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1964ref. 142333Buckinghamshire: British Lion Film Corporation 1964. Draft script for the 1964 film. Based on the 1960 novel of the same title by Douglas Hayes. A middle-aged stage actor moves from a conservative life in the provinces to the very center of Swinging London and tries to revitalize his career by performing in commercials. Set in London shot on location there. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Peter Yeldham and author Douglas Hayes. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. British Lion Film Corporation unknown
1956ref. 147087Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677 dated June 7 1956. Title page present dated June 7 1956 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate bound with two gold brads. Twilight Time 203. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1938ref. 147687Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period. Harebrained comedy wherein international golf champion Richard "Ricky" Carrington Jr. Ray Milland returns home to New York with his new Parisian wife Julie Olympe Bradna only to find his parents arranged a financially motivated marriage for him to his childhood friend the wealthy heiress Auriol Marsden Irene Hervey. Self wrappers front wrapper dated August 16 1938 rubber-stamped production No. 1569. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered J-10. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine saddle-stapled with two staples. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. Paramount Pictures unknown
1968ref. 140838N.p.: Wolper Pictures 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Based on the book of the same name by Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton. Based on the 1966 book by Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton in turn based on the true story of a specially trained unit of misfit American and Canadian soldiers given the seemingly impossible task to capture Mt. La Difensa and prove their merit. Set in America England and Italy shot on location in Utah and Italy. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1/13/67 noted as Final Revised with credits for William Roberts. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Rubber stamped on the title page #79. Wolper Pictures unknown
1980ref. 146511Berlin: CCC-Film CCC-Filmkunst 1980. Draft script for the 1983 German film directed by Andrzej Wajda. With a few small manuscript pencil annotations mostly regarding a character's name change and changes to pagination. Laid in with the script is a handwritten letter discussing films with KO-Productions. Text in German. Missing page 59 likely as used or issued. Based on the 1980 novel. In 1983 a middle-aged man returns to his hometown village with his teenage son in an attempt to discover the details of his mother's affair with a Polish prisoner of war during World War II. Set in Brombach shot on location in Baden-Wurttemberg and Berlin. Yellow titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present dated Januar 1980 with credits for screenwriters Rolf Hochhuth and Werner Jorg Luddecke. 216 leaves with last page of text numbered 210. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst] unknown
1990ref. 149920N.p.: N.p. 1990. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1990 Polish film one showing director Andrzej Wajda the other showing Wajda in conversation with actor Wojciech Pszoniak. The final days in the life of Polish-Jewish humanitarian author and educator Janusz Korczak who founded an orphanage in Warsaw for Jewish children and was eventually killed while attempting to protect the orphans during World War II. Set and shot on location in Lodz and Warsaw Poland. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 149387Paris: Albina Productions 1975. Vintage borderless photograph of director Andrzej Zulawski working with actress Romy Schneider on the set of the 1975 film. With the stamp of S.A. Telemagazine on the verso along with a few contemporary manuscript ink annotations. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who has resorted to appearing in porn films to make a living. Falling for her he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III" and give her a role but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Albina Productions unknown
1969ref. 149414Munich: Constantin-Film 1969. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 German release of the US film. With printed mimeo snipes on the verso. Andy Warhol's final film an attempt to represent sex between a man and a woman Warhol superstars Louis Waldon and Viva respectively as naturalistically as possible. A groundbreaking influential production insofar as it was the first adult film to receive wide theatrical release in the US. Set and shot on location in New York. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Constantin-Film unknown
1968ref. 134291New York: Factory Films 1968. Two vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1968 film. Both photographs feature the film's lead actor Viva one a head shot that is a variant on the familiar image used on the cover of Viva's later autobiography "Superstar" the other a waist-up shot. 8 x 10 inches white border with film credits at the bottom margin of the recto along with mention of the film's first distributor Sherpix. Fine. Factory Films unknown
1964ref. 172060Universal City: Universal Pictures 1964. Vintage photograph from the 1964 film showing Angie Dickinson posed next to a race car sporting high-waisted pedal pushers a cuffed white shirt and sky-high hair. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1927 short story by Ernest Hemingway. The final film performance by Ronald Reagan and the second Hollywood adaptation of Hemingway's story following the 1946 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1997ref. 167773N.p.: N.p. 1997. Revised Fourth Draft script for the 1999 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations on three pages. Based on Bari Wood's 1993 novel "Doll's Eyes" about a housewife who discovers she has a clairvoyant connection to a serial killer. Shot on location in Amherst Easthampton Florence Huntington Northampton Northfield Southampton Williamsburg and Whately Massachusetts in Fontana Dam North Carolina in New Castle New Hampshire. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/19/1997 noted as 4th DRAFT REWRITE with credits for director Neil Jordan and screenwriter Bruce Robinson. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 140965London: Romulus 1954. Draft script for the 1954 film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. Based on the play of the same name by Campbell and Dorothy Christie. A court martial process delves into why an officer embezzled funds from his unit. Released in the US as "Court Martial." Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 10 1954 with credits for screenwriter John Hunter and playwrights Dorothy and Campbell Christie. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Romulus unknown
1980ref. 133617New York: New World Pictures 1980. Draft Agency script for the 1980 film. Adapted for the screen by noted screenwriter Frederic Raphael based on his 1973 novel. A woman begins an affair with her late husband's mistress after his death using each other to cope with the grief of his loss. Black titled wrappers with the William Morris Agency logo on the front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Frederic Raphael. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Raphael. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
1960ref. 144084Rome: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Collection of 64 vintage borderless single weight film still photographs for the 1960 Italian film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos five with Contino's rubberstamp and two are dupes made by the original developer. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. 7 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller. Very Good plus overall with curling and a few scattered creases. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown
