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1953ref. 148427Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1953. Vintage US lobby card for the 1953 film. Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband. Set and shot on location in New York. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light soil and light toning to the edges. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1976ref. 135943Los Angeles: Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures AIP 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on Paul Gallico's 1970 novel. Bernie Bonnelli Gould is a small-time talent agent down on his luck who discovers a boxing kangaroo named Matilda. Hoping to gain recognition and income he schedules a fight between the kangaroo and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. The fight attracts the attention of the local mob boss who wants total control of the marsupial and the attention of animal activists looking to stop cruelty to animals. Set in New York shot on location in California New York and Nevada. Illustrated titled wrappers with glassine cover on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 15 1976 with credits for novelist Gallico and screenwriter Galfas. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1968ref. 161749N.p.: Joseph Brenner Associates 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Argentinian film. Released in Argentina as "La cigarra no es un bicho" The Cicada is Not a Bug. Provenance stamps and labels on the versos. Six couples arrive at a Buenos Aires hostel called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of an outbreak of bubonic plague-leading to sex in every imaginable combination. Shot on location in Buenos Aires. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Joseph Brenner Associates unknown
1971ref. 161546N.p.: MDA Film 1971. Six studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Five photographs with provenance stamps on the versos one of which is on a label obscuring an older provenance stamp. After an artist's suicide friends and lovers share their memories of him most of whom are convinced he would never have killed himself and that one of them had something to do with his demise. Set in and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. MDA Film unknown
1972ref. 135242Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1972 French film "La course du lievre a travers les champs" release in the US as "And Hope to Die." Featured is a rare still of director Clement brandishing a rifle and a still of actor Trintignant contemplating the true value of a ten-dollar bill. Loosely based on David Goodis' 1954 seminal hardboiled novel "Black Friday" a paperback original. A French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of criminals in the midst of kidnapping the mentally-challenged daughter of a rival crimelord. The plan goes accordingly until the girl accidentally dies. Shot on location in Quebec Canada and Hauts-de-Seine France. Both stills 7 x 9.25 inches borderless as issued. Ink annotations on the versos else Near Fine overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1966ref. 155023Universal City: Universal Television 1966. Draft script for the 1967 television movie originally aired on February 25 1967 on NBC. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript pencil annotations on three leaves. A suburban couple discover they have been used as money laundering pawns for a powerful crime syndicate and decide to try to break away from the cartel. Shot on location in Sleepy Hollow and New York City New York. Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated June 13 1966 with credits for director David Lowell Rich and screenwriter A.J. Russell. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal Television unknown
1990ref. 151772London: Film Manifesto Sales 1990. Vintage pressbook for the 1990 film. Based on the 1989 novel by Barry Gifford. Young lovers Sailor Nicolas Cage and Lula Laura Dern go on the run from Lula's domineering mother Diane Ladd but soon run out of money forcing Sailor to return to his past criminal dealings. David Lynch's fifth feature film a love letter to the Wizard of Oz Elvis Presley and road movies. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Shot on location in Los Angeles Colton and Pasadena California in New Orleans Louisiana and in El Paso Texas. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Film Manifesto Sales unknown
1998ref. 171263Santa Monica: Steven Bochco Productions 1998. Vintage Draft script for Season 1 Episode 17 of the 1997-1998 television series. Originally aired March 9 1998 on CBS. This short-lived procedural followed the uniformed police officers at a Brooklyn precinct. In this episode tensions are high at the precinct following one of the officers acting as an informant for Internal Affairs. Winner of an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for its Pilot episode. Set in Brooklyn. White titled self-wrappers lacking rear wrapper production No. C117 dated February 9 1998 with credits for screenwriters Doug Palau and Nicholas Wootton and director Marc Buckland. Title page integral with front wrapper. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Steven Bochco Productions unknown
1980ref. 166551New York: Joseph E. Levine Productions 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film circa 1980. Not to be confused with the 1978 television movie starring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. Title page present undated with credits for Shaber and story writer Paul Gallico. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. Joseph E. Levine Productions unknown
