1937ref. 143347Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage photographs of director W.S. Van Dyke instructing a bleacher full of young women including stars Eleanor Powell and Ilona Massey on the set of the 1937 musical film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1928 Broadway musical about a West Point cadet who falls for a Vasser student who just happens to be a princess in disguise with most of the original songs by George and Ira Gershwin replaced with new material by Cole Porter including the classic "In the Still of the Night." 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
ref. 146573Los Angeles: Jerry Merton Productions Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a small manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper reading "# 39." Based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's 1923 short story about a prospector who finally strikes gold attributing the fortune to his lucky mule Jenet. Set in the American Southwest. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Stephen Kandel and novelist Zane Grey. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. Jerry Merton Productions unknown
1980ref. 151984Munich: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting copy No. 101. A power-hungry emperor demands the much-maligned Jewish people of his kingdom give him the Schem a mystical philosopher's stone leading a rabbi to create a golem for defense-a giant anthropomorphic creature made from mud and clay. Blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Zev Mahler. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Zev Mahler. 162 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 1901200426Finland: Films Lutétia/S.L.P.F. 1957. No Binding. Fine. An unusual pairing: an original Finnish tour poster for Cette Sacrée Gamine Naughty Girl 1956 the French comedy starring Brigitte Bardot combined with a postcard-sized photographic print hand-signed by Bardot. The poster measures approximately 15.25 × 23.5 inches. Unused no pinholes no tape residue no notable edge wear. Superb condition ideal for display or a serious Bardot collection. Tour poster format; no printer information noted. The hand-signed photograph is a postcard-sized photographic image bearing Bardot's signature. An attractive combined lot for collectors of French cinema memorabilia or Bardot ephemera. Films Lutétia/S.L.P.F. unknown
1985ref. 152106N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a brief handwritten note clipped to the first leaf on PanArts letterhead dated 9/7/89 addressed to actor Johnny Crawford from Robert Crawford introducing the script. Based on the nineteenth-century novel by Hayden Carruth. A young boy finds himself lost in a snowstorm in the northwestern prairie and must struggle to survive aided by his cat Pawsy and his dog Kaiser. Set in the Dakota Territory. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 28 1985 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for novelist Hayden Carruth and screenwriter Eric Bercovici. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1930ref. 34866New York: circa 1930. 1930. Good. - 41 words typed on an approximately 10 inch high by 8 inch wide sheet of his personalized letterhead. Signed "A Abdullah". Folded 3 times for mailing. There are several short tears at the folds with some light red staining below the text. There is some light soiling at bottom right and there is a crease & tear to & a small piece out of the bottom right corner. Good. Abdullah writes to future congressman Seymour Halpern that he is too busy to see anyone but "I am sending by this mail the signed picture to your friend." Achmed Abdullah who claimed descent from the Russian imperial family and was educated in England emigrated to the United States in the 1910s. He went on to become an American author and screenwriter most noted for his pulp stories of crime mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films and earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay for the 1935 film "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer". The Queens New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern 1913-1997 started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law including measures on schools housing civil rights nutrition and mental health. A Liberal he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits including painting and collecting autographs he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. New York: circa [1930]. unknown
1970ref. 141822N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Based on the early life of Adolf Hitler as taken from his own account in "Mein Kampf." An idealistic youth with a great love for life and art Hitler spends most of his adolescence and childhood alone and neglected. Set in Austria. Red titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Daniel Martin Klein. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Daniel Martin Klein. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 049457Istanbul. Soft cover. Very Good. Original autograph letter signed as 'Sadi' sent to Vasfi Riza Zobu. 1 p. In Ottoman script. Letterhead 'Ferah: Sinema-varyete-tiyaro'. Dated 31-12-1929 Istanbul. It starts as 'Muhterem Vasfi Riza bey'. Used black ink with fountain pen. It's a letter of appeal. Vasfi Riza Zobu was born on December 5 1902 in Constantinople Ottoman Empire. He was an actor known for Karim beni aldatirsa 1933 Ankara postasi 1928 and Milyon avcilari 1934. He died on November 23 1992 in Istanbul Turkey. Aktör Sadi started his art career as a theater actor. He appeared on the stage at school along with Muvahhit actor husband of paintress Bedia Muvahhit writer Refik Halit Karay and Refi 'Cevat Ulunay. After the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy he started the professional theater company which was founded by Resat Ridvanand the playwright Ibnürrefik Ahmet Nuri Sekizinci. Bican Efendi series in which he played the title role after the WW 1 was accepted from the first comedy of Turkish cinema history. paperback
1968ref. 162085New York: Grove Press International Film Festival / Evergreen Film 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 French-Czechoslovak film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An experimental film addressing post-traumatic stress disorder and postwar Europe about a man who insists on providing varying contradictory accounts of his activities during the war. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly creased at corners else about Near Fine. Grove Press International Film Festival / Evergreen Film unknown
1951ref. 160232N.p.: N.p. 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film. A dutiful bank clerk is convinced by his new neighbor an eccentric artist to steal gold bullion in order to melt it down to make miniature Eiffel Towers. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Ranked the 17th greatest British film of all time by the BFI. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the top left corner and lightly soiled on the center right edge. Lee "The Heist Film. N.p. unknown
1989ref. 159717San Francisco: Roxie Cinema 1989. Vintage poster for the theatrical premiere of the 1989 film at the Roxie Cinema Friday February 23 through Thursday March 1 1989. Manhattan newlyweds portrayed by Christopher Rich and Amanda Plummer set out of New York for Hoboken commencing a series of mishaps and misadventures. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with tape shadows along the vertical margins. Roxie Cinema unknown
