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1970ref. 149020N.p.: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Nature-boy shepherd Serafino Adriano Celentano inherits his aunt Gesuina's Nerina Montagnani fortune and proceeds to frivolously spend it on family and friends. After destroying a new convertible his uncle Agenore Saro Urzi files to have him declared mentally incompetent. Shot on location in Marche Lazio and Abruzzo Italy. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with small split in crease pinholes to top corners and manuscript annotation on verso visible on recto. Columbia Pictures unknown
1942ref. 130516Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. First Draft Continuity for the 1942 film. This is a pre-production continuity not to be confused with a post-production continuity. The "other woman" in this early 1940s Twentieth Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily Virginia Gilmore faithful secretary to master architect Henry Summers James Ellison. Hoping to trap her boss into marriage Emily begins sending "mash notes" to Henry purportedly from a mysterious female admirer. She then coerces her old pal Ralph Dan Duryea to pose as her jealous Southern-fried boy friend of the nonexistent letter-writer. Poor Henry convinced that Ralph is the gangster who's been threatening him with bodily harm takes off for parts unknown. Our heroine spends the rest of the picture chasing Henry until he finally catches her Hal Erickson Rovi. From the AFI Catalog: "The working title of this film was 'Leap Year' also the title of Lamar Trotti's original story. According to a September 4 1941 memo in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department located at the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library Trotti wrote the story "sometime ago" and sold it to the studio for one dollar when producer Walter Morosco decided to make it as a "low budget picture." Although the legal records indicate that Jerry Sackheim worked on a screenplay for the picture the extent of his contribution to the completed film has not been determined. Orange titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 185 and production No. 730 dated June 6 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 6 1942 noted as 1st Draft Continuity with a sole credit for screenwriter Jungmeyer. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with revision pages on blue stock dated variously between 6/10/42 and 6/20/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967ref. 149453Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Richard Thorpe and actors Angie Dickinson and Glenn Ford looking over a script on the set of the 1967 Western film. With a printed mimeo snipe noting the film's original title "The Pistolero of Red River" which has been crossed out and retitled "The Last Challenge" in manuscript ink annotation affixed to the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations and a mimeo snipe. Based on John Sherry's 1966 novel "Pistolero's Progress." A young gunslinger heads into a small western town with the intention of dueling the local sheriff who is famed for his skill and speed with a gun. Thorpe's final film concluding a decades-long affiliation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shot on location in California and Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few light creases to the top right corner. Pitts 2185. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1979ref. 145288Los Angeles: California Pictures 1979. Collection of 51 vintage borderless color photographs from the 1979 film. Also included are eight large format negatives for photographs in the collection. Two US Navy divers taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines are forced to search for millions of dollars worth of silver that the retreating American forces dumped into Manila Bay. Set and shot in the Philippines. 41 photographs 8 x 10 inches. Ten photographs 5 x 4 inches. Two negatives 8 x 10 inches. Five negatives 5 x 4 inches. Overall Near Fine. Parish and Hill Black Action Films 159. California Pictures unknown
1961ref. 134942Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1961. Final White script for the 1962 film "Escape from Zahrain" here under the film's working title "Zahrain" with ESCAPE FROM in manuscript ink just above it. Notations in manuscript ink and pencil on the front wrapper recto and verso though the associations are unknown. Based on Michael Barrett's 1960 novel "Appointment in Zahrain." A wanted revolutionary Brynner and his gang including a protege played by Sal Mineo travel through the desert in an attempt to elude the Arab security forces. A story set in the Middle East shot on location in the Mojave Desert in California. Self wrappers noted as FINAL WHITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 122 and production No. 11541 dated June 6 1961 with credits for producer-director Neame and screenwriter Estridge. Title page integral with front wrapper. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication dated variously 6/5/61 and 6/6/61. Near Fine overall bound with two silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