1969ref. 160695Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film both showing Tina Chen and Arlo Guthrie. Based on Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1966ref. 149376Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 film showing director Arthur Hiller inspecting camera angles for actors Natalie Wood and Ian Bannen in between takes while filming on location in Central Park for the 1966 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A bored kleptomaniac housewife decides to steal 60 thousand dollars from the bank where her husband works. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1982ref. 149977Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1982. Vintage borderless reference studio still photograph from the 1982 film. "1982 20th Century-Fox" stamp on verso. Based on the 1978 Frank De Felitta novel about a real case of an alleged haunting. In 1974 Culver City Doris Bither claimed the ghosts of three men were raping her. De Felitta was present during the investigation with lead researcher and parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff who served as technical advisor on "The Entity" as well as being represented in the film by the character Gene Kraft. "The Entity" is one of the few possession films that ends with White Science and Black Magic in a draw. Critics of the time dismissed the film but it still became something of a cult classic that evoked "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist." Martin Scorsese considers "The Entity" as one of the greatest horror films of all time. In a Halloween themed contribution to the website "The Daily Beast" 2013 "The Entity" scored fourth place in Scorsese's list. Shot on location in El Segundo and Santa Monica California. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Scorcese The Dark Eleven. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 147286London: Winkast Film Productions 1970. Two scripts a first draft script and a draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on two pages one with what appears to be a question mark and another with a question mark and a strike. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. English novelist and playwright Barry England is best known for his first novel the 1968 thriller "Figures in a Landscape" made into the 1970 Joseph Losey film of the same name starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell. 1900 in the Arizona border town of Berwick a group of thieves and entertainers are hatching a plan to break into the vault at the bank. The sheriff and mayor are on guard and everyone is suspicious of the weathered inscrutable old Jed Bounty. First draft screenplay: Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Draft screenplay: Orange untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Winkast Film Productions unknown
1943ref. 136398Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Revised Final Draft script for the 1944 film "Bermuda Mystery" here under the working title "Murder in Bermuda." A comedic mystery based on a story by John Larkin. Constance Martin Rutherford is convinced that her uncle's death in Bermuda was a murder. The authorities in Bermuda declare he died of natural causes so Connie travels to New York to inform her uncles WWI buddies who have all cashed in their collective "death pool." In New York Connie hires Steve Carramond Foster to help her investigate the death despite the fact he's set to get married the next day. Set briefly in Bermuda mostly in New York. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 8 and production No. 997 dated Dec. 16 1943. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated December 16 1943 noted as Final Script with a credit for screenwriter Darling. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/17/43. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1974ref. 149715N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless color reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actress Miou-Miou. Based on director Bertrand Blier's 1972 novel a controversial comedy following two petty criminals as they roam with abandon deflowering women stealing and behaving badly in general. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1948ref. 149885Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1948. Vintage studio still photograph of director Billy Wilder and actress Marlene Dietrich inspecting a film strip on the set of the 1948 film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists a US army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer. Unbeknownst to the congresswoman however the captain and the entertainer are engaged in an affair leading the captain to seduce the congresswoman in an attempt to hide his conflicting motives. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light wear to the bottom left corner. Selby US. Selby UK. Paramount Pictures unknown
1976ref. 146256N.p.: N.p. 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. With a manuscript ink notation on the title page reading "draft completed 10/8/76." Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring a retired and reclusive actress back into the spotlight. Told in flashback beginning with her suicide-by-train. The fifth and final pairing of director Billy Wilder and actor William Holden who began their association in 1950 with the classic "Sunset Blvd." 1950. "Fedora" has been seen as a companion piece to that film. White titled self wrappers with credits for screenwriters Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with light toning and soil bound with two gold brads. Eureka Masters of Cinema 147. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 147574Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1963. Collection of 18 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film. Based on French playwright Alexandre Breffort's 1956 stage musical about the torrid romance between a French policeman and a prickly popular street prostitute. Actor Shirley MacLaine who traveled with Jack Lemmon to real Paris brothels to research their roles was nominated for an Academy Award and the film won an Academy Award for Best Music. Set in Paris. One photo borderless the others with a standard white margin. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. United Artists unknown
1984ref. 140554Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. With a few annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Rob Salinger Moore works as a television reporter and his wife Micki Reinking is a lawyer who is having difficulty getting pregnant to the chagrin of Rob. While working Rob meets a cellist Maude Irving who he begins dating without mentioning his wife. She soon becomes pregnant as well as his current wife and he ends up marrying Maude as well. To hide his bigamy he uses work as an excuse to spend days with one woman and nights with another. The women eventually find out about each other as they go into labor at the same time and are at the same hospital on the same floor. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper is present dated March 7 1984 with a credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Later generation photocopy with revision pages throughout dated variously between March 6 1984 and March 22 1984. Pages Very Good plus wrapper missing bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1984ref. 149381Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1984. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph of director Bob Fosse on the set of the 1983 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso dated 20/1/84 along with the stamp of Universal Pictorial Press. Based on Teresa Carpenter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice article "Death of a Playmate" which traced the unusual circumstances of Playboy model Dorothy Stratten's death at the hands of her narcissistic husband and manager Paul Snider in 1980. Fosse's final film released a few years before his death in 1987. Set and shot on location in Vancouver B.C. New York and Los Angeles. 6 x 8 inches. Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