1962ref. 148348N.p.: N.p. 1962. Four vintage French lobby cards from the 1962 film. "Consortium Pathe" stamp on versos. Two Corsican criminal families are at war with each other in Paris. Set in Paris. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Pinholes at corners and light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 160810Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1958. Vintage banner poster for the 1958 film. Based on the 1957 nonfiction book "The Naked Warriors" by Commander Francis Douglas Fane about the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit beginning with its inception near the end of World War II through it's utilization in the Korean War. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with light soiling overall foxing to the left margin a 1.5 inch closed tear to the bottom center margin several pinholes throughout and a 1.5 inch closed tear to the center with corresponding rubbing and creasing between the a and r of "Warrior". Otherwise bright and unfaded. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1968ref. 161721N.p.: William Mishkin Motion Pictures 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Aspiring boxer Johnny Longo must choose between Rose a prostitute who has used her mob connections to further his career or Rita a once famous actress now addicted to heroin. A film presumed lost with only a 20-minute German dubbed reel known to exist. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. William Mishkin Motion Pictures unknown
1968ref. 167741N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1968 sexploitation film showing a topless Annette Johnson. Provenance stamp on the verso. A playboy is framed for the murder of a girl he met at a discotheque and finds himself drawn into the seedy underworld of London. Shot on location in Brighton England. 8 x 10.25 inches. About Fine. BFI B1106. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 166246Shepperton: CWJ Associates / CCTV 1980. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1969 British film directed by Alastair Reid and starring Diana Dors. A wealthy Jewish doctor and his wife who cannot have children decide to pretend that the wife is pregnant while secretly hiring a surrogate but bump up against trouble when they realize the child will not be born Jewish. Gray tall wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Barbara Jago noted as First Draft undated. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. CWJ Associates / CCTV unknown
1987ref. 163719Burbank CA: Touchstone Pictures 1987. Vintage reference photograph from the 1987 film showing director Barry Levinson talking with actor Robin Williams on the set. A wildly successful war comedy loosely based on the experiences of real-life serviceman Adrian Cronauer about an irreverent Armed Forces Radio Service disc jockey in Saigon. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Williams. Shot on location in Bangkok and Phuket Thailand. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Touchstone Pictures unknown
1988ref. 151501N.p.: N.p. 1988. Two vintage borderless satin-finish reference photographs from the 1988 film. A moody atmospheric masterpiece of Hungarian cinema following a depressed man and his bleak solitary existence which is brightened only by his love for a torch singer at a local bar. Set and shot on location in Hungary. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 148353Paris: Darmon 1981. Six vintage French color lobby cards from the 1981 film. Based on the 1964 novel "Pop. 1280" by Jim Thompson reset from the West Texas oil boom town of the novel to colonized 1938 French West Africa. In a small French West African village Lucien Cordier Philippe Noiret is the only policeman. Abused by his superiors insulted by local business leaders fancying the lovely but married Rose Isabelle Huppert whose husband beats her in the street and humiliated by his unfaithful wife Stephane Audran-Lucien will soon reach a breaking point. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set in French West Africa shot on location in Senegal. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 106. Grant France. Darmon unknown
1935ref. 164466Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1935. Five vintage photographs from the 1935 film including three double weight reference photographs one on-the-set and two test Photographs Photographers one of Joan Bennett and one of Billie Burke. All five photographs with a studio stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones on the versos and four with mimeo snipes on the same. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. A wealthy patriarch is continuously irritated and dismayed by his family's outrageous behavior. After winding up in prison for tax evasion he befriends his cellmate a bootlegger and fellow tax evader whom he names as executor of his estate upon his release. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall one with light creasing and edgewear. Columbia Pictures unknown
1926ref. 171412N.p.: N.p. 1926. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1926 film showing actress Billie Dove. Distribution stamp on the verso. After the death of his father at the hands of a bloody pirate gang a nobleman infiltrates the gang and becomes a buccaneer himself quietly seeking revenge. The third feature to be filmed in early two-tone Technicolor first introduced in "The Toll of the Sea" 1922. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine lightly toned with faint soil at the bottom right corner of the margin. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1946ref. 159187Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1946. Vintage studio still photograph of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire from the 1946 film. With provenance stamps on the verso. A man hosting a radio broadcast is telling his life story mostly about himself and a friend trying to make it big after World War I-until both men fall for the same woman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some pin holes along the edges. Paramount Pictures unknown
1957ref. 164746Universal City: Universal-International 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film both showing actor Tony Curtis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one. An opportunistic busboy at a resort gambles his way into high society where he falls in love with a wealthy but disinterested young heiress. Director Blake Edwards' third directorial effort. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Set in Wisconsin shot on location at Lake Arrowhead and Lake Tahoe California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Universal-International unknown
1968ref. 162020N.p.: Inter-American Film Distributors 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Provenance stamps and labels variously on the verso of each. Two vice detective trade stories of their sleazy encounters unaware that a French novelist is eavesdropping in hopes of ideas for his latest novel. Shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Vinegar Syndrome 28. Inter-American Film Distributors unknown
1952ref. 167549Universal City: Universal-International 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 Western film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso referring to the movie using its alternate release title "The Texas Man." Two brothers return to Texas after the Civil War one becoming a sheriff and the other embarking on a life of crime. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with adhesive residue on the verso corners. Pitts 1936. Universal-International unknown
