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1954ref. 150531Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Vintage reference photograph of Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan on the set of the 1954 film. Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. Terry Malloy Brando who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for the corrupt boss of the local union Johnny Lee J. Cobb witnesses a murder at the hands of Johnny's men. When he meets the victim's sister Edie Eva Marie Saint he confesses he feels culpable for the murder and Edie introduces him to Father Barry Karl Malden who tries to persuade him to implicate the dock racketeers. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominated for another four. Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and three very small closed tears in margins repaired by two small pieces of cello tape. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 647. Ebert I. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1924ref. 171485Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1924. Vintage reference photograph from the 1924 film showing Zasu Pitts. Mimeo snipe on the verso. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned and edgeworn. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1959ref. 151523Paris: les Films du Carrosse 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph with bottom margin of François Truffaut and Guy Decomble on the set of the 1959 film. "Les Quatre Cents Coups" and "Telerama" stamps on verso. Truffaut's auspicious debut winner of Best Director at Cannes nominated for the Palme d'Or and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 5. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. les Films du Carrosse unknown
1957ref. 151135London: J. Arthur Rank 1957. Early Treatment script dated 1957 for the pilot episode of the 1959-1961 television series here under the working title "The Ghost Squad." Based on the 1959 book by John Gosling which detailed his experience as a member of an undercover team of Scotland Yard detectives. The first of two television series based on Gosling's memoir followed by "The Ghost Squad" in 1961. Beige titled wrappers noted as Treatment on the front wrapper dated 10-4-57. Title page present noted as FULL TREATMENT with credits for screenwriter Michael Gilbert. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown
1970ref. 170873N.p.: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage French grande affiche poster for the 1969 film. Based on director and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. Set and shot on location in Kansas. 45.5 x 82 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine with modest starting to some of the center folds. Warner Brothers unknown
1966ref. 161554Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1966. Vintage reference photograph of screenwriter Leigh Brackett and director Howard Hawks on the set of the 1966 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the verso. Loosely based on Harry Brown's 1960 novel "The Stars in Their Courses." A gunfighter comes to the aid of his old friend now a sheriff to defend a rancher's family. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Paramount Pictures unknown
1953ref. 154829Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film two showing scenes from a beauty pageant and one showing actress Joyce Holden performing a burlesque show for her sorority sisters. Two with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A pair of siblings from a slum neighborhood in New York dream of escaping to a better life but become involved in criminal activities out of desperation and poverty. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown
1954ref. 166109N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the classic 1954 film showing Jacques Tati on the tennis court. Dutch blindstamp on the top right corner and Dutch provenance label on the verso. Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. Shot on location on the coast of France. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 153202Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film together depicting a fight sequence involving James Dean and Julie Harris. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious emotionally troubled father. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Actress 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. Set and shot on location in Monterey and Salinas California. 10 x 8 inches. Slightly faded else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
1971ref. 171973N.p.: N.p. 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film here under the working title "A Perfect Day for Raspberry Ripple." Single annotation in manuscript ink to page 53 circling the page number. Based on Rebecca Morris' 1967 short story "The Good Humor Man" about a young woman who must put her life back together after her husband a college professor leaves her for one of his students. A feminist-minded drama in the vein of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "An Unmarried Woman." Shot on location in San Francisco. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 27 1971 noted as Second Draft with credits for Morris and screenwriter David Seltzer. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1930ref. 167086N.p.: N.p. 1930. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1930 French film one showing actress Catherine Hessling the other showing actor Jean Renoir and Hessling together. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Catherine Hessling's beauty drew her to the attention of Henri Matisse who sent her to model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A romance developed between the fledgling model and Renoir's second son Jean and the couple were married in January of 1920. Hessling appeared in several of Renoir's films before the couple's divorce in 1931 including Renoir's first feature-length film "The Whirlpool of Fate" 1925 and his 1926 adaptation of Émile Zola's "Nana." 6.75 x 9 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 152866N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard pulling actress Mireille Darc's hair on the set of the 1967 film. With the stamp of still photographer and actress Anne Wiazemsky on the verso. One of Godard's most misanthropic films about a loveless bourgeois couple who fantasize about killing each other while on a long road trip to visit the woman's parents with the intent of securing an inheritance. Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. 9.25 x 6.75 inches. Light creasing to the bottom left corner else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 167213N.p.: N.p. 1972. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. Early draft preceding the film's release by six years. A Z-budget cult horror film about a vampire who is invited to be the guest of honor at a horror convention in San Francisco. Director and screenwriter John Stanley served as the horror science fiction and fantasy critic for the "San Francisco Chronicle" for over three decades. Shot on location in Oakland. Yellow card wrappers with title and credits for Stanley and screenwriter Kenn Davis on a typed label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present dated April 26 1972 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for Davis and Stanley. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication rectos only with a single undated pink blank leaf bound in at the rear of the script. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. Thrower Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 132510Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to actress Tresa Hughes with her annotations and yellow revision leaves throughout. Rita a middle aged New York City homemaker finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life as well as her relationships with her mother her eye doctor husband her alienated daughter and estranged son. Hughes was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress for her role in the 1961 production of "The Devil's Advocate." Black titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Stern. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Stern. 112 leaves mimeograph duplication with yellow revision pages throughout all dated 10/6/72. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold screw brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1961ref. 149748Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 film showing actors Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe outside a Dayton bar holding a hatful of collected cash bets to pay Montgomery Clift's rodeo fee. With the stamp of Les Artistes Associes on the verso along with a stamp of a large capital "S." The final completed film for Gable and Monroe before their deaths. Notoriously a trying endeavor for the actress who was struggling with her drug problem and pending divorce from Arthur Miller and would often fail to show up to the set and for director John Huston who would drink and occasionally fall asleep while filming. Gable performed all of his own stunts then suffered a heart attack only two days after filming ended and died ten days later. Set and shot on location in Dayton Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1964ref. 151602Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Vintage press kit for the 1964 film here called an "editor's portfolio." Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 20 black and white photographs and one gathering of promotional reading material. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1961 play. An alcoholic former priest finds himself caught between the attentions of three women while leading a failing tour of Puerto Vallarta. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one. Set and shot on location in Mismaloya and Puerto Vallarta Mexico the latter of which became a popular tourist destination after the film's release. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1995ref. 172790Los Angeles: Double Down Productions 1995. Third Draft script for the 1996 film. A buddy comedy following a group of unemployed actors living in Los Angeles largely concerning their romantic and sexual misadventures. Shot on a shoestring budget the film proved a breakaway hit and launched the careers of actors Jon Favreau Heather Graham and Vince Vaughn. Green titled wrappers dated Dec. 13 1994 with credit for Favreau on the front wrapper. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Double Down Productions unknown
1959ref. 151413Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1959. Estimating script for the 1960 film on yellow stock except title/distribution page white and second "This Script Is Not Final ." page pink copy belonging to uncredited crew member Nick Bova with name in manuscript ink on front wrapper and annotations in manuscript red pencil graphite pencil and ink throughout. Based on the 1960 novel by Hank Searls. The troubled and complicated lives of passengers and crew of a commercial airliner and a US Navy jet are examined as severe weather and a malfunctioning radio bring the two planes on an inextricable course toward collision. Shot on location in Washington DC and Naval Air Station North Island Coronado California. Beige titled wrappers noted as ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 60 dated June 5 1959. Title page integral with Distribution page receipt intact dated 6/5/59 noted as ESTIMATING. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1970ref. 169000N.p.: N.p. 1970. A small archive of a vintage French moyenne poster and nine vintage French lobby cards for the French release of the 1968 film here under the French release title "L'éperon brûlant." The first of director Lee Frost and producer Bob Cresse's "sex westerns" wherein a Mexican stable boy kidnaps a rancher's wife in revenge for the rape and killing of his sister years earlier. Set in Texas in 1869. Moyenne poster: 22.75 x 30 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with some light creasing and pinholes at the extremities and two small paper tape repairs to the verso at the top and bottom of the vertical fold. Bright and unfaded. Nine French lobby cards: 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the extremities. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 165096N.p.: N.p. 1972. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. When mob associates turn up dead at the hands of a ruthless businessman an enforcer is sent to Kansas to investigate. He finds a man who is using the local town to operate a ring of corruption: drugs bootlegging and female sexual slavery. The first film credit for Sissy Spacek. Set in Kansas City shot on location in Canada Missouri and Kansas. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good to Very Good plus moderately curled one with ink residue on the bottom left corner. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 171784N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1958 French film noir showing a gloved Julien Tavernier carefully staging his lover's husband's death as a suicide. The film's new cinematic realism was both indebted and pivotal to the French New Wave and skyrocketed the career of Moreau whose disaffected makeup-less performance was the scandal of Paris for months following the film's release. 12 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 335. Grant France. Selby France. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 162324N.p.: N.p. 1960. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film all four showing actress Anita Ekberg. Federico Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three others including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 170359N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1961 film showing Clark Gable mugging for the camera while Marilyn Monroe smiles at his side and Eli Wallach stands behind them on the left. Provenance label and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A bleak haunting film exploring the loss of independence about a recent divorcée who enters into an unstable relationship with an aging cowboy whom she meets in the Nevada desert. Shot on location in Reno and Dayton Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 151283N.p.: N.p. 1971. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1971 French sexploitation film. A provincial French woman falls down an elevator shaft and survives but finds herself uncontrollably addicted to sex following the incident. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Bier 934. N.p. unknown
2011ref. 167782Universal City: Universal City Studios / Paqu Films 2011. Draft script for the 2012 film. Copy belonging to still photographer François Duhamel with his name watermarked on several script pages. Based on the 2010 novel by Don Winslow about two cannabis growers in Southern California who work together to confront the enforcers of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. Shot on location in the Pacific Palisades. Housed in a generic black three-ring binder. Title page present dated 05/01/11 noted as production No. 00K64 with credits for Winslow and screenwriters Shane Salerno and Oliver Stone. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between July 7 and September 6 2011. Pages about Fine binder Near Fine. Universal City Studios / Paqu Films unknown
