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ref. 147418N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Final Draft script for an unproduced play. A reincarnation narrative focusing on a motley group of Californian academics grappling with the newfound discovery of their past lives. Set in California. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Tom McGowan. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with a light vertical crease near the binding internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 142219N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in manuscript ink. Four characters swept up in the Mexican revolution go from no possibility of ever meeting each other to their fates becoming intertwined. Set in Mexico. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present no with credit to the screenwriter. 224 leaves with last page of text numbered 217. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 135621Spain: Ellis Films 1962. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the Spanish release circa 1962 of the 1961 Italian-French film. Owner name rubber-stamped on the verso in Spanish. Pictured is Claudia Cardinale Renato Baldini and Angela Portaluri former "Miss World" competitor. Valerio Zurlini's second feature film and his second credit as director after several short documentaries released in Italy and his feature directorial debut "Violent Summer" 1959. Alda Cardinale is a discarded girlfriend who takes to the road with her suitcase. A slick hunk picks her up and take her to his home where she meets his younger brother Lorenzo Perrin. The two share an unspoken but clearly evident mutual appreciation of one another Lorenzo's esteem perhaps more romantic than Alda's flighty acknowledgment of his emotional maturity. Set in Parma Italy shot on location there and in Riccioni and Rome Italy. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and faint creases at the corners. Ellis Films unknown
1979ref. 153158Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A working-class Italian-American cobbler with dreams of becoming a classical singer falls in love with an upper-crust cellist. Set in Boston. Mustard titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers. Title page present dated February 9 1979 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Victor Pisano. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1975ref. 141214N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for an unproduced play. An account of the spread of the Protestant Reformation and subsequent struggle against Catholic rule in France. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 with credit for playwright Victor Rosen. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a navy Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 149787N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced play. A light chamber comedy about an aging gay director whose attempts to maintain creative control over his newest production are thwarted by a ham-fisted millionaire who wants his nephew to be cast in the lead role in exchange for financial backing. Clear plastic and green titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1977 with credits for screenwriter Victor Rosen. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered III-32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine with a red Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 167557Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1959. Vintage publicity portrait photograph of Carolyn Craig from the 1959 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. An eccentric millionaire offers a substantial reward to anyone able to spend the entire night in the titular house on Haunted Hill. Basis for the 1999 remake starring Geoffrey Rush and Taye Diggs. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Exterior shots of the house were filmed at Los Angeles' Ennis Brown House originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a diagonal crease affecting the bottom left corner. Allied Artists unknown
ref. 140712Palos Verdes Peninsula CA: Capitol International Pictures. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Alex the playwright daughter of a famous actress is taking her mother's body to her homeland of Greece to bury her when she meets Kristo a married man whose wife is pregnant with his brother's child. They begin a serendipitous romance in Athens starting completely anew until everything starts to fall apart with Kristo's university friend trying to sleep with Alex until he reveals he is actually a homosexual the death of Kristo's brother and Alex's husband running into all of them at a party. Set in Athens. White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Walter Anton White. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered 164. Mechanical duplication Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Capitol International Pictures unknown
1960ref. 147008N.p.: N.p. 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript pencil annotations mostly revising spelling mistakes. When an aging musician meets a handsome younger man she sees the autumn romance as a way out of her stagnant life with her sister-but not all is as it seems. Screenwriter Warren Burton was better known as an actor for film and television most notably in "All My Children" from 1978-1979. Set in New York. Salmon titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Warren Burton. 38 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1942ref. 145119Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1942. Vintage double weight photograph of director Wells Root and actor Dan Dailey on the set of the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations and an studio stamp on the verso. Based on a series of short stories by Jennie Harris Olver published in the 1930s. Mokey Robert Blake an eight year old boy who recently lost his mother struggles to adapt to his new household. His father is largely absent and his stepmother doesn't care to understand him and is quick to become angry when he acts out. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1950ref. 144959Paris: Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions 1950. Vintage photograph of actress Claire Trevor and various members of the crew on the set of the 1950 film noir. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. US Police officer Madeleine Haley Claire Trevor goes undercover to get close to Pete Ritchie Raymond Burr the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico. Just as she meets Ritchie she is kidnapped by Johnny Macklin Fred MacMurray who unbeknownst to her is an undercover federal agent. Shot on location in Southern California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with three holes punched in the left margin. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions unknown
ref. 146397Los Angeles: Pomegranate Productions Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a Pomegranate Productions business card belonging to president Robert French stapled to the title page. When her abusive mother dies in a freak accident young Sylvia believes she's lucked out and will be able to finally live as a family with her caring stepfather. Nobody else will accept the mother's death as an accident however and even Sylvia begins to believe her stepfather is guilty fomenting discord between the two. Set in Los Angeles. Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter William J. Cassidy. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Pomegranate Productions unknown
