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1957ref. 145088Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage photograph of actors Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier getting their clothes fitted while in Nairobi for the production of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations and a rubber stamp on the verso. Based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert C. Ruark. Set amidst Kenya's Mau Mau uprising. Two childhood friends Peter Rock Hudson the son of a British colonist and Kimani Sidney Poitier a native to Kenyan grow up to be on opposing sides of the conflict each wishing for a more peaceful world while surrounded by extreme violence. Shot on location in Kenya. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] 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
1967ref. 149023N.p.: Royal Films International 1967. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1966 French film. A modern adaptation of the 1872 Emile Zola play "La Curee." Pampered young Renee Saccard Jane Fonda married to the older wealthy industrialist Alexandre Saccard Michel Piccoli is tricked out of her fortune when she falls for his son Maxime Peter McEnery. The second of four films Vadim and Fonda would make together. Set in Paris. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus some splitting to three of the folds. Royal Films International unknown
1966ref. 135801N.p.: Trans American Films 1966. Original pressbook for the 1966 Italian film. An early "mondo" documentary "shockumentary" featuring shockingly real customs throughout the world predating many similar films that would make the "video nasties" list a list of films banned in England in the 1980s. Not to be confused with the 1980 Lamberto Bava film of the same name. The "shockumentary" is a type of filmmaking that relates worldly customs and practices that would seem shocking to normal audiences often showcasing staged events rather than actual ones. Similar films include "Mondo cane" 1962 "Taboos of the World" 1963 and "Ecco" 1964. This film features gypsy tribes surgery footage wrestling head-hunting Brazilians sexy secretaries eating snakes hanging children on parade floats in Italy Swedish railway roulette and much more. Narrated by prolific voice-over actor Marvin Miller who's film credits include "Blood on the Sun" 1945 "Red Planet Mars" 1952 "Godzilla Raids Again" 1955 "Forbidden Planet" 1956 and Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" 1959. 11 x 17 inches saddle-stapled 8 pages. black-and-white throughout with green wrappers. Horizontal fold at the middle else Near Fine. Trans American Films unknown
1968ref. 139327California: Eve Productions 1968. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1968 film. Seen in the stills is Erica Gavin Vixen and Jon Evans Judd and a split image with Erica Gavin and Harrison Page Niles the duo responsible for the film's thick racial tensions. "Vixen!" was one of Meyer's best sleaziest and most commercially successful films made at the peak of his independent productions after "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" in 1965 and before "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" in 1970. What is less well known is that this film by way of Ms. Gavin marked a breakthrough in the onscreen portrayal of women in terms of sexual aggression using the then-new platform of late 1960s American independent cinema and the aftermath of the Summer of Love as a canvas. Gavin's titular character is a married woman whose sexual boundaries are none but instead of being a typical sex romp the film heads off into areas that can be reasonably described as unexplored by sexploitation films including communism race relations political debate and terrorist activity. But also present in the film are many of the genre's more familiar themes breast size incest nonstop sexual activity and a generous dose of humor. 8 x 10 inches. One still with a faint tape ghost and two short tears else Near Fine overall. Eve Productions unknown
1925ref. 150993Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1925. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1925 film showing actress Constance Talmadge sitting at a piano. Based on Ludwig Fulda's 1902 play "The Twin Sister." A housewife and her visiting twin sister a famed erotic dancer switch places in order to teach the men in their lives a lesson. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. First National Pictures unknown
1977ref. 138423Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1977. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1977 film. Based on the Tony Award-winning 1973 play by Peter Shaffer and adapted by Shaffer for the film. Photographs have been hand-retouched affixed to a backing board and prepared for use in advertising. A haunting film in which a psychiatrist slowly loses faith in himself while doggedly attempting to aid a teen obsessed with mutilating horses. Nominated for three Academy Awards and winner of two Golden Globes for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Shot on location in Toronto. Photos 8 x 10 inches on 10 x 15 inch mat board. Very Good to Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1974ref. 168123N.p.: Golden Films 1974. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film seen here under the working title "Evil in the Deep." A crew of maritime adventurers search for a long-lost sunken Spanish Galleon carrying a massive amount of treasure. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Golden Films unknown
1980ref. 163479N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1975-1984 television series. The series followed a divorced career woman and single mother as she tries to raise her two teenage daughters in an apartment building in Indianapolis with frequent visits from the building's nosy superintendent. In this episode the eldest daughter wants to move out into her own apartment to her mother's dismay. Set in Indianapolis. Front wrapper integral with title page with credits for screenwriter Stephen Thomas Sustarsic II. 38 leaves with last page of text numbered 37. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 161441N.p.: Executive Films 1966. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Two with "Tom Conroy" photographer stamps on the versos one of which has two labels affixed to the verso obscuring previous provenance stamps. A voyeur blackmails an ex-stripper for money then sex after observing her having an affair on her husband. Shot on location in Toronto. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Executive Films unknown
