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1956ref. 149458N.p.: Newtown Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph of actress Carroll Baker on the set of the 1956 film. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1946 one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Unsatisfactory Supper." A spoiled virginal teenage girl is caught between the unfulfilled passions of her middle-aged husband and his amorous business rival a Sicilian with a monopoly on local cotton plantations. Set in the fictional Tiger Tail County Mississippi shot on location in Benoit Mississippi and Stockton California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Newtown Productions unknown
1955ref. 144801Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialogue director Guy Thomajan. Typed annotations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Jo Van Fleet would go on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the film was nominated for three more Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and the first ever posthumous acting nomination in Academy history for Dean's lead performance. Images 4.5 x 3.5 inches on 11 x 8 inch sheets with two hole punches to the left edge as called for. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
1968ref. 153217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage reference photograph of director Joseph Losey in conversation with actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow between takes on the set of the 1968 film. To the left is script supervisor Pamela Davies giving instruction. Stamp of photographer Barrie Pattison on the verso. An impoverished woman meets a young girl who claims to be her long-lost daughter believed to have died in a drowning accident years before. Set and shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with two short closed tears to the right edge. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown
1989ref. 153132N.p.: N.p. 1989. Fifth Draft script for the 1990 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the title page noting No. 59. Two dopey small-time crooks disguise themselves as nuns and hide out in a convent in an attempt to avoid their murderous former boss. Shot on location in London. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 22 February 1989 noted as Fifth Draft with credits for director and screenwriter Jonathan Lynn. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/3/89 and 3/3/89. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 159899N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage matte-finish reference photograph from the 1962 film showing director Éric Rohmer at the far right. Annotations in manuscript ink and provenance label on the verso. Upon hearing his promised inheritance has been given to a cousin a man sinks into despair and indigence-only to later hear that the cousin has passed away and he will finally receive the inheritance. Rohmer's first feature film shot in the summer of 1959 but not released until 1962 and much-lauded by other luminaries of the French New Wave. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 151236N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film showing actress Lynn Hancock. An unpopular orphaned military cadet seeks revenge on his bullies by summoning demonic spirits through his computer. Shot on location in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown
1924ref. 156300N.p.: N.p. 1924. Vintage reference photograph from the 1924 film showing actor Gibson Gowland in character as McTeague. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear along the bottom edge and a small toned spot near the bottom left corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 150743N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage portrait photograph of Erich von Stroheim from 1926 released as a publicity still for the 1928 film. Newspaper clipping of photograph with two "DEC 19 1934" stamps affixed to verso and an "Erich von Stroheim" stamp and "Erich von Stroheim Goldwyn director" printed on verso. 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. Prince Nicki an impoverished aristocrat is in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter Mitzi but is forced to marry Cecilia the daughter of a wealthy factory owner. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with two small chips one on top left corner and one on center right margin. National Film Registy. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 155306Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1943 film showing director Sam Wood speaking with actors Ingrid Bergman Lilo Yarsen Katina Paxinou and Gray Cooper on the set. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of PIX Agency and the Westport Public Library. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between émigré photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel which follows the experiences of an American fighting against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War and his relationship with a young guerrilla fighter. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actress for Katina Paxinou. Set and shot on location in Spain. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Photograph laminated presumably as issued else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1958ref. 155788Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1958. Vintage photograph of a camera crew capturing a shot of actor Spencer Tracy and child actor Felipe Pazos on the set of the 1958 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a stamp crediting Warner photographer Jack Woods. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two more including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1950ref. 160936Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film. Based on the 1923 short story "My Old Man" by Ernest Hemingway. John Garfield stars as a crooked washed-up expatriate jockey on the run from a racketeer for not throwing a race while trying to redeem himself for the sake of his son. Remade in 1979 as the CBS television film "My Old Man" directed by John Erman and starring Kristy McNichol and Warren Oates. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1968ref. 163705Burbank CA: Warner Brothers - Seven Arts 1968. Vintage two-color banner poster for US release of the 1966 Italian film printed in black and a bold fluorescent orange. One of only a short run of highly-regarded films released by Warner Brothers-Seven Arts between 1967 and 1969. Rare in this size format. Loosely based on the early sixteenth century novella "Belfagor arcidiavolo" by Niccolò Machiavelli. Vittorio Gassman stars as Belfagor a devil sent back to earth to stoke a war between Rome and Florence in medieval Italy to bolster the number of hell's incoming souls but quickly becomes distracted by amorous feelings for the beautiful Claudine Auger as the Maddalena de'Medici. Starring Mickey Rooney as Adramalek a Puckish demon invisible to everyone but Belfagor. Set in and shot on location in Tuscany Sicily and Rome Italy. 118.5 x 24 inches. Light rubbing and edgewear else Near Fine. Bright and unfaded. Note: The fluorescent orange color can not be reproduced in a photograph and is a much brighter orange than depicted in the image. Warner Brothers - Seven Arts unknown