ref. 51-7277Tokyo: Shinsei Katsusha October 1946. Original pictorial wraps. 18.2 x 25.8cm. 56pp.The Motion Picture Library was a pioneering bilingual film publication launched in Tokyo in post-WWII Japan 1946-1948. Aimed at bridging American pop culture and Japanese audiences it printed full English scripts actor profiles and bilingual synopses of imports like Casablanca. The emergence of these bilingual or heavily translated film resources during the mid-1940s marked a dramatic cultural shift. Following wartime censorship and the total ban of foreign films the sudden influx of Hollywood movies under the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers SCAP created a boom in cine-literacy. .“MÅshon pikuchÄ raiburarÄ«” wa dainijisekaitaisengo no Nihon 1946-nen 〜 1948-nen ni oite TÅkyÅ de sÅkan sa reta senku-tekina bairingaru eiga shuppan-monodeatta. Amerika no poppukaruchÄ to Nihon no kankyaku to no kakehashi to naru koto o mezashi dÅshi wa “Kasaburanka” nado no yunyū eiga ni tsuite kanzen'na eigo kyakuhon haiyū no purofīru soshite nichiei taiyaku no arasuji o keisai shite ita. 1940-Nendai nakaba ni okeru kÅshita bairingaru aruiwa Åhabana hon'yaku o hodokoshita eiga kanren shiryÅ no tÅjÅ wa gekitekina bunka-teki tenkan o shÅchÅ suru monodeatta. Senji-chū no ken'etsu ya gaikoku eiga no zenmen kinshi o hete rengÅ-koku saikÅ shirei-kan sÅ shirei-bu SCAP no tÅchi-ka de Hariuddo eiga ga totsujotoshite tairyÅ ni ryūnyū shita koto wa eiga riterashī eiga o yomitoku chikara e no kanshin o ikkini takameru būmu o makiokoshita nodearu.『モーション・ピクãƒãƒ£ãƒ¼ãƒ»ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ–ラリーã€ã¯ã€ç¬¬äºŒæ¬¡ä¸–界大戦後ã®æ—¥æœ¬ï¼ˆ1946年〜1948年）ã«ãŠã„ã¦ã€æ±äº¬ã§å‰µåˆŠã•ã‚ŒãŸå…ˆé§†çš„ãªãƒã‚¤ãƒªãƒ³ã‚¬ãƒ«æ˜ 画出版物ã§ã‚ã£ãŸã€‚アメリカã®ãƒãƒƒãƒ—カルãƒãƒ£ãƒ¼ã¨æ—¥æœ¬ã®è¦³å®¢ã¨ã®æž¶ã‘æ©‹ã¨ãªã‚‹ã“ã¨ã‚’目指ã—ã€åŒèªŒã¯ã€Žã‚«ã‚µãƒ–ランカã€ãªã©ã®è¼¸å…¥æ˜ ç”»ã«ã¤ã„ã¦ã€å®Œå…¨ãªè‹±èªžè„šæœ¬ã€ä¿³å„ªã®ãƒ—ãƒãƒ•ã‚£ãƒ¼ãƒ«ã€ãã—ã¦æ—¥è‹±å¯¾è¨³ã®ã‚らã™ã˜ã‚’掲載ã—ã¦ã„ãŸã€‚1940年代åŠã°ã«ãŠã‘ã‚‹ã€ã“ã†ã—ãŸãƒã‚¤ãƒªãƒ³ã‚¬ãƒ«ã‚ã‚‹ã„ã¯å¤§å¹…ãªç¿»è¨³ã‚’æ–½ã—ãŸæ˜ 画関連資料ã®ç™»å ´ã¯ã€åŠ‡çš„ãªæ–‡åŒ–的転æ›ã‚’象徴ã™ã‚‹ã‚‚ã®ã§ã‚ã£ãŸã€‚戦時ä¸ã®æ¤œé–²ã‚„å¤–å›½æ˜ ç”»ã®å…¨é¢ç¦æ¢ã‚’経ã¦ã€é€£åˆå›½æœ€é«˜å¸ä»¤å®˜ç·å¸ä»¤éƒ¨ï¼ˆSCAP）ã®çµ±æ²»ä¸‹ã§ãƒãƒªã‚¦ãƒƒãƒ‰æ˜ ç”»ãŒçªå¦‚ã¨ã—ã¦å¤§é‡ã«æµå…¥ã—ãŸã“ã¨ã¯ã€æ˜ ç”»ãƒªãƒ†ãƒ©ã‚·ãƒ¼ï¼ˆæ˜ ç”»ã‚’èªã¿è§£ã力）ã¸ã®é–¢å¿ƒã‚’一気㫠Tokyo: Shinsei Katsusha , October , 1946 paperback
1960ref. 148770N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Laurence Olivier and Brenda de Banzie from the 1960 British film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1957 play written at the behest of actor Laurence Olivier who reprised his role as Archie Rice an embittered third-rate music hall performer facing the dissipation of his industry and personal life. Olivier was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Shot on location in Morecambe Lancashire and West Yorkshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with layout annotations to top corners in manuscript wax pencil. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 130703Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1968. Third Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 television movie. A marshal returns home to find his town has been nearly wiped out by Mexican bandits and with the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother seeks to hunt them down. Set in New Mexico territory shot on location in Utah. Rust colored titled wrappers noted as Third Revised Final Draft on the front wrapperdated September 24 1968 with credit for screenwriter Savage. 127 leaves mechanical duplication with blue white yellow pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-30-68 and 10-24-68. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Reyes 131. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
1944ref. 128914Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in manuscript pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment featuring spiritualists a haunted house and a murder by suffocation in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly the film's failure superseded its potential even with all the right elements of a chilling melodrama. ChaneyJr. plays attorney Wayne Fletcher who is engaged in an affair with his secretary Donna Joyce who is tied to a rich family. He arrives home after a late night at the office to discover his wife has been murdered a death by asphyxiation with Wayne as the suspect. With the help psychic Julian Julian Bromberg the police investigate the murder. The psychic's motives are questionable but he says he can contact Wayne's dead wife. At a seance to reach Vivian's spirit the reluctant Wayne hears what he thinks is her voice but discovers Julian Julian in the shadows and accuses him of conspiracy. After several sleepless nights haunted by the voice of his lost wife Wayne finally "gives in" to her spirit and attempts to kill Donna with a pillow but is overpowered by police and leaps from a window to his death per his wife's instructions. Gray card titled wrappers lacking rear wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7285 dated February 19 1945 with credits for screenwriter Bricker and story writer Babcock. 106 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good lacking rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown
1978ref. 161019Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1978. Complete set of eight color studio still photographs for the 1978 film. Stamp of Consolidated Theatre Services of Canada on the versos. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" 1967 with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway driver whose elusive escapes torment a self-assured police detective driving the detective to the brink of obsession. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Silver and Ward US Neo-Noir. Spicer US. Twilight Time 53. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
ref. 232448 September no year. On letterhead of 23 Bruton Street W.1. London. Maschwitz wrote the lyrics to 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' and 'These Foolish Things' and was nominated for an oscar for co-writing the screenplay of 'Goodbye Mr Chips'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. Twenty-nine lines of text. In fair condition lightly aged. Folded once. Maschwitz begins by congratulating him 'on a really enthralling book! Loved every page of it!' With reference to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree he explains that the previous day he 'had a talk with old Dennis Grayson who with Mrs Corey Wright is one of Tree's executors. He told me that they had recently opened a dusty old Pall Mall Safe Deposit box containing masses of records etc of His Majesty's Theatre - the "complete works" from 1897 to 1917 and there was so much of interest among them'. Included is an item relating to Claude Rains: 'a call boy's note book with C. Rains written inside it in a boyish hand'. Grayson 'wondered whether you would be interested in doing a book on the Theatre. Of course it wouldn't make anything as grand as Drury Lane but certainly something grander than Daly's'. He makes a few suggestions about topics MP might wish to include in the book including the play 'Balalaika' with 'the cops coming for the backer on the opening night'. If MP is interested 'Grayson who lives up North and comes to town occasionally would be delighted to lunch you and tell you what he has. Let me know and I'll fix it'. MacQueen-Pope does not appear to have taken Grayson up on his offer unless the letter dates from before the 1947 publication of 'Carriages at Eleven'. 8 September [no year]. On letterhead of 23 Bruton Street, W.1. [London] unknown
ref. 34521939. French actor and dramatist 1885-1957. Dimensions roughly 7 inches by 9 inches. In good condition though somewhat grubby with 'SACHA GUITRY in 1939' in manuscript written in white ink on Guitry's collar. A striking head and shoulders portrait shot from below out of doors of Guitry staring intently ahead and to the left. He wears a white panama hat with black band a patterned tie dark shirt and grey jacket with specks. Gum marks from previous mounting around edges of reverse. See Images. 1939. unknown
1964ref. 170747N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing Frank A. Coe as Frankenstein's monster holding a nude woman. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An alien lands on Earth in order to kidnap the perfect human woman to use to create a race of servants for his home world. He finds the answer in the laboratory of mad scientist Dr. Breedlove. Originally titled "Dr. Breedlove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love" then retitled "Kiss Me Quick" in order to exploit Billy Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 161669N.p.: Boxoffice International 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 sexploitation film. All three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A fanciful account of the Marquis de Sade and the women who are irresistibly drawn to him. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Boxoffice International unknown
1949ref. 161687Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1949. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1949 film. In approaching the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1943 work director King Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques and focused on creating an expressionistic film one that literally echoed the architectural underpinnings of its characters' philosophies motives and ambitions. Unusual choices included modernist cinematography expressionistic set designs and wardrobe and having Rand herself write the heady screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1985ref. 161051N.p.: N.p. 