1954ref. 137133Japan: Daiei Studios 1954. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the US release of the 1953 Japanese film. Though not noted in any way this copy belonged to screenwriter director and film ephemera collector Leonard Schrader. The first Japanese color film to ever be released outside of Japan and a cornerstone Asian film. "Gate of Hell" tells the story of a samurai who wishes to marry a woman whom he has rescues only to find she is already married to another. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Costume Design as well as an honorary Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Criterion Collection 653. Masters of Cinema 40. Daiei Studios unknown
1973ref. 161326Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film showing actor Martin Sheen. Provenance labels on the verso. Director Terrence Malick's transcendent and ferocious debut loosely based on the 1958 murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in early outstanding performances. Kit a handsome but disaffected young garbage collector and Korean War veteran succeeds in charming Holly a shy teenage girl despite the objections of her brutish father. The two run away together after Kit murders her father initiating a killing streak that follows in their wake. Set in South Dakota shot on location in Colorado. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly scratched and worn. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 651. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert IV. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Grant US. Warner Brothers unknown
1961ref. 140940N.p.: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions 1961. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. Based on William Faulkner's novels "Sanctuary" and "Requiem for a Nun." A harsh film with frank dialogue throughout regarding rape female sensuality and sexual brutality. The final version of the film suffered from the changes made an attempt to make something "literary" and "respectable" from a novel where disrespect and ill repute were at the center of a grim story. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light toning overall wrinkling and a graphite manuscript notation to the verso of one image. Darryl F. Zanuck Productions unknown
1967ref. 162083N.p.: Leo-Todd Productions 1967. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. Provenance stamps on the verso of each. An obscure and likely lost sexploitation film from 1967. A wife searches for her missing husband experiencing the city's seedy underbelly. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Leo-Todd Productions unknown
1960ref. 145157Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1960. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. A story about two rival settlers on Alaska's frontier after World War I. Shot on location in Petersburg Alaska. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1967ref. 135367Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 film. Press stamps on the versos. A seven-part anthology ranging from comedy to drama starring actress Shirley MacLaine in various guises and all dealing with adultery and its ramifications. Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1940ref. 149144N.p.: Vitagraph 1940. Vintage keybook photograph of L-to-R Herbert Marshall James Stephenson back to camera director William Wyler and Bette Davis lunching at the Warner Brothers commissary during the filming of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Claiming self defense after shooting a man David Newell she was secretly having an affair with Leslie Crosbie Bette Davis is defended by an increasingly skeptical lawyer James Stephenson. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Cinematography Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. 11 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. Vitagraph unknown
1970ref. 129692New York: Delia Productions 1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. A verse play retelling of the Greek myth in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Alfred. 102 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Delia Productions unknown
ref. 130318N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A fantasy about some bandits of a secret society who live in the woods near the mythic Ibari. From Tony Award winning playwright Yasmina Reza this script was written in Europe and remains unproduced. Red-orange titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Reza and Martiny. 186 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 132691London: Miracle Films 1957. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" 1941 banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes and lost women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Miracle Films unknown
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ref. 2090202120402699Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
1978ref. 290221Fay Kanin 1978. Trade Paperback. 149 loose sheets 8.5 x 11 inches printed in black recto only on white. Fay Kanin 1917-2013 was a screenwriter and producer. She and her husband Michael were blacklisted by HUAC. She wrote and produced Friendly Fire for television. Starring Carol Burnett. The film won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama or Comedy of the Year. Fay later was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 4 terms 1979-1983. 'Rev. Final Draft / July 25 1978' typed on bottom of cover sheet. Near fine copy. Fay Kanin paperback
1973ref. 62975Los Angeles and New York 1973. Postcard and note paper 4 x 5 inches total of approximately 100 words both signed "Terrence." Accompanied by a simple illustrated program for "Whisky" and a snapshot of one of the friends dated 1969. Among McNally's many awards are an Emmy and four Tonys. All very good. 9740. unknown
1975ref. 2090202118000784Nihonterebi 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Nihonterebi paperback