1970ref. 141278N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a page from the "Independent Trade Reviews." While on their honeymoon a sailor and his Japanese wife get into an altercation with a drunk. Police intervene resulting in the wife being shot and the man sent to prison. Set in San Francisco. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter William Kozlenko. 54 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 161853N.p.: S.F. Film Distributors 1964. Vintage studio still photograph of Margaret Nolan from the US release of the 1964 British film. With provenance stamps on the verso. Vicki and Vera take their friend Carol on a tour around Windsor before introducing her to their nudist club. Shot on location in Windsor England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. S.F. Film Distributors unknown
1970ref. 138039Beverly Hills CA: Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink annotation on front wrapper indicating the title. A story set in Morocco during WWII about a Russian who smuggles guns and plans to sell them to a licensed arms dealer. Tan untitled studio wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter William Norton. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three silver brads. Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions unknown
ref. 142282N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film by the noted film director and screenwriter responsible for cult classics such as "There is No 13" 1974 "The Incredible Melting Man" 1977 "Van Nuys Blvd." 1979 "Galaxina" 1980 and "Exterminator 2" 1984. A young man finds himself living in an alternate reality set in the 15th century but with anachronistic aspects of a post-war dystopia. Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Williams Sachs. Title page present with credits for screenwriter William Sachs. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 137794Los Angeles: Paul Kohner 1982. Draft script for the 1987 West German film "Lang soll er leben" here under the English working title "More Than One Life." Agency copy in Paul Kohner Inc. wrappers. Screenwriter Mally was an actress in the 1970s starring in several German films and starred in German television throughout the 1980s and 1990s. A comedy set in Los Angeles in the mid 1970s with flashback scenarios to Prague during WWII and subplots involving theater and romance. White wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriter Mally and translator Dr. Harald O. Durenforth. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Paul Kohner unknown
1991ref. 137634Berlin Germany: Manfred Durniok Produktion 1991. Revised First Draft agency script for the 1991 film "Shattered" here under the working title "The Plastic Nightmare." German agency copy in wrappers crediting the "Film und and Fernsehen television Studios" in Berlin. Text in English. Based on Richard Neely's 1971 novel "The Plastic Nightmare." Dan Berenger is involved in an automobile accident leaving him with amnesia. He discovers that he is married to Judith Scacchi but enlists the aid of part-time PI Gus Hoskins to help him unravel his real life. A noirish thriller set in San Francisco shot on location there and in Oregon. White titled wrappers. Title page present undated noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Petersen and novelist Neely with a preceding half-title page. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographically reproduced with copied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a white plastic prong brad. Grant US. Spicer US. Manfred Durniok Produktion unknown
1978ref. 150785Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Complete set of eight vintage black and white color studio still photographs from the 1978 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Three adult sisters struggle to cope with the separation of their parents and their mother's subsequent mental decline. Director Woody Allen's first drama without comedic elements. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
2002ref. 146412N.p.: N.p. 2002. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young woman discusses her problems with her mentally ill mother her desire to save the whales and her absent fiance in therapy-but all is not as it seems. White lacking wrappers. Title page present dated 3/16/02 noted as Rough Draft with credits for screenwriter Zack Kaplan. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 17. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a spring binder clip at the top left corner. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 298558Remus Films 1956. Photograph. 7 original B/W publicity photograph 7.8 x 9.8 inches. Photographs of Sydney James William Hartnell Renee Houston Dick Bentley 2 poses Brian Rix and Tommy Cooper. Near fine copies. Identification of actor written in ink on rear. Pen indentation visible with raking light on photograph surface. Remus Films unknown
ref. 22085On letterhead of Tanners Mead Oxted Surrey. 10 November 1960. Other than 'The Lavender Hill Mob' for which he won an Oscar Clarke's screenplays include 'The Blue Lamp' and 'The Titchfield Thunderbolt'. For the recipient Barbara Kaye Barbara Kenrick Gowing 1908-1998 writer bookseller and wife of Percy Muir see her obituary by Nicolas Barker in the Independent 12 March 1998. The present letter was written a few days after Clarke's appearance on 31 October on the television programme 'This Is Your Life'. 2pp 12mo. In fair condition aged and worn. Folded once. The letter begins: 'Dear Barbara Many thanks for your kind letter. That certainly was a shock they gave me last Monday! Shirley Long was there in addition to Teddy Wass - it was he who dug up the old “Answers” articles for reproduction. But I wish there had been a little more flavour of those good old Twenties. They went to see Bobby Cooper and he tells me took copious notes from him then for space reasons had to leave out all his reminiscences.' He remembers 'all the incidents' she mentions 'except the girl in the orchestra so I presume she must have been a virgin or she would have registered better'. He discusses the marriage of Dorothy Hargreaves and Humphrey Bradney before turning to his son Michael who 'was recently taken to a dance in Suffolk while staying with friends there and found the hostess to be my old girl friend Betty Hand. It was her daughter's 21st.' From the papers of Barbara Kaye Muir. On letterhead of Tanners Mead, Oxted, Surrey. 10 November 1960. unknown
ref. 26920No place or date given. Photograph Signed 20 x 25Cms good condition. See Image. No place or date given. unknown
1984ref. 295866Universal City Studios 1984. Trade Paperback. Press Packet contains: 10 B/W photographs 8 x 10 inches; 3-pages on Executive Producers Michael and Kathy Fitzgerald; 23-pages Production Notes; 2-pages Moritz Borman; 2-pages Wieland Sculz-Keil; 3-pages Anthony Andrews; 3-pages Jacqueline Bisset; 5-pages Albert Finney; 6-pages John Huston; and 4-pages Cast and Credits. Housed in printed white folder. First edition first printing. Very good copy. Photographs are near fine. Rust near staples on printed pages. Folder with wear stains scuffs. Universal City Studios paperback
1974ref. 135370Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Two vintage black and white still reference photographs from the 1974 film. Both with mimeograph snipes on the verso and one with a red press crop line at the right margin. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and nominated for four others including Best Picture and Best Director. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