1962ref. 159040N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Angie Dickinson from the 1962 film. Based on Irving Fineman's 1932 novel "Lovers Must Learn." After being fired for giving a student her copy of a romance novel a woman decides to move to Rome where she finds a job at a bookstore and begins a romance with a newly single Italian man. Set and shot on location in Alto Adige Tuscany Rome and Bolzano Italy. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 161865N.p.: Maturpix 1977. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1976 French film. Three photographs all with provenance stamps on the verso. Widely regarded as a classic of French adult cinema. Three young women recover in a hospital after failed suicide attempts when they are approached by the mysterious Maude who proposes they come to her country house. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Maturpix unknown
1977ref. 156017N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Dino Risi and actress Anicée Alvina on the set of the 1977 film. Stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel "Un'anima persa" by Giovanni Arpino. An amateur painter discovers that his aunt and uncle's run-down mansion is home to a number of strange and macabre secrets. Risi's second adaptation of Arpino's novel following "Profumo di donna" in 1974. Set and shot on location in Venice. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 166464N.p.: N.p. 1975. Rainbow Revision Final Draft script for the ninth episode of the 1975-1976 ABC television series which aired on November 22 1975. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played "Candy" with an ink annotation of his name and character name on the front wrapper. "Matt Helm" premiered as a two hour self-titled ABC television film on May 7 1975 and the series ran for one season with thirteen episodes from September 20 1975 through January 3 1976. Loosely based on the character created by Donald Hamilton in his 1960 novel "Death of a Citizen." Anthony Franciosa stars as the titular character a former secret agent who opens a private detective business. In this episode Helm clears a businessman of murder charges before discovering evidence that may point to the man's guilt. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated October 2 1975. Title page present dated October 2 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Michael Fisher and story by Stanley Roberts. 79 leaves with last page of text numbered "67-68." Mixed duplication method mimeograph and xerographic duplication but all vintage rectos only with yellow blue pink green and salmon revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/6/75 and 10/13/75. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 160551N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 Canadian film showing actors Jayne Eastwood and Doug McGrath. Widely considered one of the most influential Canadian films of all time about two young men who leave their small home in Nova Scotia for the promise of riches and better living in Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1923ref. 171351Beverly Hills CA: D.W. Griffith Productions / United Artists 1923. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1923 film showing Mae Marsh and Ivor Novello. "Made in USA" stamp on the verso. A wealthy aristocrat graduates from a seminary and decides to set out to see the world before taking charge of his parish. Traveling to New Orleans he finds himself falling in love with an impoverished orphaned woman. Shot on location in Florida and Louisiana including in New Iberia and St. Martinville. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned with pinholes at the corners. D.W. Griffith Productions / United Artists unknown
1949ref. 148303Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Collection of 16 vintage photographs from the 1949 film nine studio still photographs and seven promotional photographs of Paul Douglas Linda Darnell and Celeste Holm. Based on the story "Two Can Sing" originally titled "Career in C Major" by James M. Cain a story originally serialized in American magazine in 1938 then published in the 1943 collection "Three of Kind" along with "Double Indemnity". Leonard Borland Douglas indulges his wife Doris Holm in her ambition to becoming an opera star renting her a concert hall where he meets real opera singer Celia Carver Darnell who discovers Leonard has a wonderful baritone voice. 8 x 10 inches. Uniform fading on most otherwise Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1956ref. 162197N.p.: Chancellor Films 1956. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1956 film. Two photographs with provenance stamps on the versos A surprisingly nuanced depiction of three teenage girls from troubled homes who leave home in search of new lives in Los Angeles. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with even faint toning and pinholes and one with light soiling. Chancellor Films unknown