1976ref. 172538N.p.: Cinema International 1976. Collection of fourteen vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 film. With mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and a Cinema International stamp on the versos. Based on the 1941 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A studio executive during the golden age of Hollywood tries to prevent unionization on his movie sets and has an affair with an engaged actress. Nominated for one Academy Award. Set in Hollywood. Twelve photographs 8 x 10 inches two photographs trimmed 10 x 7 inches. About Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Weldon 1983. Cinema International unknown
1963ref. 149457N.p.: Les Films Marceau-Cocinor 1963. Eight vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1963 French-Italian sexploitation film. A pseudo-journalistic view into the world of Italian sadomasochism in the 1960s. Four photographs 9.5 x 7 inches four photographs 7 x 4.75 inches. Very Good plus. Les Films Marceau-Cocinor unknown
1973ref. 164212N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 French surrealist film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. After being falsely accused of murdering his mother an epileptic man goes on the run into the desert where he meets a mystical hermit and becomes involved in a circus. The second feature-length film by noted Spanish artist playwright and writer Fernando Arrabal. Approximately 7 x 5 inches with wide bottom margins. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 154934London: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage British program for the 1972 film with black and white and color film still photographs throughout. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning three for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba and shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled in illustrated card wrappers. Very Good plus. Wrappers with light rubbing overall light horizontal creasing at spine fold and a bump to the top right corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader 16. Paramount Pictures unknown
1973ref. 152340Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 French film two showing actress Alexandra Stewart and one showing Stewart and Jean-Pierre Leaud. With provenance stamps and manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased with pinholes to the corners. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. Warner Brothers unknown
1966ref. 150657N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph with narrow top margin from the 1966 film. "Cinema 66" and "Rahrenheit 451" stamps on verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Truffaut's fifth film set in a dystopian future in which all books are burned and free thought is discouraged. Set in and shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 150812N.p.: N.p. 1962. Eight vintage borderless reference studio still photographs five with bottom margins from the 1962 film. One with cropping annotation in blue and red holigraph pencil and remainder of label since removed on verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. One of the founding films of the French New Wave examining a long relationship between two men and an impulsive young woman before during and after the First World War. Shot on location throughout France. One photograph 9.25 x 7 inches the other seven photographs 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 281. Ebert II. Schrader Canon Fodder 27. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 150552N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut and Laurence Ragon from the 1978 film. Layout annotations in manuscript ink "La Chambre Verte" stamp and "June 78" stamp all on verso. Based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James with elements of James' 1903 novella "The Beast in the Jungle" and his 1896 short story "The Way it Came." One of Truffaut's least successful films but also one of his most personal and critically acclaimed a meditation on death and on an individual's inability to live in the face of it. Truffaut stars as Julien Davenne a journalist who writes obituaries in an unfashionable journal obsesses about the loss of his wife Julie and those members of his WWI squad lost in the war which lead him to build a shrine as a memorial so that they may never be forgotten. The third and final film which Truffaut would both direct and star. Shot on location in Calvados and Eure France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 153961Various cities: Les Films du Carrosse / SEDIF 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director François Truffaut and his longtime cinematographer Raoul Coutard setting up a shot with actress Françoise Dorleac on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess. Truffaut and Coutard worked together on a number of films including "Breathless" 1960 "Shoot the Piano Player" 1960 "Jules and Jim" 1962 and "The Bride Wore Black" 1968. Set and shot on location in Portugal and France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. Les Films du Carrosse / SEDIF unknown
1985ref. 152301Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1985. Revised Final Draft script for the 1986 television film seen here under the working title "Stolen Dreams" with an annotation on the front wrapper amending the title to "Killer in the Mirror." The film originally aired on March 31 1986 on NBC. Director-screenwriter Frank De Felitta has a storied career as a novelist screenwriter and director of horror films and thrillers with highlights including "The Entity" 1982 "Audrey Rose" 1977 "ZPG" 1972 and "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" 1981. A woman's evil twin marries her sister's wealthy beloved murders him fakes her own death and attempts to frame her sister for the murder. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 26 1985 noted as REV. FINAL DRAFT with credits for director-screenwriter Frank De Felitta. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/27/85 and 01/27/86. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1972ref. 160515N.p.: N.p. 1972. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 film both showing actors Patricia Collins and Jerry Orbach. Based on Frederick Exley's classic 1968 novel about a middle-aged alcoholic writer who suffers a mental breakdown. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in New York and Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 153219N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of director Fritz Lang in conversation with actress Anne Baxter on the set of the 1953 film noir. Mimeo snipe to the verso. Based on the 1951 novella by Vera Caspary. A telephone operator wakes up with a hangover and a creeping feeling that she might have murdered her date the previous night. The first installment in Lang's "newspaper noir" trilogy followed by "While the City Sleeps" 1956 and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" 1956. Set in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1937ref. 159941Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1937. Vintage reference photograph of director Fritz Lang and a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Sylvia Sidney on the set of the 1937 film. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. One of Lang's greatest American films and an important film noir antecedent very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it notably "They Live By Night" 1948 "Gun Crazy" 1950 and "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
