining his character "Steve." Bound in following the script are two pages of extensive handwritten notes in pencil elaborating on the actions and motivations of the character "Steve" in specific scenes likely written by screenwriter and director Howard Avedis. Laid in is a 24 page schedule with manuscript pencil annotations underlining the character "Steve" throughout with the manuscript marker annotation of Dimitri's name along the top edge of the first leaf. Connie Stevens stars as a sexy and horny federal narcotics agent who goes undercover to investigate heroin smuggler Cesare Danova. Director and screenwriter Howard Avedis' exploitation take on William Fiedkin's 1971 classic "The French Connection" with a female cop in the lead including an outrageous chase scene involving Ms. Stevens in a dunebuggy. A cult classic. Set in and shot on location in Seattle King County and Kirkland Washington and Portland Oregon. Burgundy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 6 1975 noted as Second Draft Revised with credits for screenwriter Hikmet Avedis. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 162257N.p.: Magic Eye of Hollywood Productions Crown International 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Architect Frank Delgado murders a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife and attempts to conceal the crime. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Magic Eye of Hollywood Productions [Crown International] unknown
1917ref. 171493N.p.: N.p. 1917. Vintage reference photograph from the 1917 silent film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A hardworking mine owner is secretly in love with a young woman who unfortunately decides to marry the man's frivolous brother. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn and lightly toned. N.p. unknown books
1917ref. 171493N.p.: N.p. 1917. Vintage reference photograph from the 1917 silent film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A hardworking mine owner is secretly in love with a young woman who unfortunately decides to marry the man's frivolous brother. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn and lightly toned. N.p. unknown