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film both showing actress Melanie Griffith. A former boxer turned nightclub promoter joins together with a police detective to investigate a serial killer targeting strippers. Set in Manhattan and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 149472Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Alan Ladd in a dynamic pose with the image manipulated for effect from the 1959 film noir. Based on the 1956 novel by Hugh Wheeler under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin. A struggling artist Alan Ladd is accused of murdering his unstable alcoholic wife Carolyn Jones when she goes missing and must flee from the lynch mob forming amongst the townsfolk. Set in fictional Stoneville Connecticut shot on location in Woodstock and Thompson Connecticut and Framingham Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint toning at edges else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. United Artists unknown
1967ref. 152322London: The Rank Organization 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film showing director-actor Albert Finney. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of The Rank Organization. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A wealthy famous English writer with working class roots is forced to reconnect with his emotions and sense of humanity when he takes a trip to visit his estranged wife and son. Finney's first and only directorial attempt. Set and shot on location in London and Manchester. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased to the edges. The Rank Organization unknown
1971ref. 158638N.p.: Audubon Films 1971. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 US release of the 1970 West German film. A sexploitation film about a small-town girl who moves to the big city where she begins a career as a sex worker eventually falling in with a group of revolutionaries. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Audubon Films unknown
1995ref. 164081N.p.: My Heart Inc 1995. Draft script for the 1996 film copy with the manuscript marker annotation of copy number 73 on the title page. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Loosely inspired by the career of Carole King. Illeana Douglas stars as Edna Buxton an aspiring singer/songwriter from Philadelphia who hopes to make it in the music industry in the early 1960s. After changing her name to Denis Waverly and moving to New York she finds success as a songwriter in the Brill Building music scene. Featuring music written in the styles of the era by Burt Bacharach Elvis Costello Joni Mitchell Gerry Goffin and Jill Sobule. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 15 1995 with credits for screenwriter Allison Anders. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. My Heart, Inc unknown
1977ref. 171038N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film showing André Dussollier and Anémone covered in wires. A slapstick satire of modernism and government control about a French couple who are chosen by the Ministry of the Future to be the country's "model couple" and used as test subjects for the creation of a new updated city by the year 2000. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus moderately toned. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 161805N.p.: N.p. 1979. Draft script for an unproduced feature-length pilot episode of the 1979-1981 television series. Based on the 1925 comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan a science fiction and adventure series about a twentieth-century astronaut who wakes up 500 years in the future. "Bomber's Moon" was ultimately vetoed by show runner Glen A. Larson in favor of the pilot episode "Awakening" penned by Leslie Stevens. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Andrew J. Fenady. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 162550Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1975. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1975 film showing actress Melanie Griffith. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. One of the great and still unheralded neo-noirs of the 1970s and along with "The Conversation" 1974 one of Gene Hackman's finest performances. Arthur Penn's unusual career as a director began with "Mickey One" 1965 "The Chase" 1966 and "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967 three films that amounted to the dynamite under the bridge that was the remnants of the Hollywood studio system heralding the start of the New American Cinema. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert IV. Grant US. Hardy 243. Rosenbaum 1000. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown
1954ref. 157301N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1954 film. Stamp of the film's title in German on the verso. An exploitation film focusing on fashion models' diet plans and cosmetics regimens. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 164319N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing a nude Mimsy Farmer. Stamp of photographer Michel Ciment on the verso. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set and shot on location in Paris and Ibiza. 7.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1040. N.p. unknown