1977ref. 138667Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. A sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain. Jill returns to her home in California with her mother where she sparks a romance with one of the locals. Set in Bishop California shot on location in Bishop California and Victoria British Columbia. Red titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper production No. 00460 and sticker indicating copy No. II dated May 3 1977. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Douglas Day Stewart and skier Jill Kinmont. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/17/77 and 5/18/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1963ref. 167790N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film showing Elizabeth Taylor as the titular pharaoh taking a bath. Newspaper clipping with date stamp annotations in manuscript pencil and provenance label on the verso. Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious bank-breaking venture the most expensive production ever made at the time and the first film to pair Taylor with Richard Burton beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. Set in Egypt and Rome and shot on location in Spain and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1938ref. 173115N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film. A professor who is working on translating the ancient Egyptian tablets of Neferus fears he will face the same fate as he falls in love with an aspiring actress while continuously getting caught up in strange circumstances. Set in Los Angeles shot on location in Los Angeles and Kernville CA. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 153194N.p.: N.p. 1928. Reference photograph from the 1928 silent film struck circa 1950s showing director and actor Erich von Stroheim in a tender moment with Fay Wray. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso noting the film's title and the names of the photograph subjects. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Stroheim's runaway production was halted after nine months of shooting by producer Pat Powers having gone nearly $1 million over budget with an edited running time of over four hours. After a disastrous preview Paramount decided to release two films from the footage as was Stroheim's original intent with the second part entitled "The Honeymoon" now lost. The film follows Prince Nicki an impoverished aristocrat who is in love with a beautiful but poor innkeeper's daughter but is forced to marry the daughter of a wealthy factory owner. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registy. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 153707N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced television episode. Incomplete as issued. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1925 short story about a young man dealing with discontent and malaise while living with his family after returning from World War I. An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in Oklahoma. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for story writer Ernest Hemingway and screenwriter Larry Cohen. 13 leaves not numbered. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. N.p. unknown
1940ref. 148233Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1940 film one with "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1937 play "Parfumerie." Klara Novak Margaret Sullavan is the new employee at the Matuschek and Company store and Alfred Kralik James Stewart their best salesman can't stand each other unaware they're falling in love through the post as anonymous pen pals. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1999. Set in Budapest. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at corners one with two small pieces of paper tape at top pinholes on verso. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1968ref. 162560N.p.: Nordisk Tonefilm 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1968 Swedish film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the verso one with two labels obscuring a previous provenance stamp. One of a number of international films in the 1960s produced by Radley Metzger as noted on these photographs that today show no credit for him. Originally released in Sweden as Lejonsommar the film was released world-wide under the title "Summer of the Lion" and in the US as "Vibration." Sven-Bertil Taube stars as a frustrated writer who travels to an island off the coast of Sweden and becomes involved with Essy Persson as a sexy young temptress. Shot on location in Gotlands län Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a wax pencil annotation on the top right else Near Fine. Nordisk Tonefilm unknown
1984ref. 166528Beverly Hills CA: Warner Brothers Television 1984. Rainbow Revision Final Draft script for the tenth episode of the second season of the Emmy Award-winning CBS television series which aired on December 10 1984. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with the pencil annotations of his name the character name "Anatole Yulanovski" and the page and scene numbers on which his character appears on the front wrapper with manuscript pencil annotations on five pages underlining his character. Laid in is a call sheet printed on the recto and verso with copied annotations dated "November 14 1984." Of note Dimitri is not credited as being in this episode on IMDB and the character of "Anatoli Ulanovsky" is credited as being played by actor Gerry Gibson. Created by Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as the titular characters a divorced housewife and a secret agent with whom she's fallen in love who both end up working for a secret government agency. The series premiered on CBS on October 3 1983 and aired for 88 episodes for four seasons ending on May 28 1987. In this episode Billy Mel Stewart is kidnapped and the agency is put on alert while Lee Boxleitner and Amanda Jackson work with a Soviet agency to locate a bomb to prevent World War 3. Orange titled wrappers noted as REVISED SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated October 30 1984. Title page present dated November 2 1984 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Rudolph Borchert. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green buff and cherry revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/2/84 and 11/16/84. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers Television unknown